This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass
What I Built
Every "go outside" app I've tried has the same problem. It's an app, so it wants you to look at it. There's a map, a feed, a streak, a little badge, and before you know it you're standing in a lovely park staring at your phone.
So I tried to build the opposite. Touch Grass, Not Glass is a camera that only works outside, and it won't show you anything until you get home.
It works a bit like a disposable film camera with a naturalist living inside it.
At home, you tell it where you're going (a park, a trail, your garden, the street, the river) and Gemma 3, running on my own laptop, writes you six small things to find. They fit the month and the time of day. On my first try it gave me "Find and photograph a single, fallen maple leaf displaying vibrant red hues" and "Locate and capture the texture of rough bark on an ancient oak tree."
Outside, the screen goes almost black. You see one quest at a time, it reads it out loud, and there's one button: "I found it". You take the photo and the next quest shows up. There's no preview and no feed, and no way to check if the photo "counted". You put the phone back in your pocket and keep walking.
Back home, you develop the roll. Gemma looks at each photo, writes down what it sees, decides whether you actually found the thing, and gives the frame a little specimen title and a two line field note. Each one gets stamped FOUND or NOT QUITE, and the whole walk turns into a page in your field journal.
The app keeps one number: how many minutes you spent with the screen off. No streaks, no leaderboard, no likes. The less you look at it, the better you did.
I made it for people who know they should get outside more but want a small reason to go, and a reason to look a bit closer once they're there. Kids on a walk, people who like to wander, and honestly, me.
The one rule I kept coming back to was that the app should get quieter the closer you get to going outside. The home screen is warm paper and serif type. Loading the film dims everything. Field mode is nearly black with a single sentence on it. You only get colour and photos back once you're home.
Demo
This is Sam, on day 47 of "just five more minutes". I made this short film to show the idea.
Live site: https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app (it has the film, an FAQ and docs)
The camera itself: https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/app.html
You don't need to install anything to try it. Open the camera on your phone, take a short walk, and develop the roll when you're back. If your computer doesn't run Gemma, an online darkroom does the work with Gemma 4, the newest open Gemma, so you get your own quests and your own field notes in a few seconds. If you only have a minute, tap "See a real roll developed by Gemma" to open my walk from this morning and replay the darkroom.
The film is a cartoon, but the app in it is real. The screens on Sam's phone and laptop are screenshots of the actual app, and the quest on the phone and the laptop's "Frame four: a large, dark snail!" line are real Gemma output from my machine. I put the film together with open tools too. The 3D world is Three.js, the voices are Piper (an open source text to speech model that runs offline), and the music and sound effects are about 300 lines of Python.
One honest note: the polaroids use CC licensed sample photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited in the film and on the site. I was building this around midnight, and there wasn't any daylight left to go shoot my own.
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A camera that only works outside. Open-weight Gemma develops your roll locally. Hacktoberfest 2026 Touch Grass.
Touch Grass, Not Glass
A camera that only works outside.
You get six small things to find. The screen goes dark while you look for them. When you get home, an open model running on your own computer develops your photos into a little field journal.
Try it at https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app or read the docs at https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/docs.html
I built this for the DEV Hacktoberfest 2026 Open-Source AI Challenge, week 1, Touch Grass.
How it works
At home you load the film. You pick where you're going, and Gemma 3 (running locally through Ollama) writes six quests that fit the month, the time of day and the place.
Outside, the screen goes nearly black. You see one quest at a time, it gets read out loud, and there's a single "I found it" button. No preview and no feed. It works with no signal at all.
Back home you developโฆ
There are no npm dependencies. It's plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, a service worker, IndexedDB, and a local Ollama server doing the AI part.
How I Built It
The model is Gemma 3 4B, running through Ollama on a laptop with no graphics card. Mine only has integrated Intel graphics, so Gemma runs on the CPU at about six tokens a second.
That speed was the first big problem, and it ended up shaping the whole idea. Developing one photo takes about two minutes on my machine (between 111 and 127 seconds in the sample roll). If the app checked every photo live, you'd be standing on the trail watching a loading spinner, which is exactly the kind of screen staring I wanted to get rid of. So I copied what film cameras did. You shoot now and develop later. Once I made that choice, the slow model wasn't a problem anymore. It was the reason the screen gets to stay dark. You come home, tap Develop, put the kettle on, and the roll comes in one frame at a time.
Two darkrooms
The darkroom can run in two places, and both use exactly the same prompts (they live in one small file that both sides import).
On my laptop it's Gemma 3 4B through Ollama. Everything stays on my own devices, and it takes about two minutes a photo.
For everyone else there's an online darkroom: a tiny serverless function on Vercel that sends the same prompts to Gemma hosted by Google. Google hosts Gemma 4 now, the 26B mixture of experts version with about 4B parameters active, so it writes quests in about four seconds and develops a photo in about eight. The API key stays on the server and the function stores nothing. The app always tries your own computer first, tells you which darkroom it's using, and you can switch the online one off in Settings.
Getting Gemma 4 to answer quickly took one trick. It thinks before it answers, and on my first tries it spent its whole budget thinking and never wrote the quests. Setting its thinking level to minimal brought quest writing from over two minutes down to four seconds.
Two prompts
There are two prompts, and both ask for structured output. Locally, Ollama's format field takes a JSON schema; online, the API is asked for JSON only. You pass a JSON schema in the format field and Gemma always answers with data the app can read.
The first one writes quests. It gets the month, the time of day and where you're going, and it has to return exactly six one sentence quests. I asked for things you can find in under ten minutes, that are safe, that leave nature alone, and that mix plants, animal signs, light and the season.
The second one is the darkroom. It gets one photo and the quest that went with it, and returns an observation, whether it matches, a confidence, a title, a field note and a species guess.
The order of those fields turned out to matter a lot. My first version asked for the verdict first. Gemma once told me a purple gradient wallpaper was "something natural with two colors", then explained in its own field note why it wasn't. When I moved the observation to the top, so the model has to describe the picture before it judges it, the answers got a lot more sensible.
A few smaller things make it work outside. A service worker caches the whole app, fonts included, so field mode opens with no signal at all. Photos get shrunk to 768 pixels on the phone and stored in IndexedDB, and nothing gets uploaded. If there's no model around when you load film, say you're already at the trailhead, the quests come from a small built in deck instead. And if you walk with your phone but develop on your laptop, you can export the roll as one file and import it on the laptop.
The "screen off" timer uses the Page Visibility API. It only counts the time the field screen was actually showing, and compares that with how long the walk took.
What Gemma Got Wrong
The sample roll on the landing page is Gemma's output exactly as it came out, and it got two things wrong.
One quest asked for a snail and my photo was of a slug. Gemma titled the frame "Black Slug on Stone", then described "a large, dark snail" anyway and stamped it FOUND. It also called a black Eurasian red squirrel an Eastern Gray Squirrel.
I could have kept tweaking the prompt until the demo looked perfect, but I'd rather show what it really does. A 4B model on a laptop isn't a field guide, and the app doesn't pretend it is. The journal always shows what the model saw, and the prompt asks it to say "uncertain" instead of making up a species. Because the model is open, I can also do something about it. I can switch to the 12B version with one setting, or fine tune a model on the plants and animals around where I live.
I Took It Outside
On the morning of October 6 I walked my own street, along the side paths that lead off to the other streets. There's no park near me, just houses, a road and a few trees, so I picked Streets in the app.
Seeing the screen go dark and hearing the mission read out loud was a wonderful thing to see.
In about six minutes I took four photos: my shadow on the pavement, a pawpaw tree, some weeds against a brick wall, and grass growing where the wall meets the ground. I skipped two missions, a plant in a pot and a small creature, because I couldn't find them around me.
My glass-free score was 12%. That's honest: I kept the screen on to read each mission instead of putting the phone away.
What stayed with me was the pawpaw tree, its big leaves moving in the wind.
Back home, Gemma developed the roll on my laptop. It named the pawpaw correctly (Carica papaya). My "fallen leaf" photo was really weeds against a wall, and Gemma stamped it NOT QUITE and said it would look for fallen leaves next time. Fair enough.
Why Does Open Innovation Matter?
Honestly, this project wouldn't work with a closed API.
It has to work where the grass is, and parks and trails are exactly where the signal drops. With an open model, "the cloud" is a laptop in my living room, and the walking part doesn't need a network at all.
Your walks can stay yours. A roll of photos is a record of where you went and when. Run Gemma on your own computer and those photos never leave your devices. I also added an online darkroom so people without a computer can try it, and I'm upfront about the trade: those photos go to Google's hosted Gemma to be developed, nothing is stored, and you can turn it off. Because the model is open, you get to choose. With a closed API there would be no local option at all.
It's free. No API key, no charge per photo, no subscription. A kid with an old laptop someone passed down to them can run the whole darkroom.
And I can change it. Swapping the model is one text box: the 12B Gemma on a stronger machine, Gemma 3n for something lighter, or LLaVA. The prompts all live in one small file anyone can read.
The funny part is that running my own model gave me the best idea in the project. With a fast cloud API I would have built yet another app that names your photo on the spot. Because my model was slow, I built a darkroom instead, and the darkroom is what keeps you off the screen.
My Agent Session
I built this with Claude Code as my pair programmer, and this is the full session. You can see the plan change when we found out my laptop had no GPU, the moment the slow model turned into the darkroom idea, the first time Gemma called the slug a snail, and the voxel film coming together frame by frame.
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Week 1 of the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge is officially live!
This week's theme is Touch Grass: build something with open-source AI at its core that gets people off the screen and into the world. Hiking, gardening, birding, run clubs, fall foliage: if it gets someone outside, it counts.
This year's Hacktoberfest is all about open-source AI and open-weight models. To participate, build a brand-new project and write about it on DEV. You can run an open-weight model, build on an open-source agent framework, run inference locally, or all three. They most important part? Tell us why open innovation matters for what you built.
TAKE ME TO THE CHALLENGE
Free credits: several partners are giving participants credits and promo codes, including Tinker, Render, Backboard, and ElevenLabs. Claim yours at hacktoberfest.com/my.
Winners will be announced the week of October 12.
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Week 1 of our five Hacktoberfest DEV Challenges starts today! Running through October 11, the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 1 gives you a full week to build.
**This year's Hacktoberfest is all about building brand-new projects with open-source AI and open-weight models. Here's everything you need to know about Hacktoberfest 2026.
Missed the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge? No problem. Every challenge is a fresh start, so you're competing on the same footing as everyone else.
This week, we'll select one overall winner and a winner in each of our 16 partner categories. See all five challenges and every partner category on the HF26 DEV Challenge Hub.
Let's get to it!
This week's theme: Touch Grass
Build something with open-weight models or open-source AI that gets people off the screen and into the world.
That can mean running an open-weight model, building on an open-source agent harness or framework, running inference locally, or all three. Whatever you pick, the open pieces should be what makes your project work.
Hiking, gardening, birding, run clubs, fall foliage: if it gets someone outside, it counts. The best builds here should make the screen the shortest part of the experience. A few ideas to get you going:
- A bird call identifier that works on the trail with no signal
- A garden planner that tells you what to plant this week based on your local frost dates
- A run club route builder that finds the best fall foliage near you
In your post, tell us why open innovation matters for what you built. Does it run on a phone in the backcountry with no internet? Keep someone's location data off a server they don't control? Let you fine-tune, swap models, or change how your agent behaves? Cost nothing to run? Tell us where your open-based approach worked better than a closed one.
Bonus points if you take it outside, use it, and tell us how it went.
Touch Grass Submission Template
Prize Categories
Alongside our overall winner, we have 16 prize categories for projects that use a specific partner's technology. You don't need to use any of these to win the overall prize, but if you've been curious about any of this tech, this is a great excuse to give one a try. Full descriptions are on the hub.
Featured categories:
- Best Use of Render
- Best Use of TabPFN
- Best Use of Tinker
- Best Use of Arduino
- Best Use of DigitalOcean
- Best Use of Gemma
Partner categories:
- Best Use of Backboard
- Best Use of ElevenLabs
- Best Use of Entire
- Best Use of GitHub Copilot
- Best Use of Mastra
- Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
- Best Use of Sentry Agent Tracing
- Best Use of SerpApi
- Best Use of Temporal
- Best Use of Tiger Data
Pro Tip: Partner category winners come from a smaller pool of submissions, so your odds are meaningfully higher.
Note: One project can enter every category it genuinely uses, but you can only win once per challenge, and we'll aim to celebrate as many different builders as possible across the month.
Free credits: several partners are giving participants credits and promo codes, including Tinker, Render, Backboard, and ElevenLabs. Claim yours at hacktoberfest.com/my.
A huge thank you to our partners for making these prizes possible!
Judging Criteria
This is DEV, so your write-up matters most.
- Writing Quality (weighted most heavily): Is the post clear and engaging? Does it explain what you built, who it's for, and why open innovation matters?
- Relevance to the Prompt and Theme: Is open-source AI or open-weight models at the core of the project? Does it get people off the screen and into the world?
- Creativity: Is it an original idea, or a fresh take on a familiar problem?
- Technical Execution: Does it work, and is it well built?
- Use of Partner Technology (optional): If you're entering a partner category, does the project use that technology in a meaningful way?
Show your work. We'd love to see how you built it. Save your agent session with DevRelay and embed it in your post, or link to it. It's optional, but it helps the judges understand your process.
Prizes
- Overall winner (1): $250 USD, a DEV++ membership, and an exclusive DEV badge
- Featured category winners (6): $200 USD and an exclusive DEV badge each
- Partner category winners (10): $100 USD and an exclusive DEV badge each
All participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge.
How To Participate
Publish a post on DEV using the submission template below. Tell us what you built and how it gets people outside, show us a demo, and explain why open innovation matters for what you built.
Touch Grass Submission Template
Please review our judging criteria, rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contest rules, such as eligibility requirements.
Need Help?
- New to Hacktoberfest this year? Start with Everything You Need To Know About Hacktoberfest 2026.
- Come hang out and ask questions in the MLH Discord.
- The challenge page has resources from our partners to help you get started.
Important Dates
- October 5: Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 1 begins!
- October 11: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
- Week of October 12: Winners announced
Week 2 launches Monday, October 12 with a brand-new theme. Follow #hf26challenge so you don't miss the reveal.
Questions about the challenge? Drop them in the comments below.
Happy Hacktoberfest, and good luck!
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Ariba Sayed
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Excited!
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adriens
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First benefit of this Hackathon, I used Kaggle and its free GPUs in a brand new way, will make me more productive in my next projects
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Excited !!
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Back to work
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Oh great, another work week...๐
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Since the submission deadline is 11 October 2026 at 11:59 PM PDT (which corresponds to 12 October 2026 at 11:59 AM PKT), could you please confirm if we can submit by our local Pakistan time? Thanks
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Yes, everyone submits according to their corresponding local time!
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# Hacktoberfest Week 1 "Touch Grass" โ Plan
## Context
User wants to enter the DEV Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge, Week 1 (Touch Grass). Deadline **Oct 11, 11:59 PM (local time)** โ ~5 days from today (Oct 6). Project folder `touch glass` is empty.
## What they actually need (there is no "form")
Submission = **publish a DEV post** using their template, tags `devchallenge, hf26challenge`. Post must contain:
1. **What I Built** โ what it does, who it's for, how it gets people outside
2. **Demo** โ deployed link or video
3. **Code** โ public GitHub repo (embed it)
4. **How I Built It** โ which open-weight model / open-source framework / local inference
5. **Why Open Innovation Matters** โ what open made possible that a closed API wouldn't (offline, privacy, cost, fine-tuning)
6. *(optional)* Agent session via DevRelay; Prize categories list
Judging: **writing quality weighted most**, then theme fit (open AI at the core + gets people outside), creativity, technical execution, partner tech. Bonus: actually use it outside and report how it went. Must be a brand-new project.
## Recommended idea: "Touch Grass, Not Glass"
A screen-minimal, offline-first PWA where open-weight AI **refuses to let you stay on the screen**:
- Gives you one short **field quest** tuned to season/time/weather ("find a leaf with something living on it", "a bird you can hear but not see").
- Screen then goes **dark** โ only a compass glyph + quest line. Spoken via open-source TTS (Piper / browser speech).
- You snap one photo; an **open-weight vision model (Gemma 3 / Gemma 3n)** verifies the find on-device/locally and writes a 2-line field note.
- Finds become a **"pressed leaf" field journal** โ the only rich screen, viewed later at home.
- Metric shown is **"minutes away from the screen"**, not streaks/likes.
- Privacy: photos + GPS never leave the device โ strong "why open" story.
Prize targets: Overall + **Best Use of Gemma** (featured, $200). Optional: Render (hosting the PWA shell).
## Build steps (once approved)
1. Scaffold PWA (Vite + vanilla/React) in `touch glass/`; offline service worker.
2. Inference: Ollama + `gemma3` vision locally (demo) with browser fallback (Transformers.js/WebGPU) if hardware allows.
3. Quest generator prompt + verifier prompt; dark "field mode" UI; journal page.
4. Push to public GitHub repo, deploy shell (Render/GitHub Pages), record demo video outside.
5. Draft DEV post in `touch glass/POST.md` following template. Then open the DEV template in the browser (user must be logged in), fill in the editor, show the user the final preview, and click **Publish only after an explicit "yes" in chat**.
## Decisions
- Concept: Touch Grass, Not Glass
- Hardware: NVIDIA GPU PC โ Ollama + `gemma3` (4B/12B vision) locally; PWA calls the local Ollama API
- Publishing: Claude fills the DEV post and asks for a final confirmation before Publish
- User still needs to: take the app outside for a real photo/demo video (bonus points), and be logged into DEV + GitHub
## Verification
Run app locally, complete a quest with a real outdoor photo, confirm verification works with network disabled.
$ node -v; npm -v; git --version; gh --version 2>&1 | head -1; ollama --version 2>&1; nvidia-smi --query-gpu=name,memory.total --format=csv 2>&1 | head -3
v24.18.0
11.16.0
git version 2.54.0.windows.1
gh version 2.96.0 (2026-07-02)
ollama version is 0.35.1
/usr/bin/bash: line 4: nvidia-smi: command not found
$ ollama list 2>&1; powershell -NoProfile -Command "Get-CimInstance Win32_VideoController | Select Name,AdapterRAM | Format-List" 2>&1; gh auth status 2>&1 | head -5
NAME ID SIZE MODIFIED
gemma3:4b a2af6cc3eb7f 3.3 GB 41 hours ago
Name : Intel(R) HD Graphics 620
AdapterRAM : 1073741824
github.com
โ Logged in to github.com account angelraph (keyring)
- Active account: true
- Git operations protocol: https
- Token: gho_************************************
Note: this PC has no NVIDIA GPU, only Intel HD 620 graphics. gemma3:4b is already installed, though, so it can run on the CPU. I'll check how fast it is.
$ time curl -s http://localhost:11434/api/generate -d '{"model":"gemma3:4b","prompt":"Give one 12-word outdoor scavenger quest for an October afternoon.","stream":false,"options":{"num_predict":40}}' | node -e "let s='';process.stdin.on('data',d=>s+=d).on('end',()=>{const j=JSON.parse(s);console.log(j.response, '\n eval tok/s:', (j.eval_count/(j.eval_duration/1e9)).toFixed(1))})"
Okay, hereโs a 12-word outdoor scavenger quest perfect for an October afternoon:
**Find three shades of red, a fallen leaf, a pinecone, & a twig.**
eval tok/s: 5.9
real 0m35.303s
user 0m0.124s
sys 0m0.140s
$ find /c/Users/Admin/Pictures /c/Windows/Web -iname "*.jpg" 2>/dev/null | head -5
/c/Windows/Web/4K/Wallpaper/Windows/img0_1920x1200.jpg
/c/Windows/Web/4K/Wallpaper/Windows/img19_1920x1200.jpg
/c/Windows/Web/Screen/img100.jpg
/c/Windows/Web/Screen/img101.jpg
/c/Windows/Web/Screen/img102.jpg
$ cd "$TEMP" ; B64=$(base64 -w0 /c/Windows/Web/Screen/img101.jpg); cat > vreq.json <<EOF
{"model":"gemma3:4b","stream":false,"format":{"type":"object","properties":{"found":{"type":"boolean"},"confidence":{"type":"number"},"note":{"type":"string"}},"required":["found","confidence","note"]},"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Quest: find something natural with at least two colors. Does this photo satisfy the quest? Reply JSON with found, confidence 0-1, and a 2-sentence field-journal note.","images":["$B64"]}],"options":{"num_predict":120}}
EOF
time curl -s http://localhost:11434/api/chat -d @vreq.json | node -e "let s='';process.stdin.on('data',d=>s+=d).on('end',()=>{const j=JSON.parse(s);console.log(j.message.content)})"
{
"found": true,
"confidence": 0.9,
"note": "While the image is digitally created with a gradient of blues and pinks, it doesn't represent a naturally occurring phenomenon. The colors are artificially blended to create an abstract, luminous effect on a dark background."
}
real 1m55.118s
user 0m0.077s
sys 0m0.077s
Shell cwd was reset to C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && git init -q && mkdir -p public && echo ok
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The page layout and styles are done. Now I'm writing the app logic: quest generation, the dark field mode, and the Gemma darkroom.
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C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\store.js
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\store.js (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\app.js
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\app.js (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
Now the offline service worker, manifest, icon, and a dependency-free local server.
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && rmdir public && cat > sw.js <<'EOF'
// Cache the app shell so field mode works with zero signal.
const CACHE = 'touch-grass-v1';
const SHELL = ['./', 'index.html', 'style.css', 'app.js', 'ollama.js', 'store.js', 'manifest.webmanifest', 'icon.svg'];
self.addEventListener('install', e => {
e.waitUntil(caches.open(CACHE).then(c => c.addAll(SHELL)).then(() => self.skipWaiting()));
});
self.addEventListener('activate', e => {
e.waitUntil(caches.keys().then(keys => Promise.all(keys.filter(k => k !== CACHE).map(k => caches.delete(k)))));
});
// Network-first for the shell (fresh when online), cache when offline. Never touch model calls.
self.addEventListener('fetch', e => {
const url = new URL(e.request.url);
if (e.request.method !== 'GET' || url.origin !== location.origin) return;
e.respondWith(
fetch(e.request)
.then(res => { const copy = res.clone(); caches.open(CACHE).then(c => c.put(e.request, copy)); return res; })
.catch(() => caches.match(e.request, { ignoreSearch: true }))
);
});
EOF
cat > manifest.webmanifest <<'EOF'
{
"name": "Touch Grass, Not Glass",
"short_name": "Touch Grass",
"description": "A camera that only works outside. Gemma develops your roll at home.",
"start_url": "./",
"display": "standalone",
"background_color": "#0b0b09",
"theme_color": "#0b0b09",
"icons": [{ "src": "icon.svg", "sizes": "any", "type": "image/svg+xml", "purpose": "any maskable" }]
}
EOF
cat > icon.svg <<'EOF'
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512">
<rect width="512" height="512" rx="96" fill="#0b0b09"/>
<circle cx="256" cy="256" r="150" fill="none" stroke="#c9a25a" stroke-width="22"/>
<path d="M256 360c0-70 0-120 0-150M256 300c-40-10-70-40-78-86 46 8 72 36 78 86zM256 262c36-8 62-34 70-74-40 6-64 32-70 74z" fill="#7c9a52" stroke="#7c9a52" stroke-width="10" stroke-linejoin="round"/>
</svg>
EOF
cat > serve.mjs <<'EOF'
// Zero-dependency static server: node serve.mjs [port]
import { createServer } from 'node:http';
import { readFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
import { extname, join, normalize } from 'node:path';
const root = new URL('.', import.meta.url).pathname.replace(/^\/([A-Za-z]:)/, '$1');
const port = Number(process.argv[2]) || 5173;
const types = { '.html': 'text/html', '.js': 'text/javascript', '.css': 'text/css', '.svg': 'image/svg+xml', '.webmanifest': 'application/manifest+json', '.json': 'application/json' };
createServer(async (req, res) => {
const path = normalize(decodeURIComponent(new URL(req.url, 'http://x').pathname)).replace(/^([/\\])+/, '');
try {
const body = await readFile(join(root, path || 'index.html'));
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': types[extname(path || '.html')] || 'application/octet-stream' });
res.end(body);
} catch {
res.writeHead(404).end('not found');
}
}).listen(port, () => console.log(`Touch Grass on http://localhost:${port}`));
EOF
cat > package.json <<'EOF'
{
"name": "touch-grass-not-glass",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "A camera that only works outside. Open-weight Gemma develops your roll locally.",
"type": "module",
"scripts": { "start": "node serve.mjs" },
"license": "MIT"
}
EOF
echo done
done
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && mkdir -p .claude && cat > .claude/launch.json <<'EOF'
{
"version": "0.0.1",
"configurations": [
{ "name": "touch-grass", "runtimeExecutable": "node", "runtimeArgs": ["serve.mjs", "5173"], "port": 5173 }
]
}
EOF
(Bash completed with no output)
{
"name": "touch-grass"
}
The dev server exited during startup (code 1). Fix the error in the output below, then start the server again.
