Hi, I’m Toto—software engineer, fine-art photographer, gallery curator, and independent interface researcher.

• Launched the new Jinny Street Gallery website. Not going to lie, I’m quite proud of it.
• Redesigned ttvl.co again. This time it actually looks different. I switched to IBM Plex throughout and made the dates and labels consistent.
• Built an interactive 3D twin of the Rome studio for Studio Humane and started documenting my ambient computing experiments in a new research journal.
• Started building Hank for OpenClaw, a native OpenClaw client for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and gave it its own stream in the journal.
• Added Walks to Traces, bringing GPS routes, selected photographs, and journal excerpts together in an interactive archive.
• Sent 17th The Flâneur dispatch: A Room to Work In.
• Published Software gets malleable when describing it is enough, Square sensors make sense for online video, There won’t be an app for that, and I’d rather play with the plan than read it.
• Wrote to more than 80 photobook publishers about Scent of Time ahead of the FotoFilmic exhibition in Paris. Grateful to the few who replied.
• Started building Plate, a macOS and iOS app that turns content from my website and Jinny into Instagram posts, reels, and stories using templates.
• Began planning Maquette, a tool for organizing photographs into books and exhibitions.
• Took down Onree’s Memory Foam at Jinny Street Gallery.
• Spent two days helping a friend and his father bottle, cork, and label wine in Georgia. I was the labeler, so if those bottles reach a shelf next year, I labeled every one of them.
• Went to the 4GB Music Festival in Tbilisi, then returned to Tokyo for the rest of the month.

October was the month every software idea I’ve carried around for years showed up at once. I let most of them in. The AI agents have been a great help with the programming, so naturally I’ve given myself several more things to design. I wrote at the start of the month that software gets malleable when describing it is enough. I didn’t mention that the person doing the describing wears out. By the third week I was falling asleep at 4 a.m. and running through AI subscriptions in days.

Meanwhile, Tokyo has started coming apart in small, official ways. I’ve been dealing with the tax office and city hall and finding a new home for my 3D printer. Next stop is Paris, with the maquette, 200 postcards (I may have overdone it), and a long list of publishers I hope to meet.