Small means

These sources do a lot with little. A song fits in a URL. A family assistant fits in one table. Some argue that restraint is itself the method.

Part of Society. 16 sources from 8 subjects. A source can carry several themes. These tags are this wiki's own reading, not claims the sources make.

How To Train a Generative Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop With 6GB of VRAM

Not stated (published on the personal site zhinit.dev, GitHub user zhinit). From Audio models and analysis.

A blog post on training a kick drum generator on a home GPU.

Synthesizing Music from JSON

Dominic Szablewski (PhobosLab). From Audio models and analysis.

A blog post introducing pl_synth, a tiny music synthesizer and tracker for C and JavaScript.

Finite State Machines in Forth

J.V. Noble, Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics, University of Virginia. From Compilers and interpreters.

A technical note on building finite state machines in Forth from a state table.

Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page

Dave Gauer (ratfactor.com). From Compilers and interpreters.

A long illustrated essay tracing the history of Forth and how a Forth system works.

Langjam Gamejam: Build a programming language then make a game with it

Posted by birdculture, with replies from many commenters. From Compilers and interpreters.

A Hacker News thread about a jam where entrants build a language, then a game.

Stevens: a hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs

Geoffrey Litt. From Databases and storage.

A blog post describing a family assistant built on one SQLite table and scheduled jobs.

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

Simon Willison. From File-based agent memory.

A blog post arguing that Claude Skills, folders of Markdown instructions, matter more than MCP.

BELTRUNNER: game design postmortem

Matt Sephton (gingerbeardman). From Games and game design.

A developer explains the design choices behind an arcade game made for a game jam.

Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games

Posted by achtaitaipai, with replies from many commenters. From Games and game design.

A Hacker News thread where the creator of Odyc.js answers questions about the library.

Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers

Celso Martinho, Ruskin Constant, Rui Figueira and Luís Duarte, Cloudflare. From Harnesses and agent loops.

A Cloudflare post announcing a lightweight browser built for AI agents on its Workers platform.

Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%

Dimitri Mazmanov, Principal Product Manager, Spotify. From Harnesses and agent loops.

A Spotify post on sending bulk file reading to a cheaper model.

Stop Overengineering Your Agent Harness

Hugo Bowne-Anderson (Vanishing Gradients). From Harnesses and agent loops.

An essay arguing that agent harnesses should be only as complex as the job needs.

Structured CoT: Shorter Reasoning with a Grammar File

Kaya Omer (named in the citation block; the blog is called andthattoo). From Harnesses and agent loops.

A blog post testing whether a grammar can shorten a local model's reasoning.

Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM

Posted by kashifr, with replies from many commenters. From Language models and training.

A Hacker News thread on a Hugging Face post announcing the SmolLM3 language model.

Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates

Not stated. From Systems and hardware.

A write-up of two chip demos built for the Tiny Tapeout 8 competition.

ZX Spectrum: Experimenting With 1-Bit Sound

Michael Martin. From Systems and hardware.

A blog post recording attempts to play samples and chords through the ZX Spectrum beeper.