Output:
file:///C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch%20glass/serve.mjs:11
const path = normalize(decodeURIComponent(new URL(req.url, 'http://x').pathname)).replace(/^([/\])+/, '');
^
SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: missing /
[90m at compileSourceTextModule (node:internal/modules/esm/utils:318:16)[39m
[90m at ModuleLoader.moduleStrategy (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:89:18)[39m
[90m at #translate (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:434:20)[39m
[90m at afterLoad (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:502:29)[39m
[90m at ModuleLoader.loadAndTranslate (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:507:12)[39m
[90m at #getOrCreateModuleJobAfterResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:560:36)[39m
[90m at afterResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:607:52)[39m
[90m at ModuleLoader.getOrCreateModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:613:12)[39m
[90m at node:internal/modules/esm/loader:632:32[39m
[90m at TracingChannel.tracePromise (node:diagnostics_channel:362:14)[39m
Node.js v24.18.0
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && node -e "
const fs=require('fs');let s=fs.readFileSync('serve.mjs','utf8');
s=s.replace(/^const root = .*$/m, \"const root = fileURLToPath(new URL('.', import.meta.url));\");
s=s.replace(\"import { extname, join, normalize } from 'node:path';\", \"import { extname, join, normalize } from 'node:path';\nimport { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';\");
s=s.replace(/\.replace\(\/\^\(\[[^)]*\)\+\/, ''\)/, \".replace(/^[\\\\\\\\/]+/, '')\");
fs.writeFileSync('serve.mjs',s);" && sed -n '1,14p' serve.mjs
// Zero-dependency static server: node serve.mjs [port]
import { createServer } from 'node:http';
import { readFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
import { extname, join, normalize } from 'node:path';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
const root = fileURLToPath(new URL('.', import.meta.url));
const port = Number(process.argv[2]) || 5173;
const types = { '.html': 'text/html', '.js': 'text/javascript', '.css': 'text/css', '.svg': 'image/svg+xml', '.webmanifest': 'application/manifest+json', '.json': 'application/json' };
createServer(async (req, res) => {
const path = normalize(decodeURIComponent(new URL(req.url, 'http://x').pathname)).replace(/^[\/]+/, '');
try {
const body = await readFile(join(root, path || 'index.html'));
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\serve.mjs
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\serve.mjs has been updated successfully.
{
"name": "touch-grass"
}
{
"serverId": "9d86a9dd-6bda-40fa-a00c-16ecec99ad62",
"port": 5173,
"name": "touch-grass",
"reused": false,
"previewId": "preview-local_535a09e9-2059-446c-8b2e-335af4f240d0",
"tabId": "seed"
}
Server started successfully on port 5173. Opened tab "seed" at http://localhost:5173. Use tabId "seed" with read_page / computer / navigate; serverId is for preview_stop and preview_logs only.
{
"actions": [
{
"name": "computer",
"input": {
"action": "wait",
"duration": 2
}
},
{
"name": "computer",
"input": {
"action": "screenshot",
"scale": 0.5
}
},
{
"name": "read_console_messages",
"input": {
"onlyErrors": true
}
}
]
}
actions[0] (computer:wait) failed: This tab is blank โ no page is loaded in it. Load one with `navigate` (pass this tabId), or address the tab that already has your page (`tabs_context` lists them). (0 completed, 2 remaining)
{"actions":[{"name":"navigate","input":{"url":"http://localhost:5173"}},{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"wait","duration":2}},{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"screenshot","scale":0.5}},{"nam...
actions[0] (navigate) failed: navigation to http://localhost:5173 was denied or failed (0 completed, 3 remaining)
The app is built. I'm trying to open it in the in-app browser to test it, and navigation was refused, so I'll check the server directly.
$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" http://localhost:5173/ ; curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" http://localhost:5173/app.js
200
200
{
}
{
"browserOpen": true,
"tabs": [
{
"tabId": "seed",
"origin": "",
"isActive": true
}
]
}
The Browser pane is currently hidden.
{
"url": "http://localhost:5173/",
"tabId": "seed"
}
navigation to http://localhost:5173 was denied or failed
The in-app browser won't open localhost here. I'll test the AI pipeline directly with Node instead, using the same ollama.js the app uses.
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && cat > "$TEMP/t.mjs" <<'EOF'
import * as o from 'file:///C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch%20glass/ollama.js';
import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
const base='http://localhost:11434', m='gemma3:4b';
console.log('health', await o.health(base,m));
let t=Date.now();
const q = await o.writeQuests(base,m,{place:'a city park',month:'October',partOfDay:'afternoon'});
console.log(q, ((Date.now()-t)/1000).toFixed(0)+'s');
t=Date.now();
const img = readFileSync(process.argv[2]).toString('base64');
console.log(await o.develop(base,m,q[0],img), ((Date.now()-t)/1000).toFixed(0)+'s');
EOF
ls -S /c/Windows/Web/Screen/*.jpg /c/Windows/Web/Wallpaper/*/*.jpg 2>/dev/null | tail -3
/c/Windows/Web/Screen/img104.jpg
/c/Windows/Web/Screen/img105.jpg
/c/Windows/Web/Wallpaper/Spotlight/img50.jpg
$ node "$TEMP/t.mjs" /c/Windows/Web/Wallpaper/Spotlight/img50.jpg 2>&1
health true
[
'Find and photograph a single, fallen maple leaf displaying vibrant red hues.',
'Locate and capture the texture of rough bark on an ancient oak tree.',
'Photograph the dappled sunlight filtering through the branches above you.',
'Discover and document a tiny snail slowly navigating a damp stone.',
'Find and photograph evidence of recent squirrel activity โ a buried nut?',
'Capture the shape of the clouds drifting across the autumn sky.'
] 32s
{
observation: 'The image presents a composite of four distinct landscape shots, including a coastal scene, a cherry blossom branch, a lake with mountains, and a beach.',
matches_quest: false,
confidence: 0.1,
title: 'Ephemeral Red Leaf',
field_note: "This stunning collection of scenes doesn't include a maple leaf, but the serene lake and mountain vista are beautiful to observe, perhaps a similar location could hold a vibrant maple leaf.",
species_guess: 'n/a'
} 143s
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\app.js
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\app.js has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
Committed. Now I'm creating the public GitHub repo under your account (angelraph) and turning on GitHub Pages, so the app gets an HTTPS link you can open on your phone.
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && git branch -M main && gh repo create touch-grass-not-glass --public --source . --push --description "A camera that only works outside. Open-weight Gemma develops your roll locally. Hacktoberfest 2026 Touch Grass." 2>&1 | tail -3 && gh api -X POST repos/angelraph/touch-grass-not-glass/pages -f "source[branch]=main" -f "source[path]=/" --jq .html_url 2>&1
To https://github.com/angelraph/touch-grass-not-glass.git
* [new branch] HEAD -> main
branch 'main' set up to track 'origin/main'.
https://angelraph.github.io/touch-grass-not-glass/
The repo and Pages are live. Now I'm drafting the DEV post, since the write-up counts most with the judges.
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\POST.md
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\POST.md (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\memory\hacktoberfest-touch-grass.md
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\memory\hacktoberfest-touch-grass.md
$ echo "- [Hacktoberfest Touch Grass entry](hacktoberfest-touch-grass.md) โ repo, deadline Oct 11, publish-only-after-yes" >> "/c/Users/Admin/.claude/projects/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/memory/MEMORY.md"
(Bash completed with no output)
The app is built and live, and the post is drafted. I haven't published anything yet: the post still needs a few real things that only you can provide.
What the challenge needs: a published DEV post with sections for what you built, a demo, the code, how you built it, and why open models matter. It's due Oct 11, 11:59 PM your local time. Writing quality counts the most, and you get bonus points for actually using the app outside and saying how it went.
What's done:
- The app, "Touch Grass, Not Glass": a camera that only works outside.
- At home, Gemma writes 6 field quests for the season and the place you're heading.
- Outside, the screen goes nearly black: one quest, read aloud, and a shutter button.
- Back home, Gemma "develops the roll." It checks each photo against its quest and writes a short field note.
- The only score is the share of your walk the screen was off ("96% glass-free").
- Code: https://github.com/angelraph/touch-grass-not-glass
- Live link: https://angelraph.github.io/touch-grass-not-glass/
- Post draft: POST.md, entered for the overall prize and Best Use of Gemma ($200).
How it was tested:
- Gemma wrote good October park quests in 32 seconds.
- Given a photo that didn't match its quest, it correctly answered "NOT QUITE" instead of pretending.
- I could not test the screens in a browser here; the in-app browser wouldn't open the page. Please open the live link once and check it looks right.
Your PC has no NVIDIA GPU, so Gemma runs on the CPU. Checking one photo takes about 2.4 minutes. I made that part of the idea: like a film camera, you shoot now and develop later, and the post explains this.
What I need from you before publishing:
1. Take a real walk. Open the live link on your phone and shoot a roll. At home, tap Export roll on the phone, then on the PC run the command below and use Import roll and Develop roll.
2. Tell me how the walk went: where you went, your glass-free %, your best photo, and anything Gemma got wrong. I'll write it into the "I Took It Outside" section. I won't make this part up.
3. Send me 2โ3 screenshots or a short video for the Demo section.
4. Be logged into DEV. I'll fill in the post in your browser, show it to you, and click Publish only after you say yes.
npm start
also deploy on vercel after the repository creation let me see how it looks like
$ vercel --version 2>&1 | head -2; vercel whoami 2>&1 | tail -2
Vercel CLI 61.0.0
61.0.0
Vercel CLI 61.0.0 (Node.js 24.18.0)
angelraph
You're logged into the Vercel CLI as angelraph. Deploying the static app to production now:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && printf 'POST.md\n.claude\nroll-*.json\n.git\n' > .vercelignore && echo ".vercel" >> .gitignore && vercel deploy --prod --yes 2>&1 | tail -6
Build Command: `npm run vercel-build` or `npm run build`
Development Command: None
Install Command: `yarn install`, `pnpm install`, `npm install`, or `bun install`
Output Directory: `public` if it exists, or `.`
Error: Project names can be up to 100 characters long and must be lowercase. They can include letters, digits, and the following characters: '.', '_', '-'. However, they cannot contain the sequence '---'. (400)
Learn More: https://vercel.com/docs/projects/overview#project-name
The folder name has a space in it, so I'll set the project name explicitly.
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && vercel deploy --prod --yes --project touch-grass-not-glass 2>&1 | tail -6
"when": "change the default scope"
}
],
"cliVersion": "61.0.0",
"invocationId": "26a7d689-66ab-4d52-aa69-85a08c9f5d48"
}
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && vercel deploy --prod --yes --project touch-grass-not-glass 2>&1 | head -30
Vercel CLI 61.0.0 (Node.js 24.18.0)
Error: Project "touch-grass-not-glass" was not found in the current scope (angelraphs-projects).
If it lives in a different team or account:
โข Retry with `--scope <team-slug|your-username>`, or
โข Run `vercel switch <team-slug|your-username>` to change scope.
List accessible teams with `vercel teams ls`.
{
"status": "error",
"reason": "project_not_found",
"message": "Project \"touch-grass-not-glass\" was not found in the current scope (angelraphs-projects). If it lives in a different team or account, retry with --scope <team-slug|your-username> or run `vercel switch <team-slug|your-username>` to change scope.",
"scope": "angelraphs-projects",
"next": [
{
"command": "vercel teams ls",
"when": "list accessible teams"
},
{
"command": "vercel deploy --project touch-grass-not-glass --scope <team-slug> --yes",
"when": "retry with a specific team"
},
{
"command": "vercel switch <team-slug>",
"when": "change the default scope"
}
],
"cliVersion": "61.0.0",
"invocationId": "b6498053-fa0d-444f-a639-fa673a429736"
The --project flag only works for projects that already exist, so I'll create the project first and then deploy.
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && vercel project add touch-grass-not-glass 2>&1 | tail -2 && vercel link --yes --project touch-grass-not-glass 2>&1 | tail -2 && vercel deploy --prod --yes 2>&1 | grep -Ei "https://|error|aliased" | head -8
Vercel CLI 61.0.0 (Node.js 24.18.0)
> Success! Project touch-grass-not-glass added (angelraphs-projects) [2s]
โ Created .env.local file and added it to .gitignore
Inspect https://vercel.com/angelraphs-projects/touch-grass-not-glass/DRdXRXLvQAmS3SErX6GKcETWBJ6i
Production https://touch-grass-not-glass-nyt3ynuyq-angelraphs-projects.vercel.app
[2K[1A[2K[G Production https://touch-grass-not-glass-nyt3ynuyq-angelraphs-projects.vercel.app
โฒ Aliased https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app
"url": "https://touch-grass-not-glass-nyt3ynuyq-angelraphs-projects.vercel.app",
"productionUrl": "https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app",
"inspectorUrl": "https://vercel.com/angelraphs-projects/touch-grass-not-glass/DRdXRXLvQAmS3SErX6GKcETWBJ6i",
"deploymentApiUrl": "https://api.vercel.com/v13/deployments/dpl_DRdXRXLvQAmS3SErX6GKcETWBJ6i",
$ for p in "" app.js sw.js POST.md; do curl -s -o /dev/null -w "$p %{http_code}\n" https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/$p; done; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && cat .gitignore && git status --short
200
app.js 200
sw.js 200
POST.md 404
node_modules/
*.log
.claude/
roll-*.json
POST.md
.vercel
.vercel
.env*
M .gitignore
?? .vercelignore
The site is live and your private draft (POST.md) isn't exposed. Next I'll commit the ignore files, connect the GitHub repo so future pushes redeploy automatically, and open the site for you.
{
"url": "https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/",
"tabId": "seed"
}
navigated to https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
{
"actions": [
{
"name": "computer",
"input": {
"action": "screenshot",
"scale": 0.6
}
},
{
"name": "read_console_messages",
"input": {
"onlyErrors": true
}
}
]
}
[computer:screenshot] Screenshot size: 176x155 0.6-scale view; coordinate frame: 294x260.
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
[Image: source: C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tool-results\mcp-Claude_Browser-blob-1791243588068-ex2zu2.jpg]
[read_console_messages] [error] Failed to load resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
The page loads. The one console error is the site trying to reach the local Ollama model, which is expected on the hosted version. I'll look at it at phone size and try field mode.
{
"preset": "mobile",
"tabId": "seed"
}
Viewport set to 375x812 (mobile) on this tab (scaled down to fit if larger than the pane). Reset it with preset "desktop" as soon as you finish testing; the desktop app also clears a size you set when your turn ends or the pane's width changes, so set it again if you still need it. If the user wants to keep a phone or tablet size after your turn, they can pick Mobile or Tablet in the pane's Viewport menu; a custom size you simply set again next turn.
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
- Viewport: emulating 375x812 (you set this; reset it with preset "desktop" when you finish testing; the app also clears it when your turn ends or the pane's width changes)
{"actions":[{"name":"navigate","input":{"url":"https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/","tabId":"seed"}},{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"screenshot","scale":0.7}},{"name":"find","input":{"quer...
[navigate] navigated to https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
- Viewport: emulating 375x812 (you set this; reset it with preset "desktop" when you finish testing; the app also clears it when your turn ends or the pane's width changes)
[computer:screenshot] Screenshot size: 263x569 0.7-scale view; coordinate frame: 375x812.
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
- Viewport: emulating 375x812 (you set this; reset it with preset "desktop" when you finish testing; the app also clears it when your turn ends or the pane's width changes)
[Image: source: C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tool-results\mcp-Claude_Browser-blob-1791243594852-b5ath7.jpg]
[find] Found 1 match(es) for "Load film":
- button "Load film" [ref_15]
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
- Viewport: emulating 375x812 (you set this; reset it with preset "desktop" when you finish testing; the app also clears it when your turn ends or the pane's width changes)
{"actions":[{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"left_click","ref":"ref_15","action_summary":"Clicks Load film to start a quest roll"}},{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"wait","duration":3}},{"na...
[computer:left_click] left_click at (88, 392) [ref_15]
(captured at origin https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app)
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
- Viewport: emulating 375x812 (you set this; reset it with preset "desktop" when you finish testing; the app also clears it when your turn ends or the pane's width changes)
[computer:wait] waited 3s
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
- Viewport: emulating 375x812 (you set this; reset it with preset "desktop" when you finish testing; the app also clears it when your turn ends or the pane's width changes)
[computer:screenshot] Screenshot size: 263x569 0.7-scale view; coordinate frame: 375x812.
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
- Viewport: emulating 375x812 (you set this; reset it with preset "desktop" when you finish testing; the app also clears it when your turn ends or the pane's width changes)
[Image: source: C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tool-results\mcp-Claude_Browser-blob-1791243601907-f4td7k.jpg]
[get_page_text] Title: Touch Grass, Not Glass
URL: https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/
Source element: <body>
---
A CAMERA THAT ONLY WORKS OUTSIDE
Touch Grass,
Not Glass
Load a roll
Gemma writes you six field quests for today's season and light. Then put the phone in your pocket.
Where are you heading?
City park
Forest trail
Backyard / garden
City streets
Beach / riverbank
Load film
Darkroom
Rolls you've shot wait here until Gemma develops them on this machine.
No rolls yet. Go outside first.
Import roll
Settings
Photos and location never leave your devices. No accounts, no cloud, no streaks.
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
- Viewport: emulating 375x812 (you set this; reset it with preset "desktop" when you finish testing; the app also clears it when your turn ends or the pane's width changes)
Tapping "Load film" didn't seem to do anything. Checking why:
{"action":"javascript_exec","text":"({status: document.getElementById('loadStatus').textContent, disabled: document.getElementById('loadRoll').disabled, health: document.getElementById('ollamaHealth')...
{
"disabled": false,
"fieldHidden": true,
"health": "โ No local model reachable. Field mode still works; develop later at home.",
"status": ""
}
(captured at origin https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app)
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
- Viewport: emulating 375x812 (you set this; reset it with preset "desktop" when you finish testing; the app also clears it when your turn ends or the pane's width changes)
{"action":"javascript_exec","text":"document.getElementById('loadRoll').click(); await new Promise(r=>setTimeout(r,3000)); ({fieldHidden: document.getElementById('field').hidden, quest: document.getEl...
{
"fieldHidden": false,
"quest": "Find a color in nature you could not name.",
"status": ""
}
(captured at origin https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app)
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
- Viewport: emulating 375x812 (you set this; reset it with preset "desktop" when you finish testing; the app also clears it when your turn ends or the pane's width changes)
The app works; my first tap had just missed the button. Field mode now opens with a pocket-deck quest:
{
"action": "screenshot",
"tabId": "seed"
}
[Image: source: C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tool-results\mcp-Claude_Browser-blob-1791243620126-1sr175.jpg]
Screenshot size: 375x812
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
- Viewport: emulating 375x812 (you set this; reset it with preset "desktop" when you finish testing; the app also clears it when your turn ends or the pane's width changes)
{
"action": "javascript_exec",
"text": "({w: innerWidth, h: innerHeight, dpr: devicePixelRatio, fieldW: document.getElementById('field').getBoundingClientRect().width})",
"tabId": "seed"
}
{
"dpr": 2,
"fieldW": 375,
"h": 812,
"w": 375
}
(captured at origin https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app)
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
- Viewport: emulating 375x812 (you set this; reset it with preset "desktop" when you finish testing; the app also clears it when your turn ends or the pane's width changes)
Measured, the layout is the correct 375px phone width; the cramped look comes from the pane being small and scaling the screenshot down. I'll clear the test roll and reset the viewport.
{
"action": "javascript_exec",
"text": "speechSynthesis.cancel(); indexedDB.deleteDatabase('touch-grass'); location.reload(); 'ok'",
"tabId": "seed"
}
"ok"
(captured at origin https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app)
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
- Viewport: emulating 375x812 (you set this; reset it with preset "desktop" when you finish testing; the app also clears it when your turn ends or the pane's width changes)
{
"preset": "desktop",
"tabId": "seed"
}
Viewport emulation cleared; the tab is back to the pane's responsive size (desktop).
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\POST.md
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\POST.md has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
The app is deployed on Vercel at https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app, and it's open in the browser pane so you can see it.
-
Auto-deploy: the Vercel project is connected to your GitHub repo, so every push to
mainredeploys the site by itself. - Private draft: POST.md is excluded from the deploy (it returns 404), so your unfinished post isn't public.
- Post updated: the Demo link in the draft now points to the Vercel address.
What I tested on the live site:
- The home page loads.
- At phone size, "Load film" opens the black field screen with a quest ("Find a color in nature you could not name.").
- I deleted that test roll afterwards.
- The screenshots in the pane look squashed, but I measured the page and it lays out at the correct phone width. The squashing comes from the small pane, not the site.
Limitation of the online version: it can't reach Gemma, because the model runs only on your PC. So it uses the built-in backup set of quests instead of AI-written ones, and it can't develop photos. That's fine for the walk: shoot on your phone using the Vercel link, tap Export roll, then develop the roll at home on your PC with npm start.
Next steps are the same as before. Take the walk, send me 2โ3 screenshots or a short video and tell me how it went, and I'll finish the post. I'll only click Publish after you say yes.
@"[REDACTED]\Downloads__QfwctsafkFEKBx.mp4"
all this can be done by you professionally and confidenltly
<pasted_content id="9ee1">
What I need from you before publishing:
- Take a real walk. Open the live link on your phone and shoot a roll. At home, tap Export roll on the phone, then on the PC run the command below and use Import roll and Develop roll.
- Tell me how the walk went: where you went, your glass-free %, your best photo, and anything Gemma got wrong. I'll write it into the "I Took It Outside" section. I won't make this part up.
- Send me 2โ3 screenshots or a short video for the Demo section.
- Be logged into DEV. I'll fill in the post in your browser, show it to you, and click Publish only after you say yes. </pasted_content id="9ee1">
and what can it take us to get video lik this?
$ F="/c/Users/Admin/Downloads/__QfwctsafkFEKBx.mp4"; ls -la "$F"; ffmpeg -version 2>&1 | head -1; ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration:stream=codec_type,width,height,r_frame_rate -of compact "$F" 2>&1
Exit code 127
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 26699917 Oct 6 00:34 /c/Users/Admin/Downloads/__QfwctsafkFEKBx.mp4
/usr/bin/bash: line 4: ffmpeg: command not found
/usr/bin/bash: line 4: ffprobe: command not found
I'll look at the video first. ffmpeg isn't installed, so I'll open the file in the browser pane and grab frames from it.
{
"url": "file:///C:/Users/Admin/Downloads/__QfwctsafkFEKBx.mp4",
"tabId": "seed"
}
opened file:///C:/Users/Admin/Downloads/__QfwctsafkFEKBx.mp4 in the preview pane (files outside the project folder render as static snapshots)
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && mkdir -p _ref && cp "/c/Users/Admin/Downloads/__QfwctsafkFEKBx.mp4" _ref/ref.mp4 && echo "_ref/" >> .gitignore && echo "_ref" >> .vercelignore && cat > _ref/sheet.html <<'EOF'
<!doctype html><meta charset="utf-8"><body style="margin:0;background:#111;color:#eee;font:12px monospace">
<div id="info"></div><div id="grid" style="display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(4,1fr);gap:4px"></div>
<script>
const v=document.createElement('video');v.src='ref.mp4';v.muted=true;v.preload='auto';
v.onloadedmetadata=async()=>{
const d=v.duration,N=16;info.textContent=`duration ${d.toFixed(1)}s ${v.videoWidth}x${v.videoHeight}`;
for(let i=0;i<N;i++){const t=d*(i+.5)/N;v.currentTime=t;await new Promise(r=>v.onseeked=r);
const c=document.createElement('canvas');c.width=v.videoWidth/4;c.height=v.videoHeight/4;c.getContext('2d').drawImage(v,0,0,c.width,c.height);
const w=document.createElement('div');w.append(c,document.createTextNode(' '+t.toFixed(1)+'s'));c.style.width='100%';grid.append(w);}
document.title='done';};
</script>
EOF
echo ok
ok
{
"url": "file:///C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch%20glass/_ref/sheet.html",
"tabId": "seed"
}
opened file:///C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch%20glass/_ref/sheet.html in the preview pane (files outside the project folder render as static snapshots)
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
{
"action": "screenshot",
"tabId": "seed"
}
[Image: source: C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tool-results\mcp-Claude_Browser-blob-1791243707696-7dkjbb.jpg]
Screenshot size: 294x260
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: seed
- Available tabs:
โข tabId seed: "Touch Grass, Not Glass" ("https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/")
The browser pane can't play local video, so I'll install a standard ffmpeg build (the ffmpeg-static npm package) in a scratch folder. I'll need it to make our own video anyway.
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; mkdir -p "$S/ff" && cd "$S/ff" && npm init -y >/dev/null && npm i ffmpeg-static ffprobe-static 2>&1 | tail -2 && node -e "console.log(require('ffmpeg-static'));console.log(require('ffprobe-static').path)"
npm warn allow-scripts
npm warn allow-scripts Run `npm approve-scripts --allow-scripts-pending` to review, or `npm approve-scripts <pkg>` to allow.
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\ff\node_modules\ffmpeg-static\ffmpeg.exe
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\ff\node_modules\ffprobe-static\bin\win32\x64\ffprobe.exe
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; ls "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/"; "$S/ff/node_modules/ffprobe-static/bin/win32/x64/ffprobe.exe" -v error -show_entries format=duration:stream=codec_type,width,height,r_frame_rate -of compact "C:/Users/Admin/Downloads/__QfwctsafkFEKBx.mp4"
LICENSE
README.md
example.js*
ffmpeg.exe*
ffmpeg.exe.LICENSE
ffmpeg.exe.README
index.js
install.js
package.json
types/
stream|codec_type=video|width=640|height=360|r_frame_rate=30/1
stream|codec_type=audio|r_frame_rate=0/0
format|duration=689.557333
The video is 11.5 minutes long at 640ร360, with audio. I'll make a contact sheet of 24 frames spread across it.
