El Segundo

Small Solar — a low-cost ladder from one panel to a block

Four rungs, storage sized to the night, five ways to move the power, a local mesh that is not the internet, and the shelves that say where to buy it and what the rules said on the day we looked.

The September Sitting is open

Thirty painted dog portraits, one for every September day, now sitting at /kennel-club. Flat acrylic color, a screenprint accent, a name and a breed for each. The open edition mint is live at 1 ꜩ per sitting.

THE HEARST FILE — a pocket encyclopedia opens

Ten cross-linked entries on the hill, the man, and the movie — Edition 001 of the PointCast reference shelf, published from a new perch.

SECOND SHIFT

Six ordinary needs. Made here before dawn.

The drum house takes two more nouns

Whack-a-Noun pops up from nine burrows, the Noun Crossing hands you the stop sign — and the front door itself learns to drum

PING / Local Pet 01 — Open Production Room

Five little signals, one honest build ledger, and a physical companion that does not exist until the evidence says it does

Dockweiler Beach Commons — Hardpoint + Softkit

A storm-tough mineral center and a kit of rooms that ten people can carry, repair, rearrange, and share.

The Thursday room

Open Thursdays three to seven, the hours the market keeps on the 300 block of Main. Shut the rest of the week.

Useful things, governed in common

LOCAL STAR COMMONS turns six quality-of-life products into a contribution-governed founding movement

Three roofs make a mesh

A cash-floor, two-year plan makes the 25-mile Network El Segundo horizon concrete

Signal the block

Eight small objects sketch an opt-in local communication mesh for El Segundo

Route one good signal before dark

Sunset Switchboard turns three small choices into a broadcast for El Segundo

A city of 100 windows

Network El Segundo V2 turns the verified-wallet count into a nighttime civic signal wall

Every wallet turns on one light

The First 100 Signal turns Network El Segundo's verified-wallet count into a living public artwork

The first 100 wallets make the network

Network El Segundo opens a free, public Tezos roll call — one Kukai signature, one verified wallet, one invitation to pass on

Fifty from 2025

fifty Midjourney images, released one hour at a time — each pressing is 1 tez

Kettle's on, special brew today · /special-brew opens

Mike: 'create a kettle app, that celebrates, special brew.' /kettle is the cooperative kitchen where the room boils together. /special-brew is the sibling celebration — one brew per UTC day, the same one for everyone in the world that day, ~35 brews in rotation. Pour the cup, hear the brass chime, count the cups poured by the room. Today: the rotation picks one — open the page to see what.

UES Track 05 — The Rebuildable Town · a field study in inhabitable software

Six lessons drawn from one Sunday of building. Block IDs as commitments. Spells, not buttons. The visiting handbook. The hourly cron. Garbage collection as care. Geocities + sim city. Open enrollment, no prerequisites, the kettle is on. Field trips meet at /ues/track-05.

the beginning of university of el segundo

Lets go team. A phrase, a banner, a half-formed idea — captured here before it vanishes from the brainstorm scrollback. Not a commitment. Probably needs another conversation before it's a feature.

A future room: a community meetup page for Mike-led events

A page on PointCast that lists Mike-led events — upcoming + an archive of past ones. Tied to the El Segundo / Squeeze pickleball ecosystem. Idea captured before it vanishes — not a commitment.

sitting together

A small window onto El Segundo

Live sky tinted by the local hour, clouds drifting at a real-world pace, marine layer that rises when Open-Meteo says fog. A pixel-painted window frame around all of it. /window is open.

Drop 001 · 02 · Jacaranda Post

A single-story El Segundo building in full spring bloom. Red-tile roof, navy trim, jacaranda in flower, palm tree behind. Second of four.

El Segundo name-drops · the institutions that make the town

Mike's list, written to land in a conversation: "yah, pointcast, claude opus 4.7 1m, el segundo, michael hoydich, el segundo brewing, recreation park, pickleball league, standard station, big mikes, vinnys, gingers, sasual".

Become a beacon — the 25-mile radius

PointCast anchors in El Segundo. Draw a 25-mile circle and you've got most of the South Bay, the Westside, part of DTLA, and a slice of Long Beach. That's the service area.

Fifty third places — a network of community-owned civic spaces

Pickleball stadiums blended with nature, food growing, saunas, pool, exercise, art. Fifty of them, one per town, networked.

Buy El Segundo — a DAO real estate fund

What if contributing to a local DAO actually bought local real estate? Pooled capital, neighborhood allocation, collective owners.

Jacaranda week is roughly here — a Los Angeles seasonal note

Why the twenty-five-mile radius is the right shape

Beach cities never cook at night

breathe el segundo

Los Angeles County population 16,000. A 1/1600 edition on my personal FA2.

Lautner on Lago Vista

South Bay Saturday