Lawrence Brown

Author: Lawrence Brown

  • Spark File: Spring Edition ’26

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    Lawrence Brown

    🧨 Taking this queue from Steven Johnson, these usually sit in a private note but it’s nice to get them out in the open. Also wondering how an agent could co-manage these with me.

  • E Ink Generative Art App

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    Lawrence Brown

    I’ve made an abstract art generator that sends images to my e-ink display next to my desk. I bought the e-ink display just over a year ago, I messed around with putting calendars, task lists, weather and other typical ambient info onto it. But, it always felt a bit weird, a bit dystopian, it became…

  • Sideload.app

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    Lawrence Brown

    I’ve been working on making an app that syncs my local Roon* music library to my phone. A few days ago I got the foundation working: a server on macOS that offers up the files and an iOS app bringing those files down with track listings and player views. Read about that first pass here.…

  • Roon’s Missing Pieces

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    Lawrence Brown

    I love Roon. It’s overpriced, but wonderfully so. In recent years it’s gone from strength to strength, stability issues are near zero now, it’s lightning fast compared to it’s early years. No real complaints. But there are a couple of small snags. ▲ Vibing RoonSync with Claude Code, Xcode and Typescript server. Roon macOS Volume…

  • Inventory House

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    Lawrence Brown

    Five years ago, when we moved into our Hackney house I collected a bunch of homeware retailers, furniture designers, suppliers and so on. They ended up in an Airtable, kinda useful. But not visually useful. Now, I’ve made a dedicated listing site for homeware. www.inventory.house I’d been kicking around the idea of Inventory Supplies for…

  • Notes: 2 of 13. 2024

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    Lawrence Brown

    This is the second block of week notes. Read the first one here. I’ve been consistent in taking notes daily/weekly and I’m still finding the process rewarding. Writing up these summaries of four week blocks I’m reminded of the Bill Gates quote: People overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they…

  • Hello, Gutenberg!

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    Lawrence Brown

    I’ve just been pulling, pushing, redirecting and querying. And I’m now live with WordPress Gutenberg on all my primary domains and sites. Until today this site and others were running a soupy mess of custom fields for publishing and laborious processes for design changes. Site transfers are the grotty and anxious work of websites. Good…

  • Notes: 1 of 13. 2024

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    Lawrence Brown

    I’m experimenting with writing private week notes. It’s been a rewarding practice for the last four weeks. Purging my mind when it’s overwhelmed, forming better memories of what happened over a week, what I’ve been thinking, what I consumed, who I hung out with and so on. The shift from only journalling to clear the…

  • Inventory Supplies

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    Lawrence Brown

    Continuing with my no-code experiments I moved onto tackling a self initiated project that has been getting dusty. Within a couple of days I recreated a “close enough” version of Inventory Supplies — a database of technical, functional and beautiful products. I’ve made this website three times now. Yeah. First it was a WordPress Advanced Custom…

  • No code

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    Lawrence Brown

    Last year at Phillips we created a new division of the business with the goal to sell art in the middle market. Limited editions of works that could be easily purchased without auction. There’s a pickle of systems in auction businesses and building an ecom platform from scratch or deeply integrating one would have delayed…