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; "$FF" -v error -y -i "C:/Users/Admin/Downloads/__QfwctsafkFEKBx.mp4" -vf "fps=1/29,scale=320:-1,drawtext=text='%{pts\:hms}':x=5:y=5:fontcolor=yellow:fontsize=16:box=1:boxcolor=black,tile=4x6" -frames:v 1 "$S/sheet.jpg" 2>&1 | tail -3; ls -la "$S/sheet.jpg"
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null)
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null)
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 110472 Oct 6 00:44 C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/sheet.jpg
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\sheet.jpg
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; "$FF" -hide_banner -i "C:/Users/Admin/Downloads/__QfwctsafkFEKBx.mp4" -t 120 -af "silencedetect=n=-40dB:d=2,volumedetect" -f null - 2>&1 | grep -E "mean_volume|max_volume|silence_" | head -8
frame= 9 fps=0.0 q=-0.0 size=N/A time=00:00:00.26 bitrate=N/A speed=16.2x [silencedetect @ 000001e0977ab400] silence_start: 0
[silencedetect @ 000001e0977ab400] silence_end: 4.6784 | silence_duration: 4.6784
[Parsed_volumedetect_1 @ 000001e096e4be00] mean_volume: -23.2 dB
[Parsed_volumedetect_1 @ 000001e096e4be00] max_volume: -0.4 dB
{"questions":[{"question":"Which photos should the demo roll use?","header":"Photos","multiSelect":false,"options":[{"label":"My own phone photos (Recommended)","description":"Send me 4โ6 outdoor phot...
Your questions have been answered: "Which photos should the demo roll use?"="My own phone photos (Recommended)", "Which voice should narrate the video?"="Piper open-source (Recommended)", "What should happen to the 'I Took It Outside' section?"="I'll walk and tell you". You can now continue with these answers in mind.
Thanks. While you go out for the walk and photos, I'll set up the video pipeline so it's ready when your photos arrive. Starting with the Piper voice and Playwright.
$ python --version 2>&1; py --version 2>&1; pip --version 2>&1 | head -1
Python 3.13.12
Python 3.13.12
pip 25.3 from C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.13)
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "$S" && python -m venv piper-env && ./piper-env/Scripts/python -m pip install -q piper-tts 2>&1 | tail -2 && ./piper-env/Scripts/python -m piper.download_voices en_US-lessac-medium --data-dir "$S/voices" 2>&1 | tail -2; ls "$S/voices"
[notice] A new release of pip is available: 25.3 -> 26.2.1
[notice] To update, run: C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\piper-env\Scripts\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
INFO:__main__:Downloaded: en_US-lessac-medium
en_US-lessac-medium.onnx
en_US-lessac-medium.onnx.json
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "$S" && echo "Every go outside app has the same bug. It's an app." | ./piper-env/Scripts/python -m piper -m voices/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx -f test.wav 2>&1 | tail -1; ls -la test.wav; cd ff && npm i -s playwright 2>&1 | tail -1; npx playwright install chromium 2>&1 | tail -2
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 146988 Oct 6 00:50 test.wav
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "$S/ff" && node -e "const {chromium}=require('playwright');chromium.launch().then(async b=>{const p=await b.newPage();await p.goto('https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app');console.log(await p.title());await b.close()})" 2>&1 | tail -3
Touch Grass, Not Glass
The video tools are installed and tested:
- ffmpeg handles the editing.
- Piper works with a natural US English voice; I generated a test line offline.
- Playwright opens and drives your live Vercel app.
When your photos arrive, I'll record the app, develop the photos with Gemma, add the narration and title cards, and edit everything into the final video.
What to do on your walk (20โ30 minutes is enough):
1. On your phone, open https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app and tap Load film.
2. Follow the quests and take a photo for each one. Keep the phone in your pocket in between.
3. When you're done, tap finish roll, then Export roll. Also take 1โ2 normal phone screenshots of the black quest screen; they'll look great in the video.
4. Send me:
- the exported roll .json file, or the 4โ6 photos, saved into the touch glass folder or your Downloads
- a few lines on how it went: where you walked, how long, the glass-free % the app showed, your favourite find, and anything that surprised you
As soon as those arrive, I'll make the video and GIF, finish the post, fill it into DEV, and ask for your yes before publishing. Deadline: Oct 11, 11:59 PM.
i opened this on my phone
https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/ but cant understand what exactly to do there.. explain in a layman launguage like a little kid
for the walk hmmm its late night here, get a beauitiful natural pictures for it
Here's how to use the app, explained simply:
It's a treasure hunt for outside. ๐ณ
- Tap "Load film." The app gives you a little list of things to find, like "find a leaf that a bug took a bite out of."
- The screen goes black and shows one thing to find. That's your mission.
- Put your phone away and go look for it. Look at trees, the ground, the sky.
- Found it? Take out your phone and tap the big round gold button. That takes the photo.
- The next mission appears. Repeat. (Can't find one? Tap skip.)
- Back home, tap "Develop roll." The robot looks at your photos and tells you if you found the right thing. It also writes a cute little note about each one, like a nature diary. ๐
The goal is to look at your phone as little as possible. The app even tells you how much of your walk you didn't look at the screen.
One catch: the "robot checking your photos" part only works on your computer, because that's where the AI lives. On the phone you just hunt and take photos.
You're right that the app doesn't explain this itself. I'll add a simple "How it works" box to the home page. Then I'll get beautiful, freely licensed nature photos for the demo.
$ cd "$TEMP" && cat > wm.mjs <<'EOF'
const qs = process.argv.slice(2);
for (const q of qs) {
const u = new URL('https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php');
Object.entries({action:'query',format:'json',generator:'search',gsrsearch:`${q} filetype:bitmap incategory:Quality_images`,gsrnamespace:'6',gsrlimit:'4',prop:'imageinfo',iiprop:'url|extmetadata|size',iiurlwidth:'1080'}).forEach(([k,v])=>u.searchParams.set(k,v));
const r = await fetch(u,{headers:{'User-Agent':'touch-grass-demo/1.0 (hacktoberfest demo)'}}); const j = await r.json();
console.log('## '+q);
for (const p of Object.values(j.query?.pages||{})) { const ii=p.imageinfo[0], m=ii.extmetadata;
console.log(' ', p.title, '|', m.LicenseShortName?.value, '|', (m.Artist?.value||'').replace(/<[^>]+>/g,'').trim().slice(0,40), '|', ii.width+'x'+ii.height, '|', ii.thumburl); }
}
EOF
node wm.mjs "red maple leaf autumn fallen" "oak bark texture" "sunlight through leaves forest" "snail on stone" "squirrel acorn" "moss close-up" 2>&1
## red maple leaf autumn fallen
File:Maple leaf held up in autumn, Vieux-Limoilou.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wilfredor | 6209x4000 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Maple_leaf_held_up_in_autumn%2C_Vieux-Limoilou.jpg/1280px-Maple_leaf_held_up_in_autumn%2C_Vieux-Limoilou.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
## oak bark texture
File:Senden, Venner Moor -- 2013 -- 2345.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Dietmar Rabich | 3456x5184 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Senden%2C_Venner_Moor_--_2013_--_2345.jpg/1280px-Senden%2C_Venner_Moor_--_2013_--_2345.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
File:Dรผlmen, Wildpark, Eiche am Herzteich -- 2022 -- 4616.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Dietmar Rabich | 6720x4480 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/D%C3%BClmen%2C_Wildpark%2C_Eiche_am_Herzteich_--_2022_--_4616.jpg/1280px-D%C3%BClmen%2C_Wildpark%2C_Eiche_am_Herzteich_--_2022_--_4616.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
## sunlight through leaves forest
File:Grib skov.jpg | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Malene Thyssen | 1810x1700 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Grib_skov.jpg/1280px-Grib_skov.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
File:Dรผlmen, Wildpark -- 2017 -- 6019.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Dietmar Rabich | 5472x3648 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/D%C3%BClmen%2C_Wildpark_--_2017_--_6019.jpg/1280px-D%C3%BClmen%2C_Wildpark_--_2017_--_6019.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
File:Dรผlmen, Bรถrnste, Middlers Heide -- 2021 -- 6883-5.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Dietmar Rabich | 6700x3769 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/D%C3%BClmen%2C_B%C3%B6rnste%2C_Middlers_Heide_--_2021_--_6883-5.jpg/1280px-D%C3%BClmen%2C_B%C3%B6rnste%2C_Middlers_Heide_--_2021_--_6883-5.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
File:Weg auf der Ostseite des Galgenfeldsees bei Haรfurt.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Stephan van Helden | 4000x6000 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Weg_auf_der_Ostseite_des_Galgenfeldsees_bei_Ha%C3%9Ffurt.jpg/1280px-Weg_auf_der_Ostseite_des_Galgenfeldsees_bei_Ha%C3%9Ffurt.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
## snail on stone
File:Schwarzer-Schnegel-Limax-cinereoniger.JPG | CC BY 3.0 | Holger Krisp | 3000x2037 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Schwarzer-Schnegel-Limax-cinereoniger.JPG/1280px-Schwarzer-Schnegel-Limax-cinereoniger.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
File:Xenophora mekranensis konoi 01.JPG | CC BY-SA 3.0 | H. Zell | 11000x6152 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Xenophora_mekranensis_konoi_01.JPG/1280px-Xenophora_mekranensis_konoi_01.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
## squirrel acorn
File:Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris fuscoater) black variant Meidling 2.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Charles J. Sharp | 5717x3812 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Red_squirrel_%28Sciurus_vulgaris_fuscoater%29_black_variant_Meidling_2.jpg/1280px-Red_squirrel_%28Sciurus_vulgaris_fuscoater%29_black_variant_Meidling_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
File:20251016 american red squirrel matthei botanical garden PD204936 1.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Paul Danese | 5009x3339 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/20251016_american_red_squirrel_matthei_botanical_garden_PD204936_1.jpg/1280px-20251016_american_red_squirrel_matthei_botanical_garden_PD204936_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
File:20251016 american red squirrel matthei botanical garden PD204941 1.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Paul Danese | 3856x3523 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/20251016_american_red_squirrel_matthei_botanical_garden_PD204941_1.jpg/1280px-20251016_american_red_squirrel_matthei_botanical_garden_PD204941_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
## moss close-up
File:2013-02-03 15-35-26-goutte.jpg | CC BY 3.0 | Thomas Bresson | 3273x2546 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/2013-02-03_15-35-26-goutte.jpg/1280px-2013-02-03_15-35-26-goutte.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
File:2013-02-03 15-51-49-goutte.jpg | CC BY 3.0 | Thomas Bresson | 2765x1937 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/2013-02-03_15-51-49-goutte.jpg/1280px-2013-02-03_15-51-49-goutte.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
File:2013-02-03 15-53-04-goutte.jpg | CC BY 3.0 | Thomas Bresson | 3648x2736 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/2013-02-03_15-53-04-goutte.jpg/1280px-2013-02-03_15-53-04-goutte.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
File:2013-02-03 16-00-41-goutte.jpg | CC BY 3.0 | Thomas Bresson | 1855x3648 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/2013-02-03_16-00-41-goutte.jpg/1280px-2013-02-03_16-00-41-goutte.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
Shell cwd was reset to C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass
I've found strong licensed photos. Getting one more, for the sky quest:
$ cd "$TEMP" && node wm.mjs "autumn tree clouds blue sky" "cumulus clouds over autumn forest" 2>&1 | cut -c1-200
## autumn tree clouds blue sky
File:Old water tower in New Bavaria (autumn 2017).jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Lystopad | 4608x3072 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Old_water_tower_in_New_Bavaria_%28autumn_2017%2
File:Vltava river in Prague.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Dmitry A. Mottl | 5419x3613 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Vltava_river_in_Prague.jpg/1280px-Vltava_river_in_Prague.jpg?u
File:Hain Eiche Herbst 121696.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Ermell | 3888x5184 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Hain_Eiche_Herbst_121696.jpg/1280px-Hain_Eiche_Herbst_121696.jpg?utm_
File:20201019 Alte Brรผcke Saarbrรผcken.jpg | CC BY 4.0 | Flocci Nivis | 5611x3746 | https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/20201019_Alte_Br%C3%BCcke_Saarbr%C3%BCcken.jpg/1280px-20
## cumulus clouds over autumn forest
Shell cwd was reset to C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && mkdir -p photos && cat > "$TEMP/dl.mjs" <<'EOF'
import { writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
const files = [
['1-maple.jpg','File:Maple leaf held up in autumn, Vieux-Limoilou.jpg'],
['2-oak.jpg','File:Dรผlmen, Wildpark, Eiche am Herzteich -- 2022 -- 4616.jpg'],
['3-light.jpg','File:Grib skov.jpg'],
['4-slug.jpg','File:Schwarzer-Schnegel-Limax-cinereoniger.JPG'],
['5-squirrel.jpg','File:Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris fuscoater) black variant Meidling 2.jpg'],
['6-sky.jpg','File:Hain Eiche Herbst 121696.jpg'],
];
const credits = [];
for (const [out, title] of files) {
const u = new URL('https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php');
Object.entries({action:'query',format:'json',titles:title,prop:'imageinfo',iiprop:'url|extmetadata',iiurlwidth:'1280'}).forEach(([k,v])=>u.searchParams.set(k,v));
const H={headers:{'User-Agent':'touch-grass-demo/1.0 (hacktoberfest demo)'}};
const p = Object.values((await (await fetch(u,H)).json()).query.pages)[0], ii = p.imageinfo[0], m = ii.extmetadata;
writeFileSync('photos/'+out, Buffer.from(await (await fetch(ii.thumburl,H)).arrayBuffer()));
credits.push(`${out}: "${title.slice(5)}" by ${(m.Artist?.value||'').replace(/<[^>]+>/g,'').trim()}, ${m.LicenseShortName.value}, ${ii.descriptionurl}`);
}
writeFileSync('photos/CREDITS.txt', credits.join('\n')+'\n'); console.log(credits.join('\n'));
EOF
node "$TEMP/dl.mjs" && ls -la photos
Exit code 1
<anonymous_script>:1
You are making too many requests to the API.
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'Y', "You are ma"... is not valid JSON
at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
at parseJSONFromBytes (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:4387:19)
at successSteps (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:7041:27)
at readAllBytes (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:5958:13)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:104:5)
Node.js v24.18.0
Wikimedia is rate-limiting me, so I'll slow down and add retries:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && sed -i "s|const H={headers|await new Promise(r=>setTimeout(r,4000)); const H={headers|" "$TEMP/dl.mjs" && sed -i "s|writeFileSync('photos/'+out, Buffer.from(await (await fetch(ii.thumburl,H)).arrayBuffer()));|await new Promise(r=>setTimeout(r,4000)); let res; for (let t=0;t<5;t++){ res=await fetch(ii.thumburl,H); if(res.ok) break; await new Promise(r=>setTimeout(r,8000*(t+1))); } if(!res.ok) throw new Error(out+' '+res.status); writeFileSync('photos/'+out, Buffer.from(await res.arrayBuffer()));|" "$TEMP/dl.mjs" && sleep 20; node "$TEMP/dl.mjs" && ls -la photos
1-maple.jpg: "Maple leaf held up in autumn, Vieux-Limoilou.jpg" by Wilfredor, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maple_leaf_held_up_in_autumn,_Vieux-Limoilou.jpg
2-oak.jpg: "Dรผlmen, Wildpark, Eiche am Herzteich -- 2022 -- 4616.jpg" by Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%BClmen,_Wildpark,_Eiche_am_Herzteich_--_2022_--_4616.jpg
3-light.jpg: "Grib skov.jpg" by Malene Thyssen, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grib_skov.jpg
4-slug.jpg: "Schwarzer-Schnegel-Limax-cinereoniger.JPG" by Holger Krisp, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schwarzer-Schnegel-Limax-cinereoniger.JPG
5-squirrel.jpg: "Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris fuscoater) black variant Meidling 2.jpg" by Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_squirrel_(Sciurus_vulgaris_fuscoater)_black_variant_Meidling_2.jpg
6-sky.jpg: "Hain Eiche Herbst 121696.jpg" by Ermell, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hain_Eiche_Herbst_121696.jpg
total 3280
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 00:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 00:51 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 172335 Oct 6 00:52 1-maple.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 603535 Oct 6 00:52 2-oak.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 828962 Oct 6 00:52 3-light.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 416357 Oct 6 00:52 4-slug.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 303655 Oct 6 00:53 5-squirrel.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 1010367 Oct 6 00:53 6-sky.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 1040 Oct 6 00:53 CREDITS.txt
Got all six photos with credits. Making a quick contact sheet to check them:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/photos" && "$FF" -v error -y -i 1-maple.jpg -i 2-oak.jpg -i 3-light.jpg -i 4-slug.jpg -i 5-squirrel.jpg -i 6-sky.jpg -filter_complex "[0]scale=300:300:force_original_aspect_ratio=increase,crop=300:300[a];[1]scale=300:300:force_original_aspect_ratio=increase,crop=300:300[b];[2]scale=300:300:force_original_aspect_ratio=increase,crop=300:300[c];[3]scale=300:300:force_original_aspect_ratio=increase,crop=300:300[d];[4]scale=300:300:force_original_aspect_ratio=increase,crop=300:300[e];[5]scale=300:300:force_original_aspect_ratio=increase,crop=300:300[f];[a][b][c][d][e][f]xstack=inputs=6:layout=0_0|300_0|600_0|0_300|300_300|600_300" "$S/photos.jpg" && echo ok
ok
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\photos.jpg
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\index.html
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\index.html has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\style.css
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\style.css has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w "local %{http_code}\n" http://localhost:5173/; curl -s https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/ | grep -c 'class="how"'
local 200
1
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\record.mjs
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\record.mjs (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\app.js
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\app.js has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && rm -rf video && FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node record.mjs > record.log 2>&1; echo exit $?
Command running in background with ID: beaic3axk. Output is being written to: C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tasks\beaic3axk.output. You will be notified when it completes. To check interim output, use Read on that file path.
Session cwd remains C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass; directory changes made by the backgrounded command do not apply to subsequent commands.
While the recording runs, I'm generating the Piper narration lines:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && mkdir -p vo && while IFS='|' read -r id text; do echo "$text" | "$S/piper-env/Scripts/python" -m piper -m "$S/voices/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx" --length-scale 1.08 --sentence-silence 0.25 -f "vo/$id.wav" 2>/dev/null; done <<'EOF'
n1|Every go-outside app has the same bug. It's an app. It wants you to look at it.
n2|So I built the opposite. A camera that only works outside, and won't show you anything until you get home.
n3|Pick where you're heading. Gemma 3, an open-weight model running on my laptop's CPU, no GPU and no cloud, writes you a fresh roll of six field quests for this season.
n4|Then the screen goes dark. One quest, read aloud, and a shutter. No preview. No feed. Phone in pocket. Look up.
n5|Shoot, and the next quest appears. That's the whole field experience.
n6|Back home, you develop the roll. Gemma's vision model looks at each photo, describes what it actually sees, and only then decides if you found it. On a laptop CPU, that takes a couple of minutes a frame. So, put the kettle on.
n8|Your field journal. And the only number the app keeps: how little you looked at the screen.
n9|Open weights mean it works where the signal doesn't. Your photos never leave your devices. And it costs nothing to touch grass. Now, go outside.
EOF
for f in vo/*.wav; do printf "%s " $f; "$S/ff/node_modules/ffprobe-static/bin/win32/x64/ffprobe.exe" -v error -show_entries format=duration -of csv=p=0 $f; done; cat record.log
vo/n1.wav 5.318095
vo/n2.wav 6.240726
vo/n3.wav 10.733787
vo/n4.wav 8.900862
vo/n5.wav 4.417959
vo/n6.wav 14.914104
vo/n8.wav 4.917188
vo/n9.wav 9.956644
node:internal/modules/run_main:107
triggerUncaughtException(
^
page.goto: Download is starting
Call log:
[2m - navigating to "http://localhost:5173/", waiting until "load"[22m
at C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\record.mjs:34:12 {
log: [
' - navigating to "http://localhost:5173/", waiting until "load"'
],
name: 'Error'
}
Node.js v24.18.0
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && grep -n "readFile(join\|types\[extname" serve.mjs
14: const body = await readFile(join(root, path || 'index.html'));
15: res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': types[extname(path || '.html')] || 'application/octet-stream' });
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && sed -i "14s|.*| const file = path \|\| 'index.html';\n const body = await readFile(join(root, file));|; 15s|extname(path \|\| '.html')|extname(file)|" serve.mjs && sed -n '11,20p' serve.mjs
createServer(async (req, res) => {
const path = normalize(decodeURIComponent(new URL(req.url, 'http://x').pathname)).replace(/^[\\/]+/, '');
try {
const file = path || 'index.html';
const body = await readFile(join(root, file));
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': types[extname(file)] || 'application/octet-stream' });
res.end(body);
} catch {
res.writeHead(404).end('not found');
}
{
"serverId": "9d86a9dd-6bda-40fa-a00c-16ecec99ad62"
}
Server 9d86a9dd-6bda-40fa-a00c-16ecec99ad62 stopped
{
"name": "touch-grass"
}
{
"serverId": "a6a3cd79-7603-43c4-8f84-2f36dfd49303",
"port": 5173,
"name": "touch-grass",
"reused": false,
"previewId": "preview-local_535a09e9-2059-446c-8b2e-335af4f240d0",
"tabId": "tab-3"
}
Server started successfully on port 5173. Opened tab "tab-3" at http://localhost:5173. Use tabId "tab-3" with read_page / computer / navigate; serverId is for preview_stop and preview_logs only.
$ curl -sI http://localhost:5173/ | grep -i content-type; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && rm -rf video && FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node record.mjs > record.log 2>&1; echo exit $?
Command running in background with ID: bmzm78vue. Output is being written to: C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tasks\bmzm78vue.output. You will be notified when it completes. To check interim output, use Read on that file path.
Session cwd remains C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass; directory changes made by the backgrounded command do not apply to subsequent commands.
While it records, I'm committing the two fixes:
{"command":"until grep -qE \"frame-1|Error|exit\" \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/record.log\"; do sleep 5; done; cat \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/record.log\"","description":"W...
Monitor started (task bv8tw1r2b, expires in 10m unless the source ends first; you get one notice at expiry โ re-arm if you still need the watch). You will be notified on each event. Keep working โ do not poll or sleep. Events may arrive while you are waiting for the user โ an event is not their reply.
$ sleep 1; cat "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/record.log"
(Bash completed with no output)
{"command":"until [ -s \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/record.log\" ]; do sleep 5; done; sleep 3; cat \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/record.log\"","description":"Wait for first re...
Monitor started (task b9a8f0g3g, expires in 5m unless the source ends first; you get one notice at expiry โ re-arm if you still need the watch). You will be notified on each event. Keep working โ do not poll or sleep. Events may arrive while you are waiting for the user โ an event is not their reply.
I'm waiting for the recording to report progress.
{
"query": "select:TaskStop",
"max_results": 1
}
The demo recording is running now: the real app on your PC, with Gemma writing the quests and developing the six sample photos. It will take about 20 minutes, almost all of it Gemma working on the CPU.
Done so far:
- "How it works" box: four simple steps are now on the home page of the live site, so it makes sense on your phone.
- Six free-to-use nature photos from Wikimedia Commons: a maple leaf, oak bark, sunlight through a forest, a slug, a squirrel, and an autumn tree. All are credited, and the video will say they're sample photos.
- Narration: I've recorded the voice-over lines with the free Piper voice.
- Local server fixed: the app's local server was sending the home page as a file to download instead of showing it. That's why the browser couldn't open it earlier. The fix is pushed to GitHub.
One honest test is in the roll: one quest asks for a snail, but the photo shows a slug. If Gemma catches that, it's a great moment for the video; if it doesn't, we'll say so.
Still to do:
- Edit the recording into a 1080p video with narration and captions, plus a short GIF for the post.
- Put the video and Gemma's real verdicts into the post.
- Fill in the post on DEV in your browser, then wait for your yes before clicking Publish.
I'll update you when the recording finishes.
<task-notification>
<task-id>bmzm78vue</task-id>
<tool-use-id>toolu_01Wtv5SZR4wvHpxM4ZV6ApgU</tool-use-id>
<output-file>[REDACTED]\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tasks\bmzm78vue.output</output-file>
<status>completed</status>
<summary>Background command "Verify fix and rerun demo recording" completed (exit code 0)</summary>
</task-notification>
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref"; cat "C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/tasks/bmzm78vue.output"; tail -30 record.log; ls -la video 2>&1; ls marks.json 2>&1
Exit code 2
Content-Type: text/html
exit 1
[exited with code 0]
node:internal/modules/run_main:107
triggerUncaughtException(
^
page.waitForSelector: Timeout 60000ms exceeded.
Call log:
[2m - waiting for locator('#ollamaHealth:has-text("ready")') to be visible[22m
[2m 119 ร locator resolved to hidden <p class="status" id="ollamaHealth">โ gemma3:4b ready on this machine</p>[22m
at C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\record.mjs:37:12 {
log: [
` - waiting for locator('#ollamaHealth:has-text("ready")') to be visible`,
' 119 ร locator resolved to hidden <p class="status" id="ollamaHealth">โ gemma3:4b ready on this machine</p>'
],
name: 'TimeoutError'
}
Node.js v24.18.0
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 00:56 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 00:56 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 00:56 page@c8440f5e5a0d6b994047709f5c1d72bd.webm
ls: cannot access 'marks.json': No such file or directory
The model was ready. My script waited for a status line that sits inside the collapsed Settings panel, so it never became "visible." Fixing that one line and re-running:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && sed -i "s|has-text(\"ready\")', { timeout: 60000 }|has-text(\"ready\")', { state: 'attached', timeout: 60000 }|" record.mjs && grep -n "state: 'attached', timeout: 60000" record.mjs | head -2 && rm -rf video marks.json
37:await page.waitForSelector('#ollamaHealth:has-text("ready")', { state: 'attached', timeout: 60000 });
89:await page.waitForSelector('#develop[hidden]', { state: 'attached', timeout: 60000 }).catch(() => {});
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node record.mjs > record.log 2>&1; echo exit $?
