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THE BUILD LOG
Field Dispatches
The KN-86 is being built in public: one working prototype, a runtime, a language, four launch cartridges, and a fiction wrapped around all of it. The Field Dispatch is the running record. Each issue covers what shipped on the device, what the fiction is doing, and one piece of design work.
Dispatches go out by email first and land here afterward. Join the list to get the next one by email.
TRANSMISSION 04 / 15.06.26
I open-sourced the language I made for the deck.
KEC Lisp goes public: a small Lisp built on Fe, with a core, a standard library, and a CLI you can run on your laptop today. Plus why Lisp, and a note about fun.
TRANSMISSION 03 / 08.05.26
New keys, new music, and the world behind both.
The custom Lisp keycaps arrive. Idleware starts releasing a track every Friday. And the bigger project behind the device gets a name: Kinoshita World.
TRANSMISSION 02 / 01.05.26
Attract mode: a love letter to the empty store shelf.
An essay on what a 1988 machine does when nobody is looking, the .kn86clip format, and the four launch reels the deck plays in the dark.
TRANSMISSION 01 / 24.04.26
The deck starts talking to itself.
The first dispatch. Attract mode ships, the font gains 161 glyphs to form the KN-86 Code Page, and a pirate broadcaster named Marty Glitch enters the docket.
Three Channels
Three ways to follow the build. Pick one, or take all three.
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THE FIELD DISPATCH
The build log, mailed. What shipped on the device, what the fiction is doing, and one piece of design work per issue. Sent on Fridays when there is something to say.
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IDLEWARE
The deck’s soundtrack. Cyberpunk trip-hop chiptune, slow and instrumental, released under a name from the fiction. New track every Friday, with visuals in the same amber terminal style as the deck.
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THE AMBER CIRCUIT
The first Deckline novelette. Wreck has 180 credits, three days of rent, and a device that shouldn’t still exist. Gibson-influenced cyberpunk noir, about 12,000 words.
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