Tiny experiment
Building a public lab notebook
Turning tiny technical experiments into reviewed public field notes.
Mission
Create a durable way to learn in public without publishing raw chats or private thinking.
Commitment
Keep experiments small, review every public note, and publish only useful traces.
This experiment is about the publishing system itself. The aim is to make small technical experiments visible without turning the site into a raw transcript archive.
The working rule is simple: private sessions can be messy, but public notes should be short, reviewed, and useful. Each note should leave a trace of the mission, what changed, what was learned, and what the next small test will be.
Interesting aspects
What this is teaching me
- A public experiment needs a smaller surface than a private chat session.
- The repo should be the durable source of truth; chat is better as a thinking space.
- A repeatable prompt or skill can protect the tone, privacy boundary, and publishing format.
Field notes
Reviewed public entries
Choosing the durable layer
Decided that the site repo should hold polished experiment notes, while chats stay private.
- Astro can preserve the existing static CSS while adding Markdown-driven experiment pages.
- A lab notebook structure fits the current wolkengrube.de design better than a social feed.
- A repo-backed skill is a better durable workflow than relying on ChatGPT canvas alone.