Command running in background with ID: bty3n4xit. Output is being written to: C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tasks\bty3n4xit.output. You will be notified when it completes. To check interim output, use Read on that file path.
Session cwd remains C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref; directory changes made by the backgrounded command do not apply to subsequent commands.
{"command":"cd \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref\"; n=0; while true; do c=$(grep -cE \"name|Error\" record.log 2>/dev/null); if [ \"$c\" != \"$n\" ]; then grep -E \"name|Error\" record.log | t...
Monitor started (task bfb98e0ob, expires in 30m unless the source ends first; you get one notice at expiry โ re-arm if you still need the watch). You will be notified on each event. Keep working โ do not poll or sleep. Events may arrive while you are waiting for the user โ an event is not their reply.
The recording is running again with the fix. I'm following its progress through each scene: quests written live, the dark field screen, six photos, then Gemma developing them.
$ sleep 2; cat "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/record.log"
{ name: 'home', t: 1.029 }
{ name: 'load-live', t: 8.818 }
The recording is moving: the home page is captured and Gemma is writing the live quests. Meanwhile I'm writing the editing script that turns the raw recording into the final video.
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\compose.mjs
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\compose.mjs (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
The editing script is ready. The one narration line about Gemma's verdicts will be written after I see what Gemma actually decides. Waiting on the recording now.
$ cat "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/record.log"
{ name: 'home', t: 1.029 }
{ name: 'load-live', t: 8.818 }
{ name: 'field-live', t: 51.486 }
Gemma wrote the live forest-trail roll in about 43 seconds, and field mode is showing. The demo roll and darkroom come next; developing the photos will take roughly 15 minutes. I'll wait for the scene events.
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The demo roll has started and the sample photos are going in through the real shutter. Waiting for Gemma to develop them.
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Three of six photos are taken. Still recording.
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Five of six photos are taken. The darkroom starts next.
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All six photos are in, and Gemma has started developing the roll. At about 2 minutes per photo on this CPU, that's roughly 15 minutes.
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Frame 1 (the maple leaf) took about 2ยผ minutes to develop. Five to go.
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The oak bark is done too: 2 of 6 developed.
show me the video when it's done
and i want you to walwalk and click each link here
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For โTouch Grass, Not Glass,โ Iโd pull inspiration from three different directions rather than copying one app. Your product needs to feel calm, outdoorsy, and premium while deliberately reducing screen engagement.
1. Aluna, calm AI + minimal mobile UI
Aluna UI/UX case study
This is probably the closest match for the overall polish you want. The design intentionally reduces stimulation, which fits your idea of sending the user outside instead of keeping them in the app. (U1Core)
Borrow:
- Large typography
- Lots of breathing room
- Soft natural colors
- One clear action per screen
- Calm transitions
- Minimal navigation
- Premium mobile-app feel
For your app, I'd adapt this into a very sparse โField Modeโ where the quest is almost the only thing visible.
2. Lumo, nature + journal + intentional UX
Lumo mindfulness app case study
Lumo is especially useful for your journal side. It combines outdoor/wellness thinking with journaling and deliberately avoids the competitive feeling of typical habit apps. (Hunter Bastian)
Borrow:
- Natural palette
- Field-journal feeling
- Simple daily entry
- Gentle progress indicators
- โMinutes away from screenโ as your main metric
- Photo + short written observation
Your โPressed Leafโ journal could feel like a modern field notebook rather than a conventional AI app.
3. Dribbble Wellness + Journal collections, for component polish
Dribbble wellness app UI collection
Dribbble journal app UI collection
Use these specifically for micro-UI inspiration rather than copying an entire visual identity. There are useful patterns for cards, journal entries, mood/condition indicators, bottom navigation, empty states, and mobile interactions. (Dribbble)
For Touch Grass, I'd build the UI around this structure:
HOME
โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Good morning
12 min away from screen
Today's field quest
โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ โ
โ Find something โ
โ alive on a leaf. โ
โ โ
โ START โ โ
โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
12 min
outside
Journal Settings
Then when they start:
FIELD MODE
โ
Find something alive
on a leaf.
Listen first.
Look slowly.
[ I FOUND IT ]
Almost everything disappears.
After the photo:
FIELD NOTE
โ Find verified
Wild leaf with a
small insect resting
beneath the surface.
18 minutes outside
[ SAVE TO JOURNAL ]
And the journal should feel like this:
MY FIELD JOURNAL
18 min 42 min 27 min
outside outside outside
โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Oct 06
A tiny visitor
on a wild leaf.
[photo]
"Somewhere between
looking and noticing."
โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Oct 05
...
The key design decision I'd keep throughout the build is: the app should become visually quieter as the user gets closer to going outside.
That gives you a much stronger product identity than making another attractive wellness dashboard. It also directly reinforces the Hacktoberfest theme.
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modify the uix with this make it more great
Got it. I'll visit each of the four links for inspiration, then redesign the app. One heads-up: the video being recorded now shows the current design. Once the redesign is done, I'll record it again (about 20 minutes, mostly Gemma) so the final video shows the new look. Visiting the links now:
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Aluna
UI/UX Design
Mobile Design
Aluna is a calm, AI-powered wellness app that helps users balance mind, body and soul through mindful check-ins, gentle guidance, and immersive minimal iOS UI.
A wellness app concept built around calm, clarity, and daily rhythm. AI-powered check-ins, minimal iOS screens, and a visual language designed to reduce stimulation โ not add to it.
Title
Task
The task was to design a full mobile UI concept for Aluna โ an AI-powered wellness app for iOS. The goal was to create an experience that feels genuinely calm: one that helps users build a consistent mind-body-soul practice without overwhelming them with content, metrics, or decisions.
Title
Challenge
Most wellness apps contradict their own purpose. Theyโre busy, notification-heavy, and data-obsessed โ the opposite of what someone trying to slow down actually needs. The challenge was to design an experience that reduces stimulation at every step. Every screen, every interaction, every piece of copy had to earn its place by making the user feel calmer, not more engaged.
Results
The result is a minimal, immersive iOS UI that guides users through daily wellness rituals without friction or noise. Soft visual language, gentle transitions, and a focused information hierarchy create an app that feels like a pause โ not another thing to manage. AI-powered check-ins surface the right prompts at the right moment, adapting to the userโs rhythm rather than demanding they adapt to the app.
Screens:
40+
Hours:
85+
Team members:
6+
Project Timeline
Research
The research phase focused on understanding how people actually use wellness apps โ and where they stop. The key insight: most users abandon wellness apps within two weeks, not because the content is bad, but because the experience feels like another obligation. We mapped the emotional journey of someone trying to build a wellness habit and designed around the moments where drop-off typically happens.
Briefing
The brief called for a wellness app that felt genuinely different from the category. Not another tracker. Not another content library. A daily companion that meets the user where they are โ calm, focused, and free of the visual noise that makes most health apps feel like work.
UX Research
UX research focused on the onboarding flow and daily check-in experience. We tested how much information users were willing to engage with at different times of day, and what prompts actually shifted their mood or behavior. The findings shaped a check-in flow that takes under 60 seconds and always ends with one clear, actionable insight.
Moodboard
The moodboard drew from meditation spaces, natural textures, and minimal iOS design systems. Soft gradients, generous white space, muted earth tones, and fluid typography. The reference point was an experience that feels like taking a breath โ before the user has even done anything.
Design Concepts
Two design directions were explored: one built around a dark, immersive night-mode aesthetic; the other around a soft, light palette that shifts throughout the day. The final concept merged both โ a dynamic visual system that adapts to morning, afternoon, and evening sessions, reinforcing the appโs core message: wellness has a rhythm.
UI Design
The UI design delivered a complete iOS screen set โ onboarding, home, check-in flow, mind/body/soul modules, progress view, and settings. Every component was designed to feel effortless: large touch targets, minimal navigation, and typography that reads clearly without demanding attention. The result is a UI system that disappears into the experience.
UI Kit & Closing
The final deliverable included a complete UI kit with components, color tokens, typography scales, and spacing guidelines โ everything needed to hand off to development or extend the design system as the product grows.
We wireframed the authentication and onboarding screens to validate layout, hierarchy, and form usability. Prototypes helped refine field behavior, error states, and the path to account creation, ensuring a smooth and intuitive first-time experience for users
Title
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02The ProblemFitness and wellness apps feel noisy and competitive โ reflection gets skipped. People want to get outside more, but cues and feedback loops are weak. It's hard to see whether outdoor time actually improves mood or energy because mood journaling lives in one app and fitness tracking in another.The GoalDesign an intuitive interface that promotes consistency without overwhelming the user. Habit tracking meets wellness awareness in a peaceful, distraction-free environment. The experience should feel calming, intentional, and private.Three pain points surfaced early:
Fitness apps feel noisy and comparative, killing motivation
Too many taps and permissions to start and end a simple session
Mood journaling is separate from activity โ no clear correlation between what you do and how you feel
03Research & DirectionCompetitive AnalysisLooking at what other apps were doing helped give direction to where Lumo could stand out. AllTrails is a hiking app for tracking stats and finding new places. How We Feel is a mood tracking app. Taking inspiration from both, the goal was to make an app that could be reflective while you either hike or mood track โ connecting activity to reflection in one place.Research Questions
How do users naturally reflect on their day or mental state?
What makes a mindfulness or journaling app feel calm and easy to use?
How do users prefer to track progress without feeling overwhelmed?
MethodologyConducted usability testing using a low-fidelity prototype in Figma with a small group of family and friends. Participants were asked to complete tasks such as logging in, choosing a focus, journaling, and checking goals and milestones. Observed their interactions, recorded paths, noted confusion points, and collected feedback.
04InsightsThree friction points discovered through usability testing shaped the final design.Chosen directionChosen directionChosen direction
05Design SystemA 6-color palette and Swiza type scale kept the visual language calm and distraction-free across the whole app. Reusable components โ hamburger overlay, nav bar, and back button โ were built so every screen stayed structurally consistent without redesigning from scratch.Responsive Design
Mobile first: Single-column layout keeps the experience focused for on-the-go logging and reflection
Tablet & desktop: Expanded panels give users more breathing room to review and engage deeply at home
Designed across 3 platforms including mobile, tablet, and desktop to explore how Lumo scales. Mapped
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I've read Aluna and Lumo; now looking at the Dribbble collections.
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$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref"; ls marks.json && node -e "const j=require('./marks.json');console.log(j.liveQuests);j.verdicts.forEach(v=>console.log('---\n'+v))"
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I've visited all four links. The recording process seems stuck closing down, so I'll check it:
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15520 10/6/2026 12:35:44 AM 1.40625
15576 10/6/2026 12:35:05 AM 34.84375
Tue Oct 6 01:15:46 WCAST 2026
{
"command": "until [ -f \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/marks.json\" ]; do sleep 3; done; echo marks ready",
"description": "Wait for recording to write marks.json",
"timeout_ms": 180000
}
Monitor started (task bt5a5e6ut, expires in 3m unless the source ends first; you get one notice at expiry โ re-arm if you still need the watch). You will be notified on each event. Keep working โ do not poll or sleep. Events may arrive while you are waiting for the user โ an event is not their reply.
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && mkdir -p assets/fonts assets/samples && UA="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/130 Safari/537.36"; for fam in "Fraunces:ital,opsz,wght@0,9..144,300..600;1,9..144,300..500" "Inter:wght@400..600"; do curl -s -A "$UA" "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=$fam&display=swap" ; done > "$TEMP/fonts.css"; grep -B3 "src: url" "$TEMP/fonts.css" | grep -E "font-family|font-style|/\* latin \*/|src" | head -40
font-style: italic;
src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/fraunces/v38/6NU58FyLNQOQZAnv9ZwNjucMHVn85Ni7emAe9lKqZTnbB-gzTK0K1ChjdfeQ_5Y.woff2) format('woff2');
font-style: italic;
src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/fraunces/v38/6NU58FyLNQOQZAnv9ZwNjucMHVn85Ni7emAe9lKqZTnbB-gzTK0K1ChjdPeQ_5Y.woff2) format('woff2');
font-style: italic;
src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/fraunces/v38/6NU58FyLNQOQZAnv9ZwNjucMHVn85Ni7emAe9lKqZTnbB-gzTK0K1ChjeveQ.woff2) format('woff2');
font-style: normal;
src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/fraunces/v38/6NU78FyLNQOQZAnv9bYEvDiIdE9Ea92uemAk_WBq8U_9v0c2Wa0KxCBTeO-U.woff2) format('woff2');
font-style: normal;
src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/fraunces/v38/6NU78FyLNQOQZAnv9bYEvDiIdE9Ea92uemAk_WBq8U_9v0c2Wa0KxCFTeO-U.woff2) format('woff2');
font-style: normal;
src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/fraunces/v38/6NU78FyLNQOQZAnv9bYEvDiIdE9Ea92uemAk_WBq8U_9v0c2Wa0KxC9TeA.woff2) format('woff2');
font-style: normal;
src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/inter/v20/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2JL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2');
font-style: normal;
src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/inter/v20/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa0ZL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2');
font-style: normal;
src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/inter/v20/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2ZL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2');
font-style: normal;
src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/inter/v20/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa1pL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2');
font-style: normal;
src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/inter/v20/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2pL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2');
font-style: normal;
src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/inter/v20/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa25L7SUc.woff2) format('woff2');
font-style: normal;
src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/inter/v20/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa1ZL7.woff2) format('woff2');
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/assets/fonts" && curl -s -o fraunces-italic.woff2 https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/fraunces/v38/6NU58FyLNQOQZAnv9ZwNjucMHVn85Ni7emAe9lKqZTnbB-gzTK0K1ChjeveQ.woff2 && curl -s -o fraunces.woff2 https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/fraunces/v38/6NU78FyLNQOQZAnv9bYEvDiIdE9Ea92uemAk_WBq8U_9v0c2Wa0KxC9TeA.woff2 && curl -s -o inter.woff2 https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/inter/v20/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa1ZL7.woff2 && ls -la && file * 2>/dev/null | head
total 196
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 01:16 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 01:16 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 81520 Oct 6 01:16 fraunces-italic.woff2
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 67304 Oct 6 01:16 fraunces.woff2
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 48256 Oct 6 01:16 inter.woff2
fraunces-italic.woff2: Web Open Font Format (Version 2), TrueType, length 81520, version 1.0
fraunces.woff2: Web Open Font Format (Version 2), TrueType, length 67304, version 1.0
inter.woff2: Web Open Font Format (Version 2), TrueType, length 48256, version 1.0
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref"; ls marks.json 2>&1 && node -e "const j=require('./marks.json');console.log(j.liveQuests);j.verdicts.forEach(v=>console.log('---\n'+v))"
Exit code 2
ls: cannot access 'marks.json': No such file or directory
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && for f in _ref/photos/*.jpg; do n=$(basename $f); "$FF" -v error -y -i "$f" -vf "scale=900:-2" -q:v 4 "assets/samples/$n"; done; cp _ref/photos/CREDITS.txt assets/samples/; ls -la assets/samples
total 1316
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 01:16 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 01:16 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 60917 Oct 6 01:16 1-maple.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 243168 Oct 6 01:16 2-oak.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 342650 Oct 6 01:16 3-light.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 161446 Oct 6 01:16 4-slug.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 121535 Oct 6 01:16 5-squirrel.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 397335 Oct 6 01:16 6-sky.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 1040 Oct 6 01:16 CREDITS.txt
Fonts and sample photos are in place. Now writing the new design system and the landing page.
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\assets\base.css
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\assets\base.css (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref"; ls marks.json 2>&1 && node -e "const j=require('./marks.json');console.log(j.liveQuests);j.verdicts.forEach(v=>console.log('---\n'+v))"; powershell -NoProfile -Command "Get-Process node | ? Id -eq 12220 | Select Id,CPU"
ls: cannot access 'marks.json': No such file or directory
Id CPU
-- ---
12220 16.84375
The old recording is hanging while it saves the video. You asked me to drop it anyway, so I'm stopping it. Gemma's verdicts will come from the final recording.
{
"task_id": "bty3n4xit"
}
{
"message": "Successfully stopped task: bty3n4xit (cd \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref\" && FF_DIR=\"C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff\" node record.mjs > record.log 2>&1; echo exit $?)",
"task_id": "bty3n4xit",
"task_type": "local_bash",
"command": "cd \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref\" && FF_DIR=\"C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff\" node record.mjs > record.log 2>&1; echo exit $?"
}
For the landing page's sample journal I want real Gemma field notes, not made-up ones. I'm running Gemma on the six photos in the background now:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && cat > _ref/notes.mjs <<'EOF'
import * as o from '../ollama.js';
import { readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
const Q = [
['1-maple','Find and photograph a single, fallen maple leaf displaying vibrant red hues.'],
['2-oak','Locate and capture the texture of rough bark on an ancient oak tree.'],
['3-light','Photograph the dappled sunlight filtering through the branches above you.'],
['4-slug','Discover and document a tiny snail slowly navigating a damp stone.'],
['5-squirrel','Find and photograph evidence of recent squirrel activity โ a buried nut?'],
['6-sky','Capture the shape of the clouds drifting across the autumn sky.'],
];
const out = [];
for (const [id, quest] of Q) {
const t = Date.now();
const v = await o.develop('http://localhost:11434', 'gemma3:4b', quest, readFileSync(`assets/samples/${id}.jpg`).toString('base64'));
out.push({ id, quest, ...v, seconds: Math.round((Date.now() - t) / 1000) });
console.log(JSON.stringify(out.at(-1)));
writeFileSync('assets/samples/notes.json', JSON.stringify({ model: 'gemma3:4b', developedOn: 'laptop CPU (Intel i-series, no GPU)', frames: out }, null, 2));
}
EOF
node _ref/notes.mjs > _ref/notes.log 2>&1; echo exit $?
Command running in background with ID: b7chhe9n2. Output is being written to: C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tasks\b7chhe9n2.output. You will be notified when it completes. To check interim output, use Read on that file path.
Session cwd remains C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref; directory changes made by the backgrounded command do not apply to subsequent commands.
While Gemma works, I'm writing the landing page:
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\index.html
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\index.html has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && sed -i 's|<span class="stage-n">01 ยท Outside</span>|<span class="stage-n">02 ยท Outside</span>|; s|<figcaption><span class="stamp">Found</span><b>Ember of the Maple</b>|<figcaption id="heroCap"><span class="stamp">Found</span><b>Frame 1 ยท maple leaf</b>|' index.html && grep -c "02 ยท Outside\|heroCap" index.html; cat _ref/notes.log
2
Landing page copy is done. Now the landing-page styles:
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\assets\site.css
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\assets\site.css (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\assets\site.js
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\assets\site.js (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && sed -i "s| if (cap \&\& first) cap.querySelector('b').textContent = first.title;| if (cap \&\& first) {\n cap.querySelector('b').textContent = first.title;\n const st = cap.querySelector('.stamp');\n st.textContent = first.matches_quest ? 'Found' : 'Not quite';\n st.classList.toggle('no', !first.matches_quest);\n }|" assets/site.js && grep -n "first.matches" assets/site.js; cat _ref/notes.log
35: st.textContent = first.matches_quest ? 'Found' : 'Not quite';
36: st.classList.toggle('no', !first.matches_quest);
{"id":"1-maple","quest":"Find and photograph a single, fallen maple leaf displaying vibrant red hues.","observation":"A vibrant, orange-red maple leaf rests in a personโs hand, partially obscuring a blurred street scene.","matches_quest":true,"confidence":0.95,"title":"Autumn Maple Leaf","field_note":"The leafโs coloration is remarkably intense, suggesting perhaps a particularly sunny autumn day or a specific cultivar of maple tree. Next time, Iโll be interested to observe the texture of the leafโs veins โ are they consistently fine, or do they vary with age?","species_guess":"Acer rubrum (Red Maple)","seconds":121}
Gemma's first real note is in (maple leaf: found, "Autumn Maple Leaf", 121s). Now redesigning the camera app itself to follow your wireframes:
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\app.html
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\app.html (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\assets\app.css
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\assets\app.css (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
Now the app logic for the new screens:
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\app.js
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\app.js has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\app.js
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\app.js has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && git rm -q --cached style.css 2>/dev/null; rm -f style.css && cat > sw.js <<'EOF'
// Cache the app shell so field mode works with zero signal.
const CACHE = 'touch-grass-v3';
const SHELL = [
'./', 'index.html', 'app.html', 'docs.html', 'app.js', 'ollama.js', 'store.js', 'manifest.webmanifest', 'icon.svg',
'assets/base.css', 'assets/app.css', 'assets/site.css', 'assets/site.js',
'assets/fonts/fraunces.woff2', 'assets/fonts/fraunces-italic.woff2', 'assets/fonts/inter.woff2',
];
self.addEventListener('install', e => {
e.waitUntil(caches.open(CACHE).then(c => c.addAll(SHELL)).then(() => self.skipWaiting()));
});
self.addEventListener('activate', e => {
e.waitUntil(caches.keys().then(keys => Promise.all(keys.filter(k => k !== CACHE).map(k => caches.delete(k)))).then(() => self.clients.claim()));
});
// Network-first for the shell (fresh when online), cache when offline. Never touch model calls.
self.addEventListener('fetch', e => {
const url = new URL(e.request.url);
if (e.request.method !== 'GET' || url.origin !== location.origin) return;
e.respondWith(
fetch(e.request)
.then(res => { const copy = res.clone(); caches.open(CACHE).then(c => c.put(e.request, copy)); return res; })
.catch(() => caches.match(e.request, { ignoreSearch: true }))
);
});
EOF
sed -i 's|"start_url": "./"|"start_url": "./app.html"|; s|"background_color": "#0b0b09"|"background_color": "#f4efe6"|; s|"theme_color": "#0b0b09"|"theme_color": "#f4efe6"|' manifest.webmanifest && sed -i "s|'.woff2': |&|; s|'.json': 'application/json' }|'.json': 'application/json', '.woff2': 'font/woff2', '.jpg': 'image/jpeg', '.png': 'image/png' }|" serve.mjs && grep -c woff2 serve.mjs; cat manifest.webmanifest | head -8; tail -3 _ref/notes.log | cut -c1-200
1
{
"name": "Touch Grass, Not Glass",
"short_name": "Touch Grass",
"description": "A camera that only works outside. Gemma develops your roll at home.",
"start_url": "./app.html",
"display": "standalone",
"background_color": "#f4efe6",
"theme_color": "#f4efe6",
{"id":"3-light","quest":"Photograph the dappled sunlight filtering through the branches above you.","observation":"The photo depicts a dense forest scene with tall trees and vibrant green foliage illu
{"id":"4-slug","quest":"Discover and document a tiny snail slowly navigating a damp stone.","observation":"A large, dark snail is moving slowly across a bed of damp stones and pebbles.","matches_quest
{"id":"5-squirrel","quest":"Find and photograph evidence of recent squirrel activity โ a buried nut?","observation":"A grey squirrel is sitting on a patch of green grass, holding a small nut in its
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\docs.html
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\docs.html (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && sed -i 's|"developedOn": "laptop CPU (Intel i-series, no GPU)"|"developedOn": "laptop CPU, no GPU"|' assets/samples/notes.json && node -e "const j=require('./assets/samples/notes.json');j.frames.forEach(f=>console.log(f.id,f.matches_quest,f.seconds+'s','|',f.title,'|',f.observation,'|',f.species_guess))"
1-maple true 121s | Autumn Maple Leaf | A vibrant, orange-red maple leaf rests in a personโs hand, partially obscuring a blurred street scene. | Acer rubrum (Red Maple)
2-oak true 127s | Ancient Oak Bark | The photograph presents a close-up view of the deeply textured bark of a large oak tree, with a few autumn leaves clinging to its branches. | Quercus (Oak)
3-light true 126s | Sun-Dappled Forest Interior | The photo depicts a dense forest scene with tall trees and vibrant green foliage illuminated by dappled sunlight. | n/a
4-slug true 116s | Black Slug on Stone | A large, dark snail is moving slowly across a bed of damp stones and pebbles. | n/a
5-squirrel true 111s | Opportunistic Nut Retrieval | A grey squirrel is sitting on a patch of green grass, holding a small nut in its paws. | Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
6-sky true 123s | Autumn Sky Silhouette | The photograph depicts a lone, mature tree with vibrant autumn foliage set against a clear blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds. | Oak (Quercus spp.)
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && sed -i 's|Nothing was edited, including the frame it got stricter about.|Nothing was edited, including two mistakes. It titled frame 4 a <i>slug</i> but still counted it as the snail it was asked for, and it called a black red squirrel an Eastern Gray. Small models on a CPU aren'"'"'t field guides. That'"'"'s why the notes say what the model <i>saw</i>, and why open weights matter: you can swap in a bigger model or fine-tune one.|' index.html && sed -i 's|In our sample roll, <code>gemma3:4b</code> called a slug a snail.|In our sample roll, <code>gemma3:4b</code> titled a photo "Black Slug on Stone" but still counted it as the snail the quest asked for, and it called a black-coated red squirrel an Eastern Gray.|' docs.html && grep -c "Eastern Gray" index.html docs.html
index.html:1
docs.html:1
[This command modified 2 files you've previously read: docs.html, index.html. Call Read before editing.]
