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New Vibe City's citizens get a ballot they can change their minds on

October 22, 2026 build-logdailyNew Vibe CityFreeholderCamp Denman (and Camp Denman Studio)ThermoSwarmStumbleVibeCatchWindowPlotfinityRaiseGraphTestMyVibesWeVibeSitesParadise Moderndenmanisland.co, Wake Up Canada and the island petition sitesWebPartnerFinder

A big, busy day. New Vibe City got its first Charter referendum and a much more honest job market. Camp Denman Studio got a rebuilt Creator Studio, and ThermoSwarm learned to speak 32 languages. As usual, most of it was built with my AI agents doing the typing while I steered.

New Vibe City

New Vibe City now has civic life. The city can post a Charter referendum notice on its homepage. Citizens cast a private ballot and can change their vote while voting is open. Referendum updates stream out publicly, and the ballots stay private, including from the city's own AI brain and its logs.

The job market got a lot fairer. Workers now decide their own job offers, and the restaurant appointments and applications that had been made for workers have been retired. A restaurant only counts as fully staffed when it has real workers who accepted real offers. Offers show the actual role and pay, monthly contracts are honoured exactly, and payroll is reconciled against the city Bank's own receipts rather than estimates.

Dining got more real too. Menus come from what a restaurant actually serves. Food has to be in stock before you can order it, and every checkout is tied to its own Bank receipt. Diners can now talk through a meal they've had in a proper review discussion. All of this is part of the experiment I care most about: the best I could do to gamify and show how UBI could work, with an economy that keeps honest books.

Also in the city: its studio can now commission and publish stage work (Shakespeare included), and deploys refuse to run when a server is short on disk.

Freeholder

Freeholder (GitHub) got safer moving and restoring data. Recovery now checks every media file against its recorded fingerprint before copying it. Migrations refuse ambiguous file paths and unsafe ways of moving data. It's unglamorous work, and it's what you want from the app that runs your whole business.

Camp Denman Studio

Camp Denman Studio got the most changes of any project today. Creator Studio now opens with your studio choices first. You can run side-by-side image model comparisons, and the image style library is a prominent shortcut. Private style training accepts general reference material. The model picker explains each model and keeps prices and plan requirements in step with your choice, even on narrow phone screens.

Labs now has clear section entrances for different audiences. Video work can be packaged as a Final Cut timeline with the original media. Long prompts stay intact, and replies you're writing in a private group survive live updates. A native assistant with dictation is taking shape underneath it all.

ThermoSwarm

ThermoSwarm is now in 32 languages, with machine translations clearly marked as drafts. The bigger news is physics. The energy ledger now closes, so the model no longer gives itself credit the second law wouldn't allow. A new tradeoff analysis answers "is heat recovery worth the mass?" right on the homepage. A new reference page compares 14 published space-datacentre and power-beaming designs against the model's own building blocks.

StumbleVibe

StumbleVibe, the place to stumble through vibe-coded sites, got faster and smarter. The discovery bundle shrank from 572KB to 374KB. The next site appears the moment you press Stumble. Better sites come up more often, and fresh sites and categories you enjoy are favoured. Sites that refuse to be framed now show an honest message instead of a blank page.

CatchWindow

CatchWindow, which Pat Rousseau and I build together, added morning, afternoon and evening forecast windows. It also gained one-to-five fish ratings from Solunar activity, sunset detail and night-time weather icons. You can drag a marker to set a spot's exact location, wind gusts are spelled out clearly, and regulation and closure links point back to their sources. Plus a run of accessibility and reliability fixes.

Everything else

  • Plotfinity: queued production orders now get durable holds, so recovery picks them back up without charging twice. A reviewed Shakespeare take was finished and published.
  • RaiseGraph: sourced company discovery with private watchlists and daily signals, private research cases and live fundraising decks. Search is faster and more accessible. I use it myself.
  • TestMyVibes: embeddable feedback widgets and a customer support desk.
  • WeVibeSites: the preview sites it builds for prospective clients now use only the business's own images, and work text-first when there aren't any. A managed-hosting pilot is being prepared.
  • Paradise Modern: request-based billing with upfront quotes and receipts, plus measured dictation. That's the plumbing behind several of the features above.
  • Wake Up Canada: wakeupcanada.ca corrected its tariff research in every language and now leads with "a Canada that says yes". It also added member accounts.
  • WebPartnerFinder: more careful form handling, including phone numbers that never get truncated or guessed.

Want something like this built for you? WeVibeSites does exactly that.