Top Artifacts

Making artifacts, whilst building a toolbox.

  • ASCII Tree - Instant 'ASCII Tree' from a file/folder collection
  • LCARS - A Star Trek TNG User Interface
  • Small Sounds - A compact mini-language for foley sounds

About Safer Centaurs

Building open source artifacts - using small, composable pieces - and sharing how I'm using AI to get more done.

Code is on GitHub. Discussions on Discord.

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Safer Centaurs

I build small tools with AI assistance and write about the process. Announcements are artifacts ready to use. Spike solutions are work in progress.

Latest Posts

OmniChart

Announcing OmniChart - A Morphing Chart Set

January 19, 2026 📣 Announcement

I needed 'the standard' chart types, pie chart, line chart, bar chart, spider plot, and decided to do them all in one.

ASCII Tree

Announcing ASCII Tree - A documentation tool

January 1, 2026 📣 Announcement

Finding the box drawing │,├, ─,└ symbols and putting them together to make a tree pattern is fiddly and takes time - a perfect challenge for a small tool. Claude one-shotted it with a single prompt.

Small Sounds

Announcing Small Sounds - A Sound Effects DSL

December 8, 2025 📣 Announcement

I didn't want to upload lots of different mp3 files. Instead I wanted to generate short simple sound effect client side. This is the result.

LCARS

Announcing LCARS - A Star Trek UI

November 4, 2025 📣 Announcement

The LCARS user interface from Star Trek TNG actually has some desirable properties as a user interface.

Round and Chevron Ends

Work in Progress - End Shapes

October 16, 2025 ⚡️ Spike Solution

AIs struggle with understanding shapes. Here I got Claude to make tags with the end shapes I wanted.

Mining Base on Mars

Work in Progress - Martian Base

September 12, 2025 ⚡️ Spike Solution

Cards are a fundamental part of the big diagram making code project I am working on. Here a spike solution begins to rework the card ideas, via a clicker-style Mars-base game.

This spike solution exploration is also part of exploring visual ways to track resource exchanges. The code co-produced with AI is a small step in progressing a card based dashboard.