Now a visual check: screenshots of the landing page, docs, and every app screen at phone and desktop sizes. Restarting the local server first so it picks up the new font and image types:
{
"serverId": "a6a3cd79-7603-43c4-8f84-2f36dfd49303"
}
Server a6a3cd79-7603-43c4-8f84-2f36dfd49303 stopped
{
"name": "touch-grass"
}
{
"serverId": "6b0d83c0-720d-4c3e-8a14-2a9fb9c11981",
"port": 5173,
"name": "touch-grass",
"reused": false,
"previewId": "preview-local_535a09e9-2059-446c-8b2e-335af4f240d0",
"tabId": "tab-4"
}
Server started successfully on port 5173. Opened tab "tab-4" at http://localhost:5173. Use tabId "tab-4" with read_page / computer / navigate; serverId is for preview_stop and preview_logs only.
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && mkdir -p shots && cat > shots.mjs <<'EOF'
import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
const require = createRequire(process.env.FF_DIR + '/');
const { chromium } = require('playwright');
const b = await chromium.launch();
const errors = [];
async function page(w, h, mobile) {
const ctx = await b.newContext({ viewport: { width: w, height: h }, deviceScaleFactor: 1, isMobile: mobile, hasTouch: mobile });
const p = await ctx.newPage();
p.on('console', m => m.type() === 'error' && errors.push(m.text()));
p.on('pageerror', e => errors.push(e.message));
return p;
}
const d = await page(1440, 900, false);
await d.goto('http://localhost:5173/'); await d.waitForTimeout(1500);
await d.evaluate(() => document.querySelectorAll('.reveal').forEach(e => e.classList.add('in')));
await d.screenshot({ path: 'shots/landing-desktop.png', fullPage: true });
await d.goto('http://localhost:5173/docs.html'); await d.waitForTimeout(800);
await d.screenshot({ path: 'shots/docs-desktop.png' });
const m = await page(390, 844, true);
await m.goto('http://localhost:5173/'); await m.waitForTimeout(1500);
await m.evaluate(() => document.querySelectorAll('.reveal').forEach(e => e.classList.add('in')));
await m.screenshot({ path: 'shots/landing-mobile.png', fullPage: true });
await m.goto('http://localhost:5173/app.html'); await m.waitForTimeout(2500);
await m.screenshot({ path: 'shots/app-today.png' });
await m.click('[data-tab=settings]'); await m.waitForTimeout(500);
await m.screenshot({ path: 'shots/app-settings.png' });
console.log('errors:', errors, 'hscroll:', await m.evaluate(() => document.documentElement.scrollWidth));
await b.close();
EOF
FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node shots.mjs
errors: [] hscroll: 390
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\shots\landing-desktop.png
[Image: original 1440x6536, displayed at 441x2000. Multiply coordinates by 3.27 to map to original image.]
The landing page is coming together well. Checking the hero and the dark card up close; the dark card looks washed out, which may just be its fade-in animation caught mid-way:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/shots" && "$FF" -v error -y -i landing-desktop.png -vf "crop=1440:900:0:0" hero.png && "$FF" -v error -y -i landing-desktop.png -vf "crop=1440:620:0:1280" stages.png && echo ok
ok
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\shots\hero.png
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\shots\stages.png
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\shots\app-today.png
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/shots" && "$FF" -v error -y -i landing-mobile.png -vf "crop=390:1700:0:0" lm-top.png && echo ok
ok
The camera's Today screen matches your wireframe: greeting, a big "minutes away" number, one clear action, and a quiet tab bar. Checking the landing page on a phone:
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\shots\lm-top.png
Two phone-size fixes are needed: the logo and button in the top bar wrap awkwardly, and the photo card covers the phone's button. Fixing both:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && sed -i 's| Touch Grass, <em>Not Glass</em>\n </a>|X|' index.html && for f in index.html docs.html; do perl -0pi -e 's|(<svg viewBox="0 0 32 32" aria-hidden="true">.*?</svg>\n)(\s*)Touch Grass, <em>Not Glass</em>|$1$2Touch Grass<span class="logo-tail">, <em>Not Glass</em></span>|s' $f; done && grep -c "logo-tail" index.html docs.html && cat >> assets/site.css <<'EOF'
/* nav + hero refinements */
.logo, .btn { white-space: nowrap; }
.hero-art { padding-bottom: 120px; }
.hero-card { width: 180px; bottom: 0; right: max(0px, calc(50% - 260px)); }
@media (max-width: 520px) {
.logo-tail { display: none; }
.hero-card { width: 160px; }
}
EOF
echo ok
index.html:1
docs.html:1
ok
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\record.mjs
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\record.mjs has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
Before the 20-minute recording, a quick 30-second dry run through every screen, with Gemma stubbed out, to catch bugs and see each screen:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && cat > dry.mjs <<'EOF'
import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
const require = createRequire(process.env.FF_DIR + '/');
const { chromium } = require('playwright');
const b = await chromium.launch();
const ctx = await b.newContext({ viewport: { width: 390, height: 844 }, isMobile: true, hasTouch: true });
const p = await ctx.newPage(); const errs = [];
p.on('pageerror', e => errs.push(e.message)); p.on('console', m => m.type() === 'error' && errs.push(m.text()));
await p.route('**/api/chat', (route, req) => {
const body = JSON.parse(req.postData());
const content = body.messages[0].images
? { observation: 'A test observation.', matches_quest: Math.random() > .3, confidence: .8, title: 'Test Specimen', field_note: 'A gentle test note about the thing. Look closer next time.', species_guess: 'n/a' }
: { quests: ['Find a leaf that something has already taken a bite out of.', 'Q2', 'Q3', 'Q4', 'Q5', 'Q6'] };
route.fulfill({ json: { message: { content: JSON.stringify(content) } } });
});
await p.goto('http://localhost:5173/app.html'); await p.evaluate(() => indexedDB.deleteDatabase('touch-grass')); await p.reload();
await p.waitForSelector('#modelPill.ok');
await p.click('#loadRoll'); await p.waitForSelector('#ready:not([hidden])'); await p.waitForTimeout(600);
await p.screenshot({ path: 'shots/a-ready.png' });
await p.click('#startWalk'); await p.waitForTimeout(600);
await p.screenshot({ path: 'shots/b-field.png' });
const photos = ['1-maple','2-oak','3-light','4-slug','5-squirrel','6-sky'];
for (const [i, n] of photos.entries()) { await p.setInputFiles('#shutter', `photos/${n}.jpg`); await p.waitForTimeout(500); if (i === 1) await p.screenshot({ path: 'shots/c-field2.png' }); }
await p.waitForSelector('#done:not([hidden])'); await p.waitForTimeout(500);
await p.screenshot({ path: 'shots/d-done.png' });
await p.click('#toJournal'); await p.waitForTimeout(600);
await p.screenshot({ path: 'shots/e-journal-undev.png' });
await p.click('[data-act="develop"]'); await p.waitForFunction(() => document.querySelectorAll('.entry .stamp').length >= 6);
await p.evaluate(() => scrollTo(0, 0)); await p.waitForTimeout(500);
await p.screenshot({ path: 'shots/f-journal.png', fullPage: true });
await p.click('[data-tab="today"]'); await p.waitForTimeout(600);
await p.screenshot({ path: 'shots/g-today-after.png' });
console.log('errors', errs);
await b.close();
EOF
FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node dry.mjs
errors []
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/shots" && "$FF" -v error -y -i a-ready.png -i b-field.png -i c-field2.png -i d-done.png -i e-journal-undev.png -i g-today-after.png -filter_complex "[0][1][2][3][4][5]hstack=inputs=6,scale=1800:-1" flow.png && echo ok
ok
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\shots\flow.png
Every screen works with no errors. The dark screens get quieter step by step, just as you described. Checking the developed journal:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/shots" && "$FF" -v error -y -i f-journal.png -vf "crop=390:1300:0:0" f-top.png && echo ok
ok
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\shots\f-top.png
The journal looks like a real field notebook. ("Test Specimen" is just the stub data from the dry run.) Committing and deploying the redesign, then starting the final recording:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && rm -rf video video1 video2 marks.json && FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node record.mjs > record.log 2>&1; echo exit $?
Command running in background with ID: bo3ac2e7q. Output is being written to: C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tasks\bo3ac2e7q.output. You will be notified when it completes. To check interim output, use Read on that file path.
Session cwd remains C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass; directory changes made by the backgrounded command do not apply to subsequent commands.
The final recording has started, about 20 minutes. Meanwhile I'm updating the editing script for the new two-part recording (landing page plus app):
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\compose.mjs
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\compose.mjs has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
Generating the new narration lines:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && while IFS='|' read -r id text; do echo "$text" | "$S/piper-env/Scripts/python" -m piper -m "$S/voices/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx" --length-scale 1.08 --sentence-silence 0.25 -f "vo/$id.wav" 2>/dev/null; done <<'EOF'
n2|So I built the opposite. Touch Grass, Not Glass. A camera that only works outside, and won't show you anything until you get home.
n6b|I recorded this at my desk, so the glass-free score is an honest zero. On a real walk, the screen stays dark.
EOF
for f in vo/n2.wav vo/n6b.wav; do printf "%s " $f; "$S/ff/node_modules/ffprobe-static/bin/win32/x64/ffprobe.exe" -v error -show_entries format=duration -of csv=p=0 $f; done; cat record.log
vo/n2.wav 8.243810
vo/n6b.wav 6.380045
clip1 done
{ name: 'today', t: 0.906 }
The landing clip is recorded, and the app recording is underway. Meanwhile I'm checking the deploy and updating the README and post:
$ for p in "" app.html docs.html assets/samples/notes.json assets/fonts/fraunces.woff2; do curl -s -o /dev/null -w "$p %{http_code} %{content_type}\n" "https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/$p"; done
200 text/html; charset=utf-8
app.html 200 text/html; charset=utf-8
docs.html 200 text/html; charset=utf-8
assets/samples/notes.json 200 application/json; charset=utf-8
assets/fonts/fraunces.woff2 200 font/woff2
{"command":"cd \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref\"; n=0; while true; do c=$(grep -cE \"name|Error|written|closed\" record.log 2>/dev/null); if [ \"$c\" != \"$n\" ]; then grep -E \"name|Error|w...
Monitor started (task bnvt2fwbu, expires in 30m unless the source ends first; you get one notice at expiry โ re-arm if you still need the watch). You will be notified on each event. Keep working โ do not poll or sleep. Events may arrive while you are waiting for the user โ an event is not their reply.
The recording is in its live phase. While it runs, I'm rewriting the DEV post draft to cover the redesign and Gemma's real results, mistakes included:
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\POST.md
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\POST.md has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
The photos are going in. The draft post now covers the redesign and Gemma's real mistakes, told openly. Next is about 13 minutes of Gemma developing, then I edit the video.
<task-notification>
<task-id>bnvt2fwbu</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'frame-6', t: 92.683 }
{ name: 'done', t: 96.831 }</event>
</task-notification>
All six photos are taken and the walk summary screen is recorded. The darkroom comes next.
<task-notification>
<task-id>bnvt2fwbu</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'develop', t: 104.408 }</event>
</task-notification>
Gemma has started developing the six photos, about 13 minutes.
<task-notification>
<task-id>bnvt2fwbu</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'developed-1', t: 260.855 }</event>
</task-notification>
1 of 6 photos developed.
<task-notification>
<task-id>bnvt2fwbu</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'developed-2', t: 415.013 }</event>
</task-notification>
2 of 6 developed.
<task-notification>
<task-id>bnvt2fwbu</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'developed-3', t: 567.37 }</event>
</task-notification>
3 of 6 developed. Halfway there.
<task-notification>
<task-id>bnvt2fwbu</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'developed-4', t: 690.85 }</event>
</task-notification>
4 of 6 developed.
<task-notification>
<task-id>bnvt2fwbu</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'developed-5', t: 834.53 }</event>
</task-notification>
5 of 6 developed. One to go.
<task-notification>
<task-id>bnvt2fwbu</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'developed-6', t: 1001.295 }
{ name: 'journal', t: 1005.849 }</event>
</task-notification>
All 6 photos are developed. The recording is scrolling the journal and finishing up.
<task-notification>
<task-id>bnvt2fwbu</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'end', t: 1044.702 }
marks written</event>
</task-notification>
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && node -e "const j=require('./marks.json');console.log(j.liveQuests);j.verdicts.forEach(v=>console.log('---\n'+v))"
[
'Find and photograph a single, velvety beech leaf clinging to the trail.',
'Discover and capture the intricate texture of moss growing on a fallen log.',
'Locate and photograph a tiny, scurrying beetle beneath a scattering of leaves.',
'Find and photograph the dappled light filtering through the bare branches above.',
'Observe and photograph a single, vibrant red mushroom pushing through the earth.',
'Capture the subtle outline of a hawk circling high in the darkening sky.'
]
---
Autumn Maple Leaf
โ Found
โThe leaf's coloration is remarkably rich, suggesting a particularly healthy tree and perhaps a sunny exposure. Iโll be keen to note the specific shade of red and the leafโs size relative to the tree next time I spot one.โ
Seen: A single, vibrant orange-red maple leaf is held in a human hand against a blurred autumn background. ยท Acer rubrum (Red Maple)
Quest: Find and photograph a single, fallen maple leaf displaying vibrant red hues.
---
Ancient Oak Bark
โ Found
โThe deep fissures and ridges in the bark suggest a tree of considerable age, and Iโd love to examine the lichen growth on its surface next time, as it might offer clues about the treeโs specific microclimate.โ
Seen: The photograph depicts a close-up view of the textured bark of a large, mature oak tree. ยท Quercus (Oak)
Quest: Locate and capture the texture of rough bark on an ancient oak tree.
---
Sun-Dappled Forest Interior
โ Found
โThe intensity of the light filtering through the canopy suggests itโs likely early spring, perhaps just after the trees have begun to bud. Iโd be keen to return during a slightly cloudier day to see how the light shifts and changes across the forest floor.โ
Seen: The photograph depicts a dense forest interior with numerous trees, their branches heavily laden with bright green leaves, creating a pattern of dappled sunlight on the forest floor.
Quest: Photograph the dappled sunlight filtering through the branches above you.
---
Dark Stone Navigator
โ Found
โThe snail's movements were incredibly deliberate, suggesting a highly sensitive response to its environment โ it would be fascinating to observe its feeding behavior.โ
Seen: A large, dark snail is moving slowly across a bed of small, gray stones.
Quest: Discover and document a tiny snail slowly navigating a damp stone.
---
Squirrel Burying Nut
โ Found
โThe squirrel's focused expression suggests a genuine effort to conceal its food, which is fascinating to observe. Iโd like to return to this spot and see if the nut has been fully covered by soil, and if so, what other invertebrates might be visiting the site.โ
Seen: A gray squirrel is sitting on a patch of grass, holding a nut in its paws and appearing to bury it. ยท Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
Quest: Find and photograph evidence of recent squirrel activity โ a buried nut?
---
Autumn Cloudscape Silhouette
โ Found
โThe clouds are quite dynamic, shifting and changing shape as they move across the sky โ it would be fascinating to see how they evolve over a longer period of time, perhaps with a time-lapse.โ
Seen: The photograph depicts a solitary tree with golden foliage set against a clear blue sky dotted with scattered clouds. ยท Oak (Quercus spp.)
Quest: Capture the shape of the clouds drifting across the autumn sky.
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && echo "It's not perfect. It called a slug a snail, and guessed the wrong squirrel. That's a small model on a laptop CPU, and I left the mistakes in. Open weights mean I can swap in a bigger model, or fine-tune one on my local wildlife." | "$S/piper-env/Scripts/python" -m piper -m "$S/voices/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx" --length-scale 1.08 --sentence-silence 0.25 -f vo/n7.wav 2>/dev/null; "$S/ff/node_modules/ffprobe-static/bin/win32/x64/ffprobe.exe" -v error -show_entries format=duration -of csv=p=0 vo/n7.wav; tail -2 record.log; ls -la video1 video2
14.530975
{ name: 'end', t: 1044.702 }
marks written
video1:
total 7296
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 01:33 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 01:51 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 7466841 Oct 6 01:34 page@d88a2f093edf373f271252f628c1e4aa.webm
video2:
total 16132
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 01:34 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 01:51 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 14680064 Oct 6 01:52 page@8949f0d521d12193e7a95d04022b8d1d.webm
{"command":"until grep -q closed \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/record.log\"; do sleep 5; done; echo closed; ls -la \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/video2\"","description":"Wait f...
Monitor started (task b8g2id8v2, expires in 5m unless the source ends first; you get one notice at expiry โ re-arm if you still need the watch). You will be notified on each event. Keep working โ do not poll or sleep. Events may arrive while you are waiting for the user โ an event is not their reply.
The narration is ready. Waiting for the browser to finish saving the recording.
show me the video when it's done
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && tail -1 record.log; ls -la video2
marks written
total 20228
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 01:34 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 01:51 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 18087936 Oct 6 01:52 page@8949f0d521d12193e7a95d04022b8d1d.webm
Will do. The recording is still being saved (the file is growing: 14 โ 18 MB). As soon as it's done I'll edit it and show you.
okay show me when ready
[Image: source: [REDACTED]\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\images\1.png]
Nice logo. I'll put it in the video's title and end cards and on the site. Checking the recording first:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && tail -1 _ref/record.log; ls -la _ref/video2; cp "C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/images/1.png" assets/logo-full.png && S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; "$S/ff/node_modules/ffprobe-static/bin/win32/x64/ffprobe.exe" -v error -show_entries stream=width,height -of csv=p=0 assets/logo-full.png
marks written
total 24324
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 01:34 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 01:51 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 23855104 Oct 6 01:53 page@8949f0d521d12193e7a95d04022b8d1d.webm
1254,1254
While that saves, I'm preparing the logo: cutting the phone-and-grass mark out as an app icon and making the white background transparent so it sits on the cream pages:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/assets" && "$FF" -v error -y -i logo-full.png -vf "crop=420:430:420:215,pad=460:460:20:15:color=white,colorkey=0xFFFFFF:0.12:0.06,format=rgba" -frames:v 1 mark.png && "$FF" -v error -y -i mark.png -vf scale=512:512 -frames:v 1 icon-512.png && "$FF" -v error -y -i mark.png -vf scale=192:192 -frames:v 1 icon-192.png && "$FF" -v error -y -i mark.png -vf scale=96:96 -frames:v 1 mark-96.png && "$FF" -v error -y -i logo-full.png -vf "crop=600:900:330:200,colorkey=0xFFFFFF:0.12:0.06,format=rgba,scale=420:-2" -frames:v 1 logo-lockup.png && "$FF" -v error -y -i mark.png -vf "scale=180:180,pad=180:180:0:0:color=0xf4efe6" -frames:v 1 apple-touch-icon.png 2>&1; rm -f mark.png; ls -la *.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 42736 Oct 6 01:53 apple-touch-icon.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 48163 Oct 6 01:53 icon-192.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 298642 Oct 6 01:53 icon-512.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 438580 Oct 6 01:53 logo-full.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 231771 Oct 6 01:53 logo-lockup.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 14550 Oct 6 01:53 mark-96.png
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/assets" && "$FF" -v error -y -f lavfi -i color=c=0xf4efe6:s=1000x700 -i icon-512.png -i logo-lockup.png -filter_complex "[0][1]overlay=30:90[a];[a][2]overlay=560:20" -frames:v 1 "$S/logo-check.png" && echo ok
ok
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\logo-check.png
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/assets" && M="[1:v]format=rgb24[l];[0:v]format=rgb24[p];[l][p]blend=all_mode=multiply,format=rgb24";
"$FF" -v error -y -f lavfi -i color=c=0xf4efe6:s=1254x1254 -i logo-full.png -filter_complex "$M,crop=440:440:410:210" -frames:v 1 mark.png && \
"$FF" -v error -y -i mark.png -vf scale=512:512 -frames:v 1 icon-512.png && "$FF" -v error -y -i mark.png -vf scale=192:192 -frames:v 1 icon-192.png && "$FF" -v error -y -i mark.png -vf scale=180:180 -frames:v 1 apple-touch-icon.png && "$FF" -v error -y -i mark.png -vf scale=96:96 -frames:v 1 mark-96.png && \
"$FF" -v error -y -f lavfi -i color=c=0xf4efe6:s=1254x1254 -i logo-full.png -filter_complex "$M,crop=620:880:317:205,scale=480:-2" -frames:v 1 logo-lockup.png && \
"$FF" -v error -y -f lavfi -i color=c=0xf4efe6:s=1000x600 -i icon-512.png -i logo-lockup.png -filter_complex "[0][1]overlay=20:40[a];[a][2]overlay=560:-30" -frames:v 1 "$S/logo-check.png" && rm mark.png && ls -la *.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 41010 Oct 6 01:54 apple-touch-icon.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 46062 Oct 6 01:54 icon-192.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 286730 Oct 6 01:54 icon-512.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 438580 Oct 6 01:53 logo-full.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 244701 Oct 6 01:54 logo-lockup.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 13510 Oct 6 01:54 mark-96.png
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\logo-check.png
The background is still black, so the original logo must already be transparent, not white. Checking the file:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; "$S/ff/node_modules/ffprobe-static/bin/win32/x64/ffprobe.exe" -v error -show_entries stream=pix_fmt -of csv=p=0 "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/assets/logo-full.png"
rgba
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/assets" && M="[0:v][1:v]overlay=0:0:format=auto,format=rgb24";
"$FF" -v error -y -f lavfi -i color=c=0xf4efe6:s=1254x1254 -i logo-full.png -filter_complex "$M,crop=440:440:410:210" -frames:v 1 mark.png && \
"$FF" -v error -y -i mark.png -vf scale=512:512 -frames:v 1 icon-512.png && "$FF" -v error -y -i mark.png -vf scale=192:192 -frames:v 1 icon-192.png && "$FF" -v error -y -i mark.png -vf scale=180:180 -frames:v 1 apple-touch-icon.png && "$FF" -v error -y -i mark.png -vf scale=96:96 -frames:v 1 mark-96.png && \
"$FF" -v error -y -f lavfi -i color=c=0xf4efe6:s=1254x1254 -i logo-full.png -filter_complex "$M,crop=620:880:317:205,scale=480:-2" -frames:v 1 logo-lockup.png && \
"$FF" -v error -y -f lavfi -i color=c=0xf4efe6:s=1000x600 -i icon-512.png -i logo-lockup.png -filter_complex "[0][1]overlay=20:40[a];[a][2]overlay=560:-30" -frames:v 1 "$S/logo-check.png" && rm mark.png && echo ok; tail -1 ../_ref/record.log
ok
closed
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\logo-check.png
The logo is now clean on the cream background, and the final recording is saved (36 MB). I'll trim the small "T" peeking under the icon, then add the logo to the video's title and end cards:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/assets" && "$FF" -v error -y -f lavfi -i color=c=0xf4efe6:s=1254x1254 -i logo-full.png -filter_complex "[0:v][1:v]overlay=0:0:format=auto,format=rgb24,crop=440:420:410:205,pad=440:440:0:10:color=0xf4efe6" -frames:v 1 mark.png && for s in 512 192 180 96; do n=icon-$s.png; [ $s = 180 ] && n=apple-touch-icon.png; [ $s = 96 ] && n=mark-96.png; "$FF" -v error -y -i mark.png -vf scale=$s:$s -frames:v 1 $n; done; cp mark.png ../_ref/mark.png; rm mark.png; ls *.png
apple-touch-icon.png
icon-192.png
icon-512.png
logo-full.png
logo-lockup.png
mark-96.png
Now adding logo support to the video editing script:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && node - <<'EOF'
const fs = require('fs');
let s = fs.readFileSync('compose.mjs', 'utf8');
// title card: lockup logo on the left, text to the right
s = s.replace(`{ card: true, len: 6.5, vo: ['n1'],
caps: [['t', 'Touch Grass,', 360], ['ti', 'Not Glass', 460], ['m', 'THE CAMERA THAT ONLY WORKS OUTSIDE', 590]] },`,
`{ card: true, img: 2, imgH: 760, imgX: 220, len: 6.5, vo: ['n1'], x: 820,
caps: [['h', 'The camera that', 420], ['h', 'only works outside.', 490], ['m', 'OPEN-WEIGHT AI ยท RUNS ON YOUR OWN MACHINE', 590]] },`);
s = s.replace(`{ card: true, len: 11.5, vo: ['n9'],`, `{ card: true, img: 3, imgH: 300, imgX: 200, imgY: 120, len: 11.5, vo: ['n9'],`);
s = s.replace(`caps: [['ti', 'Now go outside.', 360], ['m', 'touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app', 490], ['m', 'github.com/angelraph/touch-grass-not-glass', 536],`,
`caps: [['ti', 'Now go outside.', 470], ['m', 'touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app', 600], ['m', 'github.com/angelraph/touch-grass-not-glass', 646],`);
s = s.replace(`['s', 'Photos CC BY / BY-SA: Wilfredor, Dietmar Rabich, Malene Thyssen,', 700], ['s', 'Holger Krisp, Charles J. Sharp, Ermell ยท Voice: Piper (open-source)', 738]]`,
`['s', 'Photos CC BY / BY-SA: Wilfredor, Dietmar Rabich, Malene Thyssen,', 800], ['s', 'Holger Krisp, Charles J. Sharp, Ermell ยท Voice: Piper (open-source)', 838]]`);
s = s.replace(`const x0 = s.card ? 200 : 840;`, `const x0 = s.x ?? (s.card ? 200 : 840);`);
s = s.replace(" f += `color=c=0xf4efe6:s=1920x1080:r=30:d=${s.len}[bg${i}];`;",
" if (s.img != null) f += `[${s.img}:v]scale=-2:${s.imgH},format=rgba,loop=-1:1:0,trim=duration=${s.len},setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[im${i}];color=c=0xf4efe6:s=1920x1080:r=30:d=${s.len}[cc${i}];[cc${i}][im${i}]overlay=${s.imgX}:${s.imgY ?? '(H-h)/2'}:format=auto,format=yuv420p[bg${i}];`;\n else f += `color=c=0xf4efe6:s=1920x1080:r=30:d=${s.len}[bg${i}];`;");
s = s.replace("[${k + 2}:a]adelay", "[${k + 4}:a]adelay");
s = s.replace("'-i', clip1, '-i', clip2,", "'-i', clip1, '-i', clip2, '-i', '../assets/logo-lockup.png', '-i', 'mark.png',");
fs.writeFileSync('compose.mjs', s);
console.log(['img: 2', 'k + 4', 'logo-lockup', 's.x ??'].map(k => s.includes(k)));
EOF
[
true,
true,
true,
true
]
Rendering the video:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && rm -rf cap && FFMPEG="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" FFPROBE="$S/ff/node_modules/ffprobe-static/bin/win32/x64/ffprobe.exe" node compose.mjs 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig | tail -8
signal: null,
output: [ null, null, null ],
pid: 3676,
stdout: null,
stderr: null
}
Node.js v24.18.0
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && FFMPEG="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" FFPROBE="$S/ff/node_modules/ffprobe-static/bin/win32/x64/ffprobe.exe" node compose.mjs 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig | head -12
[AVFilterGraph @ 00000149374ec340] No such filter: ''
Failed to set value 'filter.txt' for option 'filter_complex_script': Filter not found
Error parsing global options: Filter not found
node:internal/errors:985
const err = new Error(message);
^
Error: Command failed: C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe -y -v error -i video1/page@d88a2f093edf373f271252f628c1e4aa.webm -i video2/page@8949f0d521d12193e7a95d04022b8d1d.webm -i ../assets/logo-lockup.png -i mark.png -i vo/n1.wav -i vo/n2.wav -i vo/n3.wav -i vo/n4.wav -i vo/n5.wav -i vo/n6b.wav -i vo/n6.wav -i vo/n7.wav -i vo/n8.wav -i vo/n9.wav -filter_complex_script filter.txt -map [vout] -map [aout] -c:v libx264 -preset medium -crf 20 -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a aac -b:a 160k -movflags +faststart demo.mp4
at genericNodeError (node:internal/errors:985:15)
at wrappedFn (node:internal/errors:539:14)
at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:925:11)
at execFileSync (node:child_process:961:15)
Bug in my editing script: the landing-page segment has no captions, which produced an empty filter. Fixing:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && node -e "
const fs=require('fs');let s=fs.readFileSync('compose.mjs','utf8');
s=s.replace(\"f += chain.replace(/,\$/, '') + \`,fade=t=in\", \"f += chain + \`fade=t=in\");
fs.writeFileSync('compose.mjs',s);console.log(s.includes('f += chain + \`fade'))" && S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad" && FFMPEG="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" FFPROBE="$S/ff/node_modules/ffprobe-static/bin/win32/x64/ffprobe.exe" node compose.mjs 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig | head -12
true
[Parsed_drawtext_83 @ 00000252686df640] Stray % near '.'
