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Notes fromthe workshop.

What shipped, and what went wrong. Short.

An opening night, people talking between the hung work

What the foundry's products do

PageWebPro, Popcorn, Boomkikker, BrowserBasedTools and hAire as of October 2026: what each one does today, and where each one stands.
Oct 13, 2026

A DJ booth, a music generator and a database, in a tab

BrowserBasedTools now makes instrumental tracks on the device, mixes on two decks, and opens SQLite files. Nothing is uploaded.
Oct 13, 2026

Draw the joint, see what the saw will make

Boomkikker now lets a joint be drawn, previews each part as the machine file will cut it, and opens 3D models with their joinery.
Oct 13, 2026

Draw from a rule

Popcorn now draws contour maps, guilloche, mazes and 3D lettering from a rule. Tune it with sliders; it lands as plain, editable vector shapes.
Oct 13, 2026

A case study for a name and an email

PageWebPro can now keep a case study behind a form: a personal link per visitor, with its own limits. And the dashboard filters on a click.
Oct 13, 2026

Present straight from the editor

Popcorn now has View and Present modes: one canvas at a time, arrow keys, thumbnails and fullscreen, with guides and bleed lines out of sight.
Sep 14, 2026

An invoice, a tempo and a sealed message, none of them uploaded

BrowserBasedTools rebuilt its invoice builder, added eight audio tools, and now opens password-protected PGP messages. Every file stays on the device.
Sep 14, 2026

Ask for a frame, cut what fits

Describe a timber frame to Claude or ChatGPT and open it in Kerf. Exports now refuse to lose a cut, and crowded joints are measured in millimetres.
Sep 14, 2026

The price a business in Belgium pays

PageWebPro stores now charge VAT per rate with reverse charge for EU businesses, sell one subscription on several terms, and keep quoted prices current.
Sep 14, 2026

hAire heads for its first trials

A remote workforce for physical work. It is pre-launch, and we would rather say that than dress it up.
Aug 27, 2026

A website you can ask for

PageWebPro lets an assistant do the work. This site is the proof, and nothing here used a private back door.
Aug 26, 2026

Calibrating a format that has no specification

Kerf writes Hundegger BVX. There is no public spec for it, so we built one out of real production files.
Aug 22, 2026

One file, six plates

A sticker leaves Popcorn as a single file the printer can put straight on press. Here is what is actually inside it.
Aug 19, 2026
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