Last message repeated 224 times
[matroska,webm @ 0000025266d9d9c0] File ended prematurely
demo.mp4 126.0s
Rendered (2 min 6 s). One glitch: the "0%" caption needs escaping. Fixing that, then checking frames before I show you:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && sed -i "s|drawtext=fontfile='\${font}':textfile='\${file}'|drawtext=expansion=none:fontfile='\${font}':textfile='\${file}'|" compose.mjs && grep -c "expansion=none" compose.mjs && S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad" && FFMPEG="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" FFPROBE="$S/ff/node_modules/ffprobe-static/bin/win32/x64/ffprobe.exe" node compose.mjs 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig | head -5 && "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -v error -y -i demo.mp4 -vf "fps=1/5.25,scale=480:-1,tile=4x6" -frames:v 1 "$S/demo-sheet.jpg" 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig
1
[matroska,webm @ 00000232c29acd80] File ended prematurely
demo.mp4 126.0s
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\demo-sheet.jpg
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && for f in video1/*.webm video2/*.webm; do "$S/ff/node_modules/ffprobe-static/bin/win32/x64/ffprobe.exe" -v error -show_entries format=duration -of csv=p=0 "$f"; "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -v quiet -i "$f" -f null - -stats 2>&1 | tail -1 | tr '\r' '\n' | tail -1; done
64.760000
N/A
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -hide_banner -i video2/*.webm -map 0:v -f null - 2>&1 | grep -oE "time=[0-9:.]+" | tail -1
time=00:07:28.88
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\index.html
<tool_use_error>File has been modified since read, either by the user or by a linter. Read it again before attempting to write it.</tool_use_error>
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\index.html
1 <!doctype html>
2 <html lang="en">
3 <head>
4 <meta charset="utf-8">
5 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover">
I'm rewriting the landing page to be lighter, with motion.
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\index.html
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\index.html has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
Now the styles, with all the motion:
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\assets\site.css
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\assets\site.css has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && sed -i 's|left: -.06em; z-index: -1; transition: color 1.2s; }|left: -.06em; z-index: 0; transition: color 1.2s; pointer-events: none; }\n.chapter > :not(.chapter-n) { position: relative; z-index: 1; }|' assets/site.css && grep -c "z-index: 1; }" assets/site.css
1
Now the motion script: swaying grass, the phone screen dimming as you scroll, the day-to-night switch, and photos developing on screen:
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\assets\site.js
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\assets\site.js has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
Using your logo on the Docs page and in the camera app too:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && perl -0pi -e 's|<svg viewBox="0 0 32 32" aria-hidden="true">.*?</svg>\s*Touch Grass<span class="logo-tail">|<img src="assets/mark-96.png" alt="" width="34" height="34">\n <span>Touch Grass<span class="logo-tail">|s; s|(<span class="logo-tail">, <em>Not Glass</em></span>)\n </a>|$1</span>\n </a>|; s|<a class="logo" href="./">Touch Grass, <em>Not Glass</em></a>|<a class="logo" href="./"><img src="assets/mark-96.png" alt="" width="28" height="28"><span>Touch Grass, <em>Not Glass</em></span></a>|; s|<link rel="icon" href="icon.svg" type="image/svg\+xml">|<link rel="icon" href="assets/icon-192.png" type="image/png">\n <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="assets/apple-touch-icon.png">|' docs.html && perl -0pi -e 's|<svg viewBox="0 0 32 32" aria-hidden="true">.*?</svg>|<img src="assets/mark-96.png" alt="" width="36" height="36">|s; s|<link rel="icon" href="icon.svg" type="image/svg\+xml">|<link rel="icon" href="assets/icon-192.png" type="image/png">\n <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="assets/apple-touch-icon.png">|' app.html && node -e "
const fs=require('fs');const m=JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('manifest.webmanifest','utf8'));
m.icons=[{src:'assets/icon-192.png',sizes:'192x192',type:'image/png'},{src:'assets/icon-512.png',sizes:'512x512',type:'image/png'},{src:'assets/icon-512.png',sizes:'512x512',type:'image/png',purpose:'maskable'}];
fs.writeFileSync('manifest.webmanifest',JSON.stringify(m,null,2)+'\n');" && sed -i "s|'manifest.webmanifest', 'icon.svg',|'manifest.webmanifest',|; s|'assets/fonts/fraunces.woff2'|'assets/mark-96.png', 'assets/icon-192.png', 'assets/fonts/fraunces.woff2'|; s|touch-grass-v3|touch-grass-v4|" sw.js && echo ".logo img { border-radius: 9px; }" >> assets/app.css && grep -c "mark-96" docs.html app.html sw.js && git rm -q icon.svg && echo ok
docs.html:2
app.html:1
sw.js:1
ok
Checking the new landing page at several scroll positions, including the night switch:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && grep -n -A3 '<a class="logo" href="./">' docs.html | head -8; cd _ref && mkdir -p shots && cat > shots2.mjs <<'EOF'
import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
const require = createRequire(process.env.FF_DIR + '/');
const { chromium } = require('playwright');
const b = await chromium.launch(); const errs = [];
const p = await (await b.newContext({ viewport: { width: 1280, height: 800 } })).newPage();
p.on('pageerror', e => errs.push(e.message)); p.on('console', m => m.type() === 'error' && errs.push(m.text()));
await p.goto('http://localhost:5173/'); await p.waitForTimeout(2200);
await p.screenshot({ path: 'shots/l1-hero.png' });
for (const [name, sel] of [['l2-ch1', '.chapter:nth-child(1)'], ['l3-ch2', '.chapter:nth-child(2)'], ['l4-ch3', '.chapter:nth-child(3)'], ['l5-dev', '#sampleRoll'], ['l6-why', '.why-list'], ['l7-faq', '#faq'], ['l8-cta', '.final-cta']]) {
await p.evaluate(s => document.querySelector(s).scrollIntoView({ block: 'center' }), sel);
await p.waitForTimeout(sel === '#sampleRoll' ? 3600 : 1600);
await p.screenshot({ path: `shots/${name}.png` });
}
const m = await (await b.newContext({ viewport: { width: 390, height: 844 }, isMobile: true, hasTouch: true })).newPage();
await m.goto('http://localhost:5173/'); await m.waitForTimeout(2200);
await m.screenshot({ path: 'shots/m1.png' });
console.log('errors', errs, 'mobile width', await m.evaluate(() => document.documentElement.scrollWidth));
await b.close();
EOF
FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node shots2.mjs && S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad" && "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -v error -y -i shots/l1-hero.png -i shots/l2-ch1.png -i shots/l3-ch2.png -i shots/l4-ch3.png -i shots/l5-dev.png -i shots/l6-why.png -filter_complex "[0][1]hstack[a];[2][3]hstack[b];[4][5]hstack[c];[a][b][c]vstack,scale=1600:-1" "$S/land.png" 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig
16: <a class="logo" href="./">
17- <img src="assets/mark-96.png" alt="" width="34" height="34">
18- <span>Touch Grass<span class="logo-tail">, <em>Not Glass</em></span></span>
19- </a>
--
157: <a class="logo" href="./"><img src="assets/mark-96.png" alt="" width="28" height="28"><span>Touch Grass, <em>Not Glass</em></span></a>
158- <p>Built with Gemma 3 and Ollama for the DEV Hacktoberfest 2026 Open-Source AI Challenge.</p>
159- </div>
errors [] mobile width 390
[AVFilterGraph @ 00000230deffbc00] More input link labels specified for filter 'vstack' than it has inputs: 3 > 2
[AVFilterGraph @ 00000230deffbc00] Error linking filters
Failed to set value '[0][1]hstack[a];[2][3]hstack[b];[4][5]hstack[c];[a][b][c]vstack,scale=1600:-1' for option 'filter_complex': Invalid argument
Error parsing global options: Invalid argument
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -v error -y -i shots/l1-hero.png -i shots/l2-ch1.png -i shots/l3-ch2.png -i shots/l4-ch3.png -i shots/l5-dev.png -i shots/l6-why.png -filter_complex "[0][1]hstack[a];[2][3]hstack[b];[4][5]hstack[c];[a][b][c]vstack=inputs=3,scale=1600:-1" "$S/land.png" 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig; echo done
done
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\land.png
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && cat >> assets/site.css <<'EOF'
/* refinements: chapter numerals sit above, a fuller meadow */
.chapter-n, .chapter:nth-child(2) .chapter-n { position: static; transform: none; z-index: auto; font: 300 clamp(3.2rem, 7vw, 5rem)/1 var(--serif); opacity: .28; margin-bottom: 18px; letter-spacing: -.03em; }
.meadow { height: 150px; }
.why-list span { font-size: 1.5rem; }
EOF
sed -i "s|drawMeadow(svg, innerWidth < 600 ? 70 : 160)|drawMeadow(svg, innerWidth < 600 ? 110 : 280)|; s|const h = 40 + Math.random() \* 75;|const h = 55 + Math.random() * 62;|; s|p.setAttribute('opacity', (.55 + Math.random() \* .45).toFixed(2));|p.setAttribute('opacity', (.7 + Math.random() * .3).toFixed(2));|" assets/site.js && grep -c "280\|55 + Math" assets/site.js && cd _ref && FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node shots2.mjs && S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad" && "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -v error -y -i shots/l1-hero.png -i shots/l3-ch2.png -i shots/l7-faq.png -i shots/l8-cta.png -filter_complex "[0][1]hstack[a];[2][3]hstack[b];[a][b]vstack=inputs=2,scale=1600:-1" "$S/land2.png" 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig; echo
2
errors [] mobile width 390
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\land2.png
Much better. The numerals are calm, the night switch looks dramatic, and the closing meadow is lush. The hero grass still looks thinner than the closing meadow, so I'll zoom in to compare:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -v error -y -i shots/l1-hero.png -vf "crop=700:200:0:600" "$S/meadow.png" 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig; echo
(Bash completed with no output)
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\meadow.png
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && cat > dbg.mjs <<'EOF'
import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
const require = createRequire(process.env.FF_DIR + '/');
const { chromium } = require('playwright');
const b = await chromium.launch();
const p = await (await b.newContext({ viewport: { width: 1280, height: 800 } })).newPage();
await p.goto('http://localhost:5173/'); await p.waitForTimeout(1500);
console.log(await p.evaluate(() => [...document.querySelectorAll('.meadow')].map(s => { const r = s.getBoundingClientRect(); return { w: r.width, h: r.height, n: s.children.length, t: getComputedStyle(s).transform }; })));
await b.close();
EOF
FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node dbg.mjs
[
{ w: 1180, h: 150, n: 280, t: 'none' },
{ w: 1280, h: 150, n: 280, t: 'none' }
]
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -v error -y -i shots/l8-cta.png -vf "crop=700:200:0:560" "$S/meadow2.png" 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig; echo
(Bash completed with no output)
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\meadow2.png
Found it: the hero is slightly taller than the screen, so you only see the grass tips. I'll make the phone a little smaller so the whole meadow sits inside the first screen:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && cat >> assets/site.css <<'EOF'
.phone { width: min(250px, 64vw); }
.hero { padding-top: clamp(24px, 4vw, 48px); padding-bottom: 140px; }
@media (max-height: 760px) and (min-width: 901px) { .phone { width: 220px; } }
EOF
cd _ref && FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node shots2.mjs >/dev/null && S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad" && "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -v error -y -i shots/l1-hero.png -i shots/m1.png -filter_complex "[1]scale=-1:800[m];[0][m]hstack" "$S/hero3.png" 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig; echo
(Bash completed with no output)
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\hero3.png
The hero now fits the screen, with a full meadow in view. Last touches: let the grass run edge to edge on wide screens, and remove an awkward line break in the intro text:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && sed -i 's|You go and look.<br class="br-wide"> Back home|You go and look. Back home|' index.html && cat >> assets/site.css <<'EOF'
.hero .meadow { left: 50%; right: auto; width: 100vw; transform: translateX(-50%); }
EOF
cd _ref && sed -i "s|viewport: { width: 430, height: 932 }, deviceScaleFactor: 2, isMobile: true, hasTouch: true,|viewport: { width: 430, height: 932 }, deviceScaleFactor: 1, isMobile: true, hasTouch: true,|; s|recordVideo: { dir: 'video2', size: { width: 860, height: 1864 } },|recordVideo: { dir: 'video2', size: { width: 430, height: 932 } },|; s|await withTimeout(ctx.close(), 180000);|await ctx.close();|" record.mjs && grep -n "deviceScaleFactor: 1\|size: { width: 430\|await ctx.close();" record.mjs
44: viewport: { width: 430, height: 932 }, deviceScaleFactor: 1, isMobile: true, hasTouch: true,
45: recordVideo: { dir: 'video2', size: { width: 430, height: 932 } },
118:await ctx.close();
Committing and deploying the new landing page, then starting the final recording run:
{"command":"cd \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref\"; n=0; while true; do c=$(grep -cE \"name|Error|written|closed|clip1\" record.log 2>/dev/null); if [ \"$c\" != \"$n\" ]; then grep -E \"name|E...
Monitor started (task b4e6266o9, expires in 30m unless the source ends first; you get one notice at expiry โ re-arm if you still need the watch). You will be notified on each event. Keep working โ do not poll or sleep. Events may arrive while you are waiting for the user โ an event is not their reply.
The new landing page is live at https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app. Here's what changed:
- Hero: your logo, a large calm headline, grass swaying along the bottom, seeds drifting upward, and a phone whose screen dims as you scroll.
- "How it works": three big, spacious chapters. When you reach "The screen goes dark", the whole page turns to night, then back to day for "Develop the roll".
- Photos: three real Gemma frames that develop like film (dark sepia โ colour) as they scroll in.
- Shorter content: four one-line reasons for open AI and five FAQs. Everything else moved to the Docs.
The final video recording is running now, about 20 minutes, with both fixes in place: a full phone frame, and no early cut-off. I'm keeping the computer quiet so Gemma and the recorder don't fight over the CPU. I'll show you the video as soon as it's done.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>clip1 done
{ name: 'today', t: 0.498 }
{ name: 'load-live', t: 5.08 }</event>
</task-notification>
The landing page is recorded, and Gemma is writing the live quests.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'ready-live', t: 47.816 }</event>
</task-notification>
Gemma wrote the quests in about 43 seconds. The field-mode scenes are next.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'field-live', t: 52.392 }</event>
</task-notification>
Field mode is on screen. Still recording.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'field-live-2', t: 60.466 }
{ name: 'load-demo', t: 61.424 }
{ name: 'frame-1', t: 64.877 }</event>
</task-notification>
The demo roll has started, and photos are going through the shutter.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'frame-2', t: 69.042 }
{ name: 'frame-3', t: 73.217 }
{ name: 'frame-4', t: 77.41 }</event>
</task-notification>
4 of 6 photos are taken.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'frame-5', t: 81.579 }
{ name: 'frame-6', t: 85.827 }</event>
</task-notification>
All 6 photos are taken. Next: the walk summary, then Gemma develops the roll, about 15 minutes.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'done', t: 89.953 }
{ name: 'develop', t: 97.515 }</event>
</task-notification>
The darkroom has started. Gemma is developing the photos.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'developed-1', t: 234.665 }</event>
</task-notification>
1 of 6 developed.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'developed-2', t: 365.75 }</event>
</task-notification>
2 of 6 developed.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'developed-3', t: 498.804 }</event>
</task-notification>
3 of 6 developed. Halfway.
show me the video when it's done
Yes, I'll show it to you as soon as it's ready. Gemma has developed 3 of the 6 photos, about 6 more minutes. After that I edit the video (a couple of minutes) and send it to you here.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'developed-4', t: 654.573 }</event>
</task-notification>
4 of 6 developed.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'developed-5', t: 821.99 }</event>
</task-notification>
5 of 6 developed. One left.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'developed-6', t: 1003.881 }
{ name: 'journal', t: 1008.382 }</event>
</task-notification>
All 6 developed. The recording is scrolling the journal now, then it saves.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Stream final recording progress"</summary>
<event>{ name: 'end', t: 1043.858 }
marks written</event>
</task-notification>
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && node -e "const j=require('./marks.json');j.verdicts.forEach(v=>console.log(v.replace(/\s+/g,' ').slice(0,260)))"; ls -la video2; tail -1 record.log
Maple Leaf - Autumn โ Found โThe leafโs rich coloration is beautiful, but I noticed a slight browning along the edges โ thatโs a good indicator of moisture levels and how quickly the leaf is dehydrating as it falls. Next time, Iโll pay closer attention to the
Ancient Oak Bark โ Found โThe texture of the bark is incredibly complex, with deep ridges and patches of smoother, weathered areas โ Iโd love to examine how this changes with the seasons and exposure to sunlight.โ Seen: The photograph showcases a close-up vie
Dappled Forest Light โ Found โThe intensity of the light filtering through the canopy was quite remarkable, revealing the intricate textures of the leaves and branches. Next time, Iโll pay closer attention to the types of moss growing on the tree trunks, as t
Damp Stone Snail โ Found โThe snailโs surface appears incredibly smooth, suggesting a high degree of moisture. Iโll be keen to observe the slime trail it leaves behind โ thatโs often a key indicator of feeding habits.โ Seen: A large, dark snail is crawling ac
Squirrel Burying Nut โ Found โThe squirrel's focused expression and the position of its paws strongly suggest it's actively burying a food source โ a wonderful glimpse into their foraging behavior! I'll be keen to watch for signs of digging later, perhaps a f
Autumn Sky Silhouette โ Found โThe clouds are moving quite slowly, indicating a stable atmospheric layer. Next time, Iโll pay closer attention to the cloud formationsโ movement to get a sense of the wind speed.โ Seen: The photograph depicts a solitary tree wi
total 23684
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 02:09 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 02:26 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 24117248 Oct 6 02:26 page@ed7ca26806f9123d12a71c237624b909.webm
marks written
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && node -e "const j=require('./marks.json');console.log(j.verdicts[4].replace(/\s+/g,' ').slice(250))"
erhaps a freshly turned patch of soil.โ Seen: A gray squirrel is sitting on a patch of green grass, holding a nut in its paws and appearing to bury it. ยท Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) Quest: Find and photograph evidence of recent squirrel activity โ a buried nut?
The narration matches this run's real output: slug called a snail, and the black red squirrel called an Eastern Gray. Waiting for the video file to finish saving:
{"command":"until grep -q closed \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/record.log\"; do sleep 5; done; echo closed; ls -la \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/video2\"","description":"Wait f...
Monitor started (task byj13g16h, expires in 20m unless the source ends first; you get one notice at expiry โ re-arm if you still need the watch). You will be notified on each event. Keep working โ do not poll or sleep. Events may arrive while you are waiting for the user โ an event is not their reply.
The recording has finished. It's saving the video file now, with no time limit this round so it can't get cut off. Then I edit and show you.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b4e6266o9</task-id>
<tool-use-id>toolu_01JjhLxXW7AUH6vTZ6SF4Mjn</tool-use-id>
<output-file>[REDACTED]\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tasks\b4e6266o9.output</output-file>
<status>completed</status>
<summary>Monitor "Stream final recording progress" stream ended</summary>
<event>closed</event>
</task-notification>
Saved. Checking that the full recording is intact, then rendering:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && ls -la video2 && "$FF" -hide_banner -i video2/*.webm -map 0:v -f null - 2>&1 | grep -oE "time=[0-9:.]+" | tail -1
total 70080
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 02:09 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 Admin 197121 0 Oct 6 02:26 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 71756118 Oct 6 02:28 page@ed7ca26806f9123d12a71c237624b909.webm
time=00:17:23.56
The full 17-minute recording is intact. Rendering the final video:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && rm -rf cap demo.mp4 && FFMPEG="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" FFPROBE="$S/ff/node_modules/ffprobe-static/bin/win32/x64/ffprobe.exe" node compose.mjs 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig | tail -4 && "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -v error -y -i demo.mp4 -vf "fps=1/5.5,scale=480:-1,tile=4x6" -frames:v 1 "$S/demo-sheet.jpg" 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig
demo.mp4 131.0s
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\demo-sheet.jpg
The phone now fills its frame, the landing page with the night switch is in, Gemma develops live, and your logo opens and closes the video. Sending it to you:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && cp _ref/demo.mp4 touch-grass-demo.mp4 && echo "touch-grass-demo.mp4" >> .gitignore && ls -la touch-grass-demo.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 18830430 Oct 6 02:34 touch-grass-demo.mp4
{
"files": [
"C:\\Users\\Admin\\Desktop\\touch glass\\touch-grass-demo.mp4"
],
"caption": "Touch Grass, Not Glass: 2 min 11 s demo, 1080p with narration",
"status": "normal",
"display": "render"
}
1 file delivered to user.
The demo video is done: touch-grass-demo.mp4, 2 min 11 s, 1080p, narrated by the free open-source Piper voice. I watched it through frame grabs, not with sound. It runs in this order:
- Title card with your logo: "The camera that only works outside."
- Landing page: grass swaying, the phone screen dimming, and the page turning to night at "The screen goes dark."
- Live quests: Gemma writing a fresh roll of quests on your laptop. Nothing is faked; it's sped up because the CPU is slow.
- Field mode: the dark screen with one quest at a time.
- Demo roll: six photos taken through the real camera button. A caption says they're CC-licensed sample photos because it was midnight.
- "Recorded at a desk, so: honestly 0%": the glass-free score is shown truthfully.
- The darkroom: Gemma developing each photo live, from dark sepia to colour.
- Gemma's mistakes, kept in: it called the slug a snail and guessed the wrong squirrel species, and the narration says so.
- End card: your logo, "Now go outside.", the links and the photo credits.
Problems I found and fixed along the way:
- The first recording only filled a quarter of the phone frame.
- It also lost its last 10 minutes when saving, because Gemma and the video encoder were fighting over the CPU.
- I fixed both and recorded again from scratch.
Your logo is also live on the site: in the navigation, the browser tab icon, and the home-screen icon.
What's left:
1. Your feedback on the video. If you want changes (pace, wording, music), tell me.
2. Where to host the video. DEV posts embed YouTube nicely. You can upload it to YouTube yourself and send me the link. Or, if you want, I'll put it on the project's own site (/demo.mp4) and link to it from the post.
3. The walk (optional): a short daytime walk this week to add a real "I Took It Outside" section. If you'd rather skip it, I'll leave that section out.
4. Publishing: once you're logged into DEV in your browser, I'll fill in the post and show it to you. I'll only click Publish after you say yes.
the video doesnt look entertaining like the video i show you nothing is stylish or creative, i gave you a video example didnt i? or cant that type be achieved with this project?
i have logged in on my browser though
Yes, you showed me the example. Here's an honest answer about what made it feel the way it did.
Why your example looks like that: that project was a 3D game, so its demo video was just gameplay. It had a blocky character, a 3D world, pop-ups and music. Our project is a calm web app, so a screen recording of it will always look like a screen recording. That's why mine felt flat: it's a tidy tutorial, not a story.
Can we get that feel? Yes. We just have to build the film, not only record the app. I can make a short animated voxel (blocky 3D) story in the browser with Three.js, an open-source 3D engine, and record it the same way. For example:
A blocky character sits in a dark room, face lit by a phone ๐ฑ โ the phone shows a quest and goes dark โ the door opens onto a golden-hour voxel park, with grass swaying and leaves falling โ they spot a red maple leaf โ click, a shutter flash โ back home, a red darkroom light, and the photos develop one by one โ the field journal โ your logo: "Now go outside."
The real app footage would appear inside the story on a floating phone, so judges still see that it truly works. Add music, sound effects (shutter click, film wind, footsteps), stylish captions and transitions, and it becomes a short film rather than a demo.
That's roughly 3โ5 hours of my work, with free tools only. We have until Oct 11, so there's time.
Before I start something that big, a few choices:
{"questions":[{"question":"Which style of video do you want?","header":"Video style","multiSelect":false,"options":[{"label":"Voxel story + real app (Recommended)","description":"Blocky 3D character s...
The user answered: "Which style of video do you want?"="Voxel story + real app (Recommended)", "What should we do for music?"="do the best you can to give me what i wanted, i gave you example already, and that was video cartoon amination pure creativity", "Which browser are you logged into DEV with?"="My own Chrome". Read the answers carefully โ they may request clarification, changes, or that you not proceed โ and follow what they actually say.
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; "$S/piper-env/Scripts/python" -c "import numpy; print('numpy', numpy.__version__)"; cd "$S/ff" && npm i -s three 2>&1 | tail -1; ls node_modules/three/build/ | head; mkdir -p "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film" && cp node_modules/three/build/three.module.js node_modules/three/build/three.core.js "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film/" 2>&1; ls "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film"
numpy 2.5.3
three.cjs
three.core.js
three.module.js
three.tsl.js
three.webgpu.js
three.webgpu.nodes.js
three.core.js
three.module.js
Three.js is ready. Next I'm capturing real app screens to use as textures on the cartoon phone and laptop. The journal will show Gemma's real notes from the earlier run:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && mkdir -p film/screens && cat > screens.mjs <<'EOF'
import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
const require = createRequire(process.env.FF_DIR + '/');
const { chromium } = require('playwright');
const notes = JSON.parse(readFileSync('../assets/samples/notes.json', 'utf8')).frames;
const b = await chromium.launch();
const p = await (await b.newContext({ viewport: { width: 430, height: 932 }, deviceScaleFactor: 2, isMobile: true, hasTouch: true })).newPage();
let k = 0;
await p.route('**/api/chat', (route, req) => {
const body = JSON.parse(req.postData());
if (!body.messages[0].images) return route.fulfill({ json: { message: { content: JSON.stringify({ quests: notes.map(n => n.quest) }) } } });
const n = notes[k++ % notes.length]; const { id, seconds, quest, ...v } = n;
route.fulfill({ json: { message: { content: JSON.stringify(v) } } });
});
const shot = (n) => p.screenshot({ path: `film/screens/${n}.png` });
await p.goto('http://localhost:5173/app.html'); await p.evaluate(() => indexedDB.deleteDatabase('touch-grass')); await p.reload();
await p.waitForSelector('#modelPill.ok'); await p.waitForTimeout(800); await shot('today');
await p.click('#loadRoll'); await p.waitForSelector('#ready:not([hidden])'); await p.waitForTimeout(700); await shot('ready');
await p.click('#startWalk'); await p.waitForTimeout(700); await shot('field1');
for (const [i, n] of ['1-maple','2-oak','3-light','4-slug','5-squirrel','6-sky'].entries()) {
await p.setInputFiles('#shutter', `photos/${n}.jpg`); await p.waitForTimeout(500);
if (i === 2) await shot('field4');
}
await p.waitForSelector('#done:not([hidden])'); await p.waitForTimeout(600); await shot('done');
await p.click('#toJournal'); await p.waitForTimeout(600); await shot('undeveloped');
await p.click('[data-act="develop"]'); await p.waitForFunction(() => document.querySelectorAll('.entry .stamp').length >= 6);
await p.evaluate(() => scrollTo(0, 0)); await p.waitForTimeout(400); await shot('journal1');
await p.evaluate(() => document.querySelector('.entry[data-i="3"]').scrollIntoView({ block: 'start' })); await p.waitForTimeout(400); await shot('journal-slug');
await b.close(); console.log('ok');
EOF
FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node screens.mjs && ls film/screens
ok
done.png
field1.png
field4.png
journal-slug.png
journal1.png
ready.png
today.png
undeveloped.png
Real app screens captured. Now writing the cartoon film: six scenes, a voxel character, and a timeline that's rendered frame by frame. This is the big part.
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\film\index.html
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\film\index.html (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
Writing the film's engine and scenes now:
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\film\film.js
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\film\film.js (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
Writing a frame-preview tool so I can check key moments before the full render. Also fixing the pop-in animation curve:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && node -e "
const fs=require('fs');let s=fs.readFileSync('film/film.js','utf8');
s=s.replace(/const pop = \(t, a, d = 0\.35\) => \{[^\n]*\n/, 'const pop = (t, a, d = 0.35) => { const k = seg(t, a, a + d); if (k <= 0) return 0; if (k >= 1) return 1; const c1 = 1.70158, c3 = c1 + 1; return 1 + c3 * (k - 1) ** 3 + c1 * (k - 1) ** 2; };\n');
fs.writeFileSync('film/film.js',s);console.log(s.includes('c3 = c1 + 1'))" && cat > preview.mjs <<'EOF'
import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
const require = createRequire(process.env.FF_DIR + '/');
const { chromium } = require('playwright');
const times = process.argv.slice(2).map(Number);
const b = await chromium.launch({ args: ['--use-gl=angle', '--use-angle=swiftshader', '--ignore-gpu-blocklist'] });
const p = await (await b.newContext({ viewport: { width: 1920, height: 1080 } })).newPage();
const errs = []; p.on('pageerror', e => errs.push(e.message)); p.on('console', m => m.type() === 'error' && errs.push(m.text()));
await p.goto('http://localhost:5173/_ref/film/index.html');
await p.waitForFunction(() => window.ready === true, null, { timeout: 120000 }).catch(e => console.log('not ready', errs));
for (const t of times) {
const t0 = Date.now();
await p.evaluate(t => window.renderAt(t), t);
await p.screenshot({ path: `shots/f-${String(t).replace('.', '_')}.jpg`, type: 'jpeg', quality: 85 });
console.log(t, Date.now() - t0, 'ms');
}
console.log('errors', errs);
await b.close();
EOF
FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node preview.mjs 2 5 8 10.4 13.5
true
2 1270 ms
5 446 ms
8 972 ms
10.4 465 ms
13.5 330 ms
errors []
It renders at about half a second per frame, so the full 80-second film takes about 20 minutes. Checking the first scene:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/shots" && "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -v error -y -i f-2.jpg -i f-5.jpg -i f-8.jpg -i f-10_4.jpg -filter_complex "[0][1]hstack[a];[2][3]hstack[b];[a][b]vstack=inputs=2,scale=1600:-1" "$S/room.jpg" 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig; echo
(Bash completed with no output)
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\room.jpg
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film" && node - <<'EOF'
const fs = require('fs');
let s = fs.readFileSync('film.js', 'utf8');
const rep = (a, b) => { if (!s.includes(a)) throw new Error('missing: ' + a.slice(0, 60)); s = s.replace(a, b); };
rep(`room.add(new THREE.AmbientLight('#3a4a7a', 0.55));`, `room.add(new THREE.AmbientLight('#5a6aa8', 1.5));
room.add(new THREE.HemisphereLight('#8f9fe0', '#2a2030', 1.0));
const lamp = new THREE.PointLight('#ffb766', 9, 7, 1.4); lamp.position.set(3.6, 2.4, -2.4); room.add(lamp);
box(0.3, 0.5, 0.3, '#d8c8a8', 3.6, 1.25, -2.9, room); box(0.6, 0.4, 0.6, new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({ color: '#ffd58a', toneMapped: false }), 3.6, 1.7, -2.9, room, false);`);
rep(`const moonLight = new THREE.DirectionalLight('#8fa6e0', 0.5);`, `const moonLight = new THREE.DirectionalLight('#9fb6f0', 1.2);`);
rep(`s.position.set(0.2 + Math.cos(a) * 1.7, 2.6 + Math.sin(t * 1.6 + i) * 0.18 + (i % 2) * 0.35, -0.3 + Math.sin(a) * 1.1);
const sc = appear * (1 - gone);
s.scale.set(0.9 * sc, 0.39 * sc, 1);`, `s.position.set(0.2 + Math.cos(a) * 1.35, 3.0 + Math.sin(t * 1.6 + i) * 0.15 + (i % 2) * 0.32, -0.4 + Math.sin(a) * 0.8);
const sc = appear * (1 - gone) * 0.75;
s.scale.set(0.9 * sc, 0.39 * sc, 1);`);
rep(` if (t < 6.4) { const k2 = sm(t, 0, 6.4); pos = lerpV(v3(4.2, 3.4, 7.5), v3(2.2, 2.4, 3.6), k2); look = v3(0.2, 1.55, -0.3); }
else if (t < 9.8) { const k2 = sm(t, 6.4, 9.8); pos = lerpV(v3(0.55, 2.35, -1.35), v3(0.42, 2.18, -1.0), k2); look = ph.position.clone(); }
else if (t < 11.6) { pos = v3(0.6, 2.05, 2.6); look = v3(0.2, 2.0, -0.35); }`, ` if (t < 9.8) { const k2 = sm(t, 0, 9.8); pos = lerpV(v3(5.2, 3.8, 9), v3(2.8, 2.7, 5.0), k2); look = v3(0.2, 1.95, -0.3); }
else if (t < 11.6) { pos = v3(0.5, 2.5, 4.2); look = v3(0.2, 2.25, -0.35); }`);
rep(`camera.fov = t >= 6.4 && t < 9.8 ? 30 : 38;`, `camera.fov = 38;`);
// phone POV overlay with the real app
rep(` h += capHTML(t, 6.5, 9.7, 'then the phone said something new', 'Find a leaf that something<br>already took a bite out of.', { bottom: '140px' });`,
` h += capHTML(t, 6.6, 9.7, 'then the phone said something new', 'Find a leaf that something<br>already took a bite out of.', { bottom: '140px' });
{ const o = fadeIO(t, 6.1, 9.9, 0.45); if (o) {
const scr = t < 7.0 ? 'today' : t < 7.7 ? 'ready' : 'field1';
const up = smooth(seg(t, 6.1, 6.6)) - smooth(seg(t, 9.5, 9.9));
const rip = (a, x, y) => { const k = seg(t, a, a + 0.5); return k > 0 && k < 1 ? \`<i style="position:absolute;left:\${x}px;top:\${y}px;width:\${30 + k * 90}px;height:\${30 + k * 90}px;margin:-\${15 + k * 45}px;border-radius:50%;border:4px solid rgba(255,217,138,\${1 - k})"></i>\` : ''; };
h += \`<div style="position:absolute;left:1270px;top:\${lerp(1100, 110, up)}px;width:400px;height:866px;border-radius:56px;background:#22251c;padding:14px;box-shadow:0 40px 90px rgba(0,0,0,.6);transform:rotate(\${lerp(8, -3, up)}deg)"><div style="position:relative;width:100%;height:100%;border-radius:44px;overflow:hidden"><img src="screens/\${scr}.png" style="width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;display:block">\${rip(6.75, 186, 548)}\${rip(7.45, 186, 470)}</div></div>\`;
} }`);
fs.writeFileSync('film.js', s);
console.log('ok');
EOF
cd .. && FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node preview.mjs 2 5 6.9 8.4 10.4 13.9 >/dev/null && S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad" && cd shots && "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -v error -y -i f-2.jpg -i f-5.jpg -i f-6_9.jpg -i f-8_4.jpg -i f-10_4.jpg -i f-13_9.jpg -filter_complex "[0][1][2]hstack=inputs=3[a];[3][4][5]hstack=inputs=3[b];[a][b]vstack=inputs=2,scale=1800:-1" "$S/room.jpg" 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig; echo
ok
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\room.jpg
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film" && node - <<'EOF'
const fs = require('fs');
let s = fs.readFileSync('film.js', 'utf8');
const rep = (a, b) => { if (!s.includes(a)) throw new Error('missing: ' + a.slice(0, 60)); s = s.replace(a, b); };
rep(`const hand = new THREE.Vector3(0, 1.62 - (1 - lookUp) * 0.08, 0.62);`, `const hand = new THREE.Vector3(0, lerp(1.54, 1.12, lookUp), lerp(0.62, 0.5, lookUp));`);
rep(`else if (t < 11.6) { pos = v3(0.5, 2.5, 4.2); look = v3(0.2, 2.25, -0.35); }`, `else if (t < 11.6) { pos = v3(0.9, 2.7, 5.8); look = v3(0.2, 2.2, -0.35); }`);
rep(`'Find a leaf that something<br>already took a bite out of.'`, `'โFind a single fallen maple leaf<br>with vibrant red hues.โ'`);
fs.writeFileSync('film.js', s); console.log('ok');
EOF
cd .. && FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node preview.mjs 17 22.8 24.6 25.8 28.4 31 33.6 37.5 && S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad" && cd shots && "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -v error -y -i f-17.jpg -i f-22_8.jpg -i f-24_6.jpg -i f-25_8.jpg -i f-28_4.jpg -i f-31.jpg -i f-33_6.jpg -i f-37_5.jpg -filter_complex "[0][1][2][3]hstack=inputs=4[a];[4][5][6][7]hstack=inputs=4[b];[a][b]vstack=inputs=2,scale=1800:-1" "$S/park.jpg" 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig; echo
ok
17 1599 ms
22.8 747 ms
24.6 659 ms
25.8 901 ms
28.4 662 ms
31 594 ms
33.6 712 ms
37.5 779 ms
errors []
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\park.jpg
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film" && node - <<'EOF'
const fs = require('fs');
let s = fs.readFileSync('film.js', 'utf8');
const rep = (a, b) => { if (!s.includes(a)) throw new Error('missing: ' + a.slice(0, 60)); s = s.replace(a, b); };
rep(`if (t < 23.8) { pos = v3(8.6, 2.2, 5.4); look = v3(5.6, 0.9, 1.4); }`, `if (t < 23.8) { pos = v3(10.2, 2.9, 7.2); look = v3(5.6, 1.5, 1.4); }`);
rep(`await document.fonts.ready;`, `await document.fonts.ready;
// preload every overlay image so no frame renders a blank polaroid
const hold = document.createElement('div'); hold.style.cssText = 'position:absolute;left:-9999px;top:0';
document.body.append(hold);
await Promise.all([...PHOTOS.map(n => \`../photos/\${n}.jpg\`), ...SCREENS.map(n => \`screens/\${n}.png\`), '../../assets/logo-full.png'].map(src => { const i = new Image(); i.src = src; hold.append(i); return i.decode(); }));`);
fs.writeFileSync('film.js', s); console.log('ok');
EOF
cd .. && FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node preview.mjs 22.8 25.8 44 48.5 51.5 54 61 65 74 >/dev/null && S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad" && cd shots && "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -v error -y -i f-22_8.jpg -i f-25_8.jpg -i f-44.jpg -i f-48_5.jpg -i f-51_5.jpg -i f-54.jpg -i f-61.jpg -i f-65.jpg -i f-74.jpg -filter_complex "[0][1][2]hstack=inputs=3[a];[3][4][5]hstack=inputs=3[b];[6][7][8]hstack=inputs=3[c];[a][b][c]vstack=inputs=3,scale=1800:-1" "$S/rest.jpg" 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig; echo
ok
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\rest.jpg
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film" && node - <<'EOF'
const fs = require('fs');
let s = fs.readFileSync('film.js', 'utf8');
const rep = (a, b) => { if (!s.includes(a)) throw new Error('missing: ' + a.slice(0, 60)); s = s.replace(a, b); };
rep(`else if (t < 50.2) { pos = v3(-0.2, 2.75, 0.9); look = v3(-0.4, 2.05, -1.9); fov = 34; }`, `else if (t < 50.2) { pos = v3(1.3, 2.55, 0.1); look = v3(-0.45, 2.05, -1.75); fov = 30; }`);
rep(`const lapGlow = new THREE.PointLight('#fff1d6', 2.5, 3.5, 1.5);`, `const lapGlow = new THREE.PointLight('#fff1d6', 7, 4, 1.4);`);
rep(`pos = v3(0, 4.3, 12.5); look = v3(1.4, 4.0, 0);`, `pos = v3(0.4, 4.2, 8.6); look = v3(1.2, 4.0, 0);`);
rep(`bigPhone.g.position.set(3.2, 4.2 + Math.sin(t * 1.2) * 0.15, 0);`, `bigPhone.g.position.set(3.0, 4.1 + Math.sin(t * 1.2) * 0.12, 0);`);
rep(` h += capHTML(t, 64.6, 67.6, 'your field journal', 'The only score: time<br>the screen was off.', { left: '96px', bottom: '70px', color: '#1f2a1f', textShadow: 'none', fontSize: '44px' });\n`, ``);
rep(`['Swap or <b>fine-tune</b> the model', 63.2]]`, `['Swap or <b>fine-tune</b> the model', 63.2], ['One score: <b>time off-screen</b>', 64.6]]`);
rep("background:rgba(244,239,230,${0.88 * o})", "background:#f4efe6");
fs.writeFileSync('film.js', s); console.log('ok');
EOF
cd .. && FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node preview.mjs 48.5 66 69.5 >/dev/null && S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad" && cd shots && "$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe" -v error -y -i f-48_5.jpg -i f-66.jpg -i f-69_5.jpg -filter_complex "[0][1][2]hstack=inputs=3,scale=1800:-1" "$S/rest2.jpg" 2>&1 | grep -v Fontconfig; echo
ok
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\rest2.jpg
Found the black-laptop bug: a dark panel sat a hair in front of the screen. Fixing that and moving the camera closer to the journal phone, then starting the full 80-second render in the background:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film" && node - <<'EOF'
const fs = require('fs');
let s = fs.readFileSync('film.js', 'utf8');
const rep = (a, b) => { if (!s.includes(a)) throw new Error('missing: ' + a.slice(0, 60)); s = s.replace(a, b); };
rep(`lapScr.position.set(0, 0.52, 0.03);`, `lapScr.position.set(0, 0.52, 0.045);`);
rep(`pos = v3(0.4, 4.2, 8.6); look = v3(1.2, 4.0, 0);`, `pos = v3(0.7, 4.15, 6.8); look = v3(1.3, 4.0, 0);`);
fs.writeFileSync('film.js', s); console.log('ok');
EOF
cd .. && cat > renderfilm.mjs <<'EOF'
import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
import { mkdirSync } from 'node:fs';
const require = createRequire(process.env.FF_DIR + '/');
const { chromium } = require('playwright');
const FPS = 30, from = Number(process.argv[2] || 0), to = Number(process.argv[3] || 80);
mkdirSync('film/frames', { recursive: true });
const b = await chromium.launch({ args: ['--use-gl=angle', '--use-angle=swiftshader', '--ignore-gpu-blocklist'] });
const p = await (await b.newContext({ viewport: { width: 1920, height: 1080 } })).newPage();
p.on('pageerror', e => console.log('ERR', e.message));
await p.goto('http://localhost:5173/_ref/film/index.html');
await p.waitForFunction(() => window.ready === true, null, { timeout: 120000 });
const t0 = Date.now();
for (let i = Math.round(from * FPS); i < Math.round(to * FPS); i++) {
await p.evaluate(t => window.renderAt(t), i / FPS);
await p.screenshot({ path: `film/frames/${String(i).padStart(5, '0')}.jpg`, type: 'jpeg', quality: 92 });
if (i % 150 === 0) console.log('frame', i, ((Date.now() - t0) / 1000).toFixed(0) + 's');
}
console.log('done', ((Date.now() - t0) / 1000).toFixed(0) + 's');
await b.close();
EOF
rm -rf film/frames; echo ready
ok
ready
Rendering in two parallel halves to use more of the CPU:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && export FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff"; (nohup node renderfilm.mjs 0 40 > render-a.log 2>&1 &); (nohup node renderfilm.mjs 40 80 > render-b.log 2>&1 &); sleep 1; echo started
started
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\film\score.py
File created successfully at: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\film\score.py (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film" && time "$S/piper-env/Scripts/python" score.py 2>&1 | tail -3; tail -1 ../render-a.log ../render-b.log
Exit code 1
score.wav written 80.0 s
real 8m10.085s
user 0m0.202s
sys 0m0.530s
tail: option used in invalid context -- 1
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && for f in render-a.log render-b.log; do tail -n 1 $f; done; ls film/frames | wc -l
Command did not complete within its 120s timeout and was moved to the background (ID: bk7ly5sru). Output is being written to: C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tasks\bk7ly5sru.output. You will be notified when it completes. To check interim output, use Read on that file path.
Session cwd remains C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref; directory changes made by the backgrounded command do not apply to subsequent commands.
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tasks\bk7ly5sru.output
1 frame 900 964s
2 frame 2100 910s
3 2187
4
5 [exited with code 0]
6
The score is composed and the render is at 2,187 of 2,400 frames, almost there:
{"command":"cd \"/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref\"; until grep -q done render-a.log && grep -q done render-b.log; do sleep 10; done; tail -n 1 render-a.log; tail -n 1 render-b.log","descriptio...
Monitor started (task b0ic05qn5, expires in 30m unless the source ends first; you get one notice at expiry โ re-arm if you still need the watch). You will be notified on each event. Keep working โ do not poll or sleep. Events may arrive while you are waiting for the user โ an event is not their reply.
Waiting for the last couple of hundred frames.
<task-notification>
<task-id>b0ic05qn5</task-id>
<summary>Monitor event: "Wait for both render halves to finish"</summary>
<event>done 1358s
done 1330s</event>
</task-notification>
All 2,400 frames are rendered. Assembling the film with the score:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film" && ls frames | wc -l && "$FF" -v error -y -framerate 30 -i frames/%05d.jpg -i score.wav -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 18 -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a aac -b:a 192k -shortest -movflags +faststart film.mp4 && "$FF" -v error -y -i film.mp4 -vf "fps=1/3.4,scale=400:-1,tile=4x6" -frames:v 1 "$S/film-sheet.jpg" && ls -la film.mp4
2400
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 34816499 Oct 6 06:25 film.mp4
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\scratchpad\film-sheet.jpg
That's a real cartoon now. Sending it:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && cp _ref/film/film.mp4 touch-grass-film.mp4 && echo "touch-grass-film.mp4" >> .gitignore && ls -la touch-grass-film.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 34816499 Oct 6 06:26 touch-grass-film.mp4
{
"files": [
"C:\\Users\\Admin\\Desktop\\touch glass\\touch-grass-film.mp4"
],
"caption": "Touch Grass, Not Glass: the voxel short (80 s, 1080p, original score)",
"status": "normal",
"display": "render"
}
1 file delivered to user.
Here's the new video: touch-grass-film.mp4, an 80-second voxel cartoon at 1080p and 30 fps, with an original score and sound effects. I checked it frame by frame through stills, but I haven't heard the audio myself, so please listen for anything that sounds off.
What happens in it:
1. 23:47, a dark bedroom. A blocky kid is glued to their phone while notification bubbles float around them (โฅ 214, ๐ 99+, ๐ฅ 47). Music: a gloomy music box.
2. The phone slides up showing the real app. Taps on Load film and Start walking, then the screen goes dark with Gemma's real quest. The notifications pop and vanish.
3. "!" The kid looks up, stands, walks to the door. The door creaks open and a flash of light floods in.
4. A golden-hour voxel park with a cheerful chiptune, falling leaves, birds and swaying grass.
- They spot the red maple leaf โจ โ click โ a polaroid of the real photo slides in.
- A quick montage follows: squirrel โ light rays โ the slug, each with a shutter flash.
- Sunset walk home.
5. The red darkroom. Lo-fi keys play while the prints develop on the line and the real journal shows on the laptop.
- The laptop says "Frame 4: a large, dark snail!". The kid turns to the camera: "โฆthat's a slug." ๐บ wah-wah
6. The meadow. The why-open points pop in beside a giant floating phone showing the real journal, then the kid lies in the grass with their phone face-down.
7. Your logo: "Now go outside."
Everything is free and open-source: Three.js for the 3D, music I composed in code, and the real app inside the story.
About publishing to DEV:
- The video needs a public link first. DEV posts embed YouTube best. Which do you prefer?
- (a) You upload touch-grass-film.mp4 to YouTube yourself and send me the link.
- (b) I host it on the project's site at /film.mp4 and the post links to it, with a GIF preview in the post.
- Your Chrome session. I'll connect to your Chrome with the Claude in Chrome extension, open the DEV editor, and paste in the finished post. Then I'll show you the preview and click Publish only when you say yes.
Want any changes to the film first (scenes, pacing, music, jokes)?
great video, whats like is voice, the example video i gave you have a voice on it, this should also have a voice then i will host it on yutube why you also host it in the app
Yes, we can add voice. I'll give the film a cast of three open-source Piper voices, so it stays fully open like the rest of the project:
- ๐๏ธ A warm narrator telling the story.
- ๐ง The kid, "Sam", saying a few lines ("There!", "โฆthat's a slug.").
- ๐ค The laptop, with a robotic voice effect for "Frame four: a large, dark snail!"
The music will automatically dip whenever someone speaks, so every line is clear. Then I'll put the film on the website too (a "Watch the film" section on the landing page), and you can upload the same file to YouTube.
Downloading the voices:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "$S" && for v in en_US-ryan-high en_US-amy-medium; do ./piper-env/Scripts/python -m piper.download_voices $v --data-dir "$S/voices" 2>&1 | tail -1; done; ls voices
INFO:__main__:Downloaded: en_US-ryan-high
INFO:__main__:Downloaded: en_US-amy-medium
en_US-amy-medium.onnx
en_US-amy-medium.onnx.json
en_US-lessac-medium.onnx
en_US-lessac-medium.onnx.json
en_US-ryan-high.onnx
en_US-ryan-high.onnx.json
Recording the script with the voices:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; PY="$S/piper-env/Scripts/python"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; PR="$S/ff/node_modules/ffprobe-static/bin/win32/x64/ffprobe.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film" && mkdir -p voice && cat > lines.tsv <<'EOF'
v01 3.9 n Meet Sam. Day forty-seven of just five more minutes.
v02 6.5 n Then the phone said something new.
v03 8.0 n And went dark.
v04 10.25 k Wait. A leaf?
v05 11.7 n One quest at a time. Phone in the pocket.
v06 15.6 n No feed. No map. Just Sam, the park, and one small mission.
v07 20.0 n Eyes up.
v08 22.35 k There!
v09 25.5 n Click. Frame one. Phone away.
v10 27.6 n A squirrel with a snack.
v11 30.1 n Light through the branches.
v12 32.7 n Something slimy on the stones.
v13 35.8 n Six frames. Zero scrolling. Home before the streetlights.
v14 40.9 n Back home, the darkroom. Gemma three, an open-weight model running right here on this laptop, develops the roll. No cloud. Just tea.
v15 50.5 b Frame four. A large, dark snail!
v16 52.95 k That's a slug.
v17 54.7 n Small model. Honest mistakes. And because it's open, you can fix it.
v18 58.9 n It works offline. Your photos stay yours. It's free to run. You can swap the model, or fine-tune it.
v19 64.7 n And there's only one score: time with the screen off.
v20 68.2 n Sam's phone? Face down in the grass.
v21 71.2 n Touch Grass, Not Glass. Now, go outside.
EOF
while IFS=$'\t' read -r id t who text; do
case $who in n) m=en_US-ryan-high; ls=1.0;; k) m=en_US-amy-medium; ls=0.95;; b) m=en_US-lessac-medium; ls=1.0;; esac
echo "$text" | "$PY" -m piper -m "$S/voices/$m.onnx" --length-scale $ls --sentence-silence 0.2 -f voice/raw-$id.wav 2>/dev/null
case $who in
k) "$FF" -v error -y -i voice/raw-$id.wav -af "asetrate=22050*1.16,aresample=44100,atempo=0.92,volume=1.1" voice/$id.wav;;
b) "$FF" -v error -y -i voice/raw-$id.wav -af "aresample=44100,asetrate=44100*0.93,aresample=44100,acrusher=bits=8:mode=log:aa=1,flanger=delay=2:depth=3:speed=0.6,aecho=0.8:0.6:18:0.4,volume=1.2" voice/$id.wav;;
n) "$FF" -v error -y -i voice/raw-$id.wav -af "aresample=44100,acompressor=threshold=-18dB:ratio=3,volume=1.15" voice/$id.wav;;
esac
d=$("$PR" -v error -show_entries format=duration -of csv=p=0 voice/$id.wav); printf "%s %s %.2f\n" $id $t $d
done < lines.tsv
v01 3.9 3.25
v02 6.5 1.47
v03 8.0 0.82
v04 10.25 1.46
v05 11.7 2.42
v06 15.6 4.36
v07 20.0 0.58
v08 22.35 0.50
v09 25.5 2.08
v10 27.6 1.28
v11 30.1 1.37
v12 32.7 1.80
v13 35.8 3.77
v14 40.9 8.51
v15 50.5 3.23
v16 52.95 1.06
v17 54.7 4.13
v18 58.9 5.96
v19 64.7 2.67
v20 68.2 2.43
v21 71.2 3.37
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film" && "$FF" -v error -y -i voice/raw-v15.wav -af "aresample=44100,asetrate=44100*0.93,aresample=44100,atempo=1.18,acrusher=bits=8:mode=log:aa=1,flanger=delay=2:depth=3:speed=0.6,aecho=0.8:0.6:18:0.4,volume=1.2" voice/v15.wav && awk -F'\t' 'BEGIN{OFS="\t"} $1=="v02"{$2="7.2"} $1=="v03"{$2="8.75"} $1=="v05"{$2="11.8"} $1=="v07"{$2="20.3"} $1=="v16"{$2="53.3"} $1=="v19"{$2="65.0"} $1!="v17"{print}' lines.tsv > lines2.tsv && mv lines2.tsv lines.tsv && sed -i 's/^sad_trombone(53.0, 0.17)/sad_trombone(54.5, 0.17)/' score.py && grep -n "sad_trombone(54.5" score.py && cat lines.tsv | cut -f1,2 | tr '\n' ' ' && (time "$S/piper-env/Scripts/python" score.py) 2>&1 | tail -4
302:sad_trombone(54.5, 0.17)
v01 3.9 v02 7.2 v03 8.75 v04 10.25 v05 11.8 v06 15.6 v07 20.3 v08 22.35 v09 25.5 v10 27.6 v11 30.1 v12 32.7 v13 35.8 v14 40.9 v15 50.5 v16 53.3 v18 58.9 v19 65.0 v20 68.2 v21 71.2
real 0m11.818s
user 0m0.031s
sys 0m0.062s
Score regenerated. Now mixing: the music dips automatically under each voice line.
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film" && ls -la --time-style=+%H:%M score.wav | awk '{print $6, $7}' && inputs=""; fc=""; i=1; labels=""; while IFS=$'\t' read -r id t who text; do inputs="$inputs -i voice/$id.wav"; ms=$(awk "BEGIN{print int($t*1000)}"); fc="$fc[$i:a]aresample=44100,aformat=channel_layouts=stereo,adelay=$ms|$ms[v$i];"; labels="$labels[v$i]"; i=$((i+1)); done < lines.tsv; n=$((i-1)); fc="$fc${labels}amix=inputs=$n:normalize=0,apad,atrim=duration=80[voice];[voice]asplit=2[vk][vm];[0:a][vk]sidechaincompress=threshold=0.03:ratio=6:attack=20:release=350:makeup=1[duck];[duck][vm]amix=inputs=2:weights=0.9 1.35:normalize=0,alimiter=limit=0.95[aout]"; "$FF" -v error -y -i score.wav $inputs -filter_complex "$fc" -map "[aout]" -ar 44100 mix.wav && "$FF" -v error -y -i film.mp4 -i mix.wav -map 0:v -map 1:a -c:v copy -c:a aac -b:a 192k -shortest -movflags +faststart film-voiced.mp4 && ls -la film-voiced.mp4 && "$FF" -hide_banner -i film-voiced.mp4 -af volumedetect -vn -f null - 2>&1 | grep -E "mean_volume|max_volume"
06:39 score.wav
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 34827594 Oct 6 06:40 film-voiced.mp4
[Parsed_volumedetect_0 @ 000001d568c47200] mean_volume: -20.4 dB
[Parsed_volumedetect_0 @ 000001d568c47200] max_volume: -0.0 dB
The mix is done. I can't listen myself, so I'll measure that the voice really sits clearly above the music:
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film" && "$S/piper-env/Scripts/python" - <<'EOF'
import wave, numpy as np
def rd(p):
w = wave.open(p); sr = w.getframerate(); ch = w.getnchannels(); x = np.frombuffer(w.readframes(w.getnframes()), np.int16).astype(float) / 32768
return x.reshape(-1, ch).mean(1), sr
mix, sr = rd('mix.wav'); mus, _ = rd('score.wav')
db = lambda x: 20 * np.log10(np.sqrt(np.mean(x ** 2)) + 1e-9)
for a, b, label in [(16, 19.8, 'narration over park music'), (23.0, 25.0, 'park music alone'), (41, 49, 'narration in darkroom'), (50.5, 53, 'robot laptop'), (53.3, 54.3, 'kid: slug')]:
print(f'{label:28s} mix {db(mix[int(a*sr):int(b*sr)]):6.1f} dB music-only {db(mus[int(a*sr):int(b*sr)]):6.1f} dB')
EOF
narration over park music mix -19.5 dB music-only -19.3 dB
park music alone mix -19.9 dB music-only -19.3 dB
narration in darkroom mix -20.1 dB music-only -24.8 dB
robot laptop mix -23.4 dB music-only -23.9 dB
kid: slug mix -15.3 dB music-only -25.9 dB
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref/film" && "$S/piper-env/Scripts/python" - <<'EOF'
import wave, numpy as np
SR = 44100
def rd(p):
w = wave.open(p); sr = w.getframerate(); ch = w.getnchannels()
x = np.frombuffer(w.readframes(w.getnframes()), np.int16).astype(float) / 32768
x = x.reshape(-1, ch)
if ch == 1: x = np.repeat(x, 2, 1)
assert sr == SR, (p, sr)
return x
music = rd('score.wav'); N = len(music)
voice = np.zeros((N, 2)); active = np.zeros(N)
for line in open('lines.tsv', encoding='utf8'):
vid, t, who, _ = line.rstrip('\n').split('\t')
v = rd(f'voice/{vid}.wav')
rms = np.sqrt(np.mean(v ** 2)); v = v / rms * 10 ** (-17 / 20) # every line at -17 dBFS RMS
i = int(float(t) * SR); v = v[: N - i]
voice[i:i + len(v)] += v; active[i:i + len(v)] = 1
# smooth the ducking envelope (80 ms attack, 400 ms release)
env = np.zeros(N); a_up = 1 - np.exp(-1 / (0.08 * SR)); a_dn = 1 - np.exp(-1 / (0.4 * SR)); e = 0.0
for k in range(0, N, 64):
target = active[k]; e += (target - e) * (1 - (1 - (a_up if target > e else a_dn)) ** 64); env[k:k + 64] = e
gain = 1 - 0.68 * env # about -10 dB under voice
mix = music * gain[:, None] * 0.9 + voice
mix = np.tanh(mix / np.abs(mix).max() * 1.15) * 0.93
db = lambda x: 20 * np.log10(np.sqrt(np.mean(x ** 2)) + 1e-9)
for a, b, l in [(16, 19.8, 'narration over park'), (23, 25, 'park alone'), (50.5, 53, 'robot'), (53.3, 54.3, 'slug')]:
s = slice(int(a * SR), int(b * SR)); print(f'{l:22s} voice {db(voice[s].mean(1)):6.1f} ducked music {db((music * gain[:, None] * .9)[s].mean(1)):6.1f}')
with wave.open('mix.wav', 'wb') as w:
w.setnchannels(2); w.setsampwidth(2); w.setframerate(SR); w.writeframes((mix * 32767).astype(np.int16).tobytes())
EOF
"$FF" -v error -y -i film.mp4 -i mix.wav -map 0:v -map 1:a -c:v copy -c:a aac -b:a 192k -shortest -movflags +faststart film-voiced.mp4 && ls -la film-voiced.mp4
narration over park voice -17.1 ducked music -30.1
park alone voice -180.0 ducked music -21.3
robot voice -16.6 ducked music -34.3
slug voice -16.7 ducked music -36.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 34818555 Oct 6 06:41 film-voiced.mp4
$ S="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad"; FF="$S/ff/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg.exe"; cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && cp _ref/film/film-voiced.mp4 touch-grass-film.mp4 && "$FF" -v error -y -i touch-grass-film.mp4 -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 26 -vf scale=1280:-2 -c:a aac -b:a 128k -movflags +faststart assets/film.mp4 && "$FF" -v error -y -ss 24.0 -i touch-grass-film.mp4 -frames:v 1 -vf scale=1280:-2 -q:v 4 assets/film-poster.jpg && ls -la touch-grass-film.mp4 assets/film.mp4 assets/film-poster.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 34870 Oct 6 06:42 assets/film-poster.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 6980582 Oct 6 06:42 assets/film.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin 197121 34818555 Oct 6 06:41 touch-grass-film.mp4
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && node - <<'EOF'
const fs = require('fs');
let s = fs.readFileSync('index.html', 'utf8');
const rep = (a, b) => { if (!s.includes(a)) throw new Error('missing ' + a.slice(0, 50)); s = s.replace(a, b); };
rep(` <a href="#story">How it works</a>\n <a href="#faq">FAQ</a>`, ` <a href="#film">Film</a>\n <a href="#story">How it works</a>\n <a href="#faq">FAQ</a>`);
rep(` <!-- STORY: the page itself gets quieter -->`, ` <!-- FILM -->
<section id="film" class="section film">
<header class="section-head center">
<p class="eyebrow">An 80-second voxel short</p>
<h2>Meet Sam.</h2>
<p>Day 47 of โjust five more minutes.โ Then the phone said something new.</p>
</header>
<div class="film-frame">
<video controls playsinline preload="none" poster="assets/film-poster.jpg" src="assets/film.mp4" aria-label="Touch Grass, Not Glass: animated short film"></video>
</div>
<p class="film-note">Made with open tools: Three.js, open-source Piper voices, and a score written in code. The app shown on screen is the real one.</p>
</section>
<!-- STORY: the page itself gets quieter -->`);
fs.writeFileSync('index.html', s);
fs.appendFileSync('assets/site.css', `
/* film */
.film { padding-top: clamp(72px, 10vw, 120px); }
.film-frame { max-width: 1000px; margin: 0 auto; border-radius: 22px; overflow: hidden; background: #0c0d0a; box-shadow: 0 40px 90px -40px rgba(31, 42, 31, .55); aspect-ratio: 16 / 9; }
.film-frame video { width: 100%; height: 100%; display: block; }
.film-note { text-align: center; color: var(--muted); font-size: .9rem; margin: 22px auto 0; max-width: 560px; }
`);
let js = fs.readFileSync('assets/site.js', 'utf8');
js = js.replace(`document.querySelectorAll('.chapter, .section-head, .why-list li, .faq-list, .honest, .final-cta h2').forEach(watch);`, `document.querySelectorAll('.chapter, .section-head, .film-frame, .why-list li, .faq-list, .honest, .final-cta h2').forEach(watch);`);
fs.writeFileSync('assets/site.js', js);
let sw = fs.readFileSync('sw.js', 'utf8');
sw = sw.replace(`if (e.request.method !== 'GET' || url.origin !== location.origin) return;`, `if (e.request.method !== 'GET' || url.origin !== location.origin || url.pathname.endsWith('.mp4')) return;`).replace('touch-grass-v4', 'touch-grass-v5');
fs.writeFileSync('sw.js', sw);
console.log('ok', js.includes('.film-frame'), sw.includes('.mp4'));
EOF
ok true true
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && cat > shots3.mjs <<'EOF'
import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
const require = createRequire(process.env.FF_DIR + '/');
const { chromium } = require('playwright');
const b = await chromium.launch(); const errs = [];
const p = await (await b.newContext({ viewport: { width: 1280, height: 800 } })).newPage();
p.on('pageerror', e => errs.push(e.message));
await p.goto('http://localhost:5173/'); await p.waitForTimeout(1500);
await p.evaluate(() => document.querySelector('#film').scrollIntoView()); await p.waitForTimeout(1500);
await p.screenshot({ path: 'shots/film-section.png' });
const ok = await p.evaluate(async () => { const v = document.querySelector('#film video'); v.preload = 'auto'; v.load(); await new Promise(r => v.addEventListener('loadedmetadata', r, { once: true })); return v.duration; });
console.log('video duration', ok, 'errors', errs);
await b.close();
EOF
FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node shots3.mjs
video duration 80.016009 errors []
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\_ref\shots\film-section.png
The film section looks great on the landing page and the video loads. Deploying now:
{"files":["C:\\Users\\Admin\\Desktop\\touch glass\\touch-grass-film.mp4"],"caption":"Voiced version: narrator, Sam, and the robot laptop. This is the file to upload to YouTube.","status":"normal","dis...
1 file delivered to user.
The film now has voices: touch-grass-film.mp4. That's the full-quality file to upload to YouTube.
The cast (all free, open-source Piper voices that run offline, which fits the project's "open" story):
- ๐๏ธ Narrator: "Meet Sam. Day forty-seven of just five more minutesโฆ Then the phone said something new. And went dark."
- ๐ง Sam: "Wait. A leaf?" โฆ "There!"
- ๐ค Laptop, in a crunchy robot voice: "Frame four. A large, dark snail!" โ ๐ง "That's a slug." โ ๐บ wah-wah
- The narrator closes: "Touch Grass, Not Glass. Now, go outside."
I measured the mix rather than listening to it: whenever anyone speaks, the voices sit 13โ20 dB above the music. Please give it one listen to confirm it sounds right to you.
It's on the website too. The landing page has a new "Meet Sam." section with the film, and "Film" is in the top menu: https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/#film. The website copy is a lighter 7 MB version so it loads fast.
Next steps:
1. Upload touch-grass-film.mp4 to YouTube and send me the link. A suggested title: "Touch Grass, Not Glass: a voxel short about a camera that only works outside".
2. Then I'll connect to your Chrome (the Claude in Chrome extension), open the DEV editor, paste in the finished post with the YouTube embed, and show you the preview. I'll only click Publish after you say yes.
give me yutube small subtile with the url
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && node -e "
const fs=require('fs');const {execFileSync}=require('child_process');
const PR='C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff/node_modules/ffprobe-static/bin/win32/x64/ffprobe.exe';
const who={n:'',k:'SAM: ',b:'LAPTOP: '};
const ts=s=>{const ms=Math.round(s*1000);const h=String(Math.floor(ms/3600000)).padStart(2,'0'),m=String(Math.floor(ms/60000)%60).padStart(2,'0'),se=String(Math.floor(ms/1000)%60).padStart(2,'0');return h+':'+m+':'+se+','+String(ms%1000).padStart(3,'0')};
const lines=fs.readFileSync('_ref/film/lines.tsv','utf8').trim().split('\n').map(l=>l.split('\t'));
const out=lines.map(([id,t,w,text],i)=>{const d=Number(execFileSync(PR,['-v','error','-show_entries','format=duration','-of','csv=p=0','_ref/film/voice/'+id+'.wav']).toString());const a=Number(t);return (i+1)+'\n'+ts(a)+' --> '+ts(a+d+0.3)+'\n'+who[w]+text+'\n'}).join('\n');
fs.writeFileSync('touch-grass-film.en.srt',out);console.log(out.split('\n').slice(0,8).join('\n'))"; echo "touch-grass-film.en.srt" >> .gitignore
1
00:00:03,900 --> 00:00:07,453
Meet Sam. Day forty-seven of just five more minutes.
2
00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:08,974
Then the phone said something new.
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && node -e "
const fs=require('fs');const blocks=fs.readFileSync('touch-grass-film.en.srt','utf8').trim().split('\n\n').map(b=>b.split('\n'));
const p=s=>{const [h,m,r]=s.split(':');const [se,ms]=r.split(',');return +h*3600+ +m*60+ +se+ +ms/1000};
const f=s=>{const ms=Math.round(s*1000);return [Math.floor(ms/3600000),Math.floor(ms/60000)%60,Math.floor(ms/1000)%60].map(x=>String(x).padStart(2,'0')).join(':')+','+String(ms%1000).padStart(3,'0')};
blocks.forEach((b,i)=>{const [a,e]=b[1].split(' --> ').map(p);const nx=blocks[i+1]?p(blocks[i+1][1].split(' --> ')[0])-0.05:1e9;b[1]=f(a)+' --> '+f(Math.min(e,nx))});
fs.writeFileSync('touch-grass-film.en.srt',blocks.map(b=>b.join('\n')).join('\n\n')+'\n');console.log(blocks.length,'cues ok')"
20 cues ok
Here's a short YouTube title and description with the links, ready to paste:
Title
Touch Grass, Not Glass: a camera that only works outside
Description
```
Meet Sam: day 47 of "just five more minutes." Then the phone said something newโฆ and went dark. ๐ฟ
Touch Grass, Not Glass gives you six small things to find outside. The screen stays dark while you look, and back home an open-weight AI (Gemma 3, running locally) develops your roll into a field journal. No cloud. No feed. One score: time with the screen off.
โถ Try it: https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app
๐ป Code: https://github.com/angelraph/touch-grass-not-glass
Built for the DEV Hacktoberfest 2026 Open-Source AI Challenge.
Made with Three.js, Piper voices and an original score written in code.
hacktoberfest #opensource #gemma #touchgrass
I also made a subtitle file: [touch-grass-film.en.srt](touch-grass-film.en.srt). It has the 20 spoken lines with timings, with Sam's and the laptop's lines labelled. To add it, after uploading go to **Subtitles โ Add language โ English โ Upload file โ "With timing"** and choose that file. Captions help viewers who watch with the sound off.
Send me the YouTube link when it's up, and I'll put the post together in your Chrome.
Got the link. Updating the post with the YouTube embed and the latest work, then opening DEV in your Chrome.
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\POST.md
1 ---
2 title: Touch Grass, Not Glass: a camera that only works outside, developed by Gemma on my own laptop
3 published: false
4 tags: devchallenge, hf26challenge, gemma, opensource
5 ---
6
7 *This is a submission for the [Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass](https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05)*
8
9 ## What I Built
10
11 Every "go outside" app I've tried has the same bug: **it's an app.** It wants you to look at it. A map, a feed, a streak, a badge, a notification, and suddenly you're standing in a beautiful park staring at glass.
12
13 So I built the opposite: **a camera that only works outside, and won't show you anything until you get home.**
14
15 **Touch Grass, Not Glass** works like a disposable film camera with a naturalist inside it:
16
17 1. **๐ผ Load the film (at home).** Pick where you're heading: park, trail, garden, streets, water. **Gemma 3, running locally**, writes you six field quests for *this* month, *this* time of day and *that* place:
18 > *Find and photograph a single, fallen maple leaf displaying vibrant red hues.*
19 > *Locate and capture the texture of rough bark on an ancient oak tree.*
20 2. **๐ Field mode (outside).** The screen goes almost black. You get one quest in dim amber, read aloud, and a button that says **I found it**. That's it: **no preview, no feed, no "did it count?"** You shoot, and the next quest appears. Pocket the phone and look up.
21 3. **๐งช Develop the roll (back home).** Gemma's vision model looks at each photo, writes down what it *actually* sees, decides whether you found it, and gives the frame a museum-style specimen title and a two-line field note. Each frame gets a **โ FOUND** or **NOT QUITE** stamp.
22 4. **๐ Your field journal.** Your developed rolls, plus the only number the app keeps: **minutes away from the screen**, and each walk's **glass-free %**.
23
24 No streaks, no leaderboards, no likes. **The less you look at it, the better you're doing.**
25
26 **Who it's for:** anyone who knows they *should* go outside but needs a nudge and a reason to look closer. It suits kids on a walk, people who like to wander, and anyone whose phone pulls them away from the view.
27
28 The design rule I kept to: **the app gets quieter the closer you get to going outside.** The home screen is warm paper and serif type. Loading the film dims everything. Field mode is nearly black, with one sentence and one button. You only get colour, photos and words back when you're home.
29
30 ## Demo
31
32 ๐ **Live site:** https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app (landing page, FAQ, and [docs](https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/docs.html))
33 ๐ท **The camera:** https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/app.html
34
35 ๐ฅ **Video (about 2 min):** [VIDEO_LINK]
36
37 Everything in the video is real: the real app, and real Gemma 3 4B on my laptop CPU writing quests and developing photos, sped up because it's slow. I recorded it at midnight, so the demo roll uses **CC-licensed sample photos** from Wikimedia Commons (credited in the video and on the site), and the glass-free score honestly reads 0%, because I was at a desk.
38
39 ## Code
40
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && node - <<'EOF'
const fs = require('fs');
let s = fs.readFileSync('POST.md', 'utf8');
const rep = (a, b) => { if (!s.includes(a)) throw new Error('missing ' + a.slice(0, 50)); s = s.replace(a, b); };
rep(`## Demo
๐ **Live site:** https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app (landing page, FAQ, and [docs](https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/docs.html))
๐ท **The camera:** https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/app.html
๐ฅ **Video (about 2 min):** [VIDEO_LINK]
Everything in the video is real: the real app, and real Gemma 3 4B on my laptop CPU writing quests and developing photos, sped up because it's slow. I recorded it at midnight, so the demo roll uses **CC-licensed sample photos** from Wikimedia Commons (credited in the video and on the site), and the glass-free score honestly reads 0%, because I was at a desk.`,
`## Demo
{% youtube o1sWM7cywgc %}
*Meet Sam: day 47 of "just five more minutes." An 80-second voxel short I made for this project.*
๐ **Live site:** https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app (landing page, film, FAQ and [docs](https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/docs.html))
๐ท **The camera:** https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/app.html
**About the film.** It's a cartoon, but everything about the product in it is real. The phone and laptop screens show actual screenshots of the app. The quest on Sam's phone and the *"Frame four: a large, dark snail!"* line are real Gemma 3 4B output from my laptop. The film itself is open too:
- the 3D world is built with **Three.js** and rendered frame by frame;
- the narrator, Sam and the robot laptop are **Piper**, an open-source text-to-speech model running offline;
- the chiptune score and sound effects are **written in code** (about 300 lines of Python/numpy).
The polaroids use **CC-licensed sample photos** from Wikimedia Commons (credited in the film and on the site), because I built this at midnight.`);
rep(`<!-- WALK_SECTION -->\n\n`, '');
rep(`*Sample photos (CC BY / BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons): Wilfredor, Dietmar Rabich, Malene Thyssen, Holger Krisp, Charles J. Sharp, Ermell. Narration: Piper, an open-source text-to-speech model.*`,
`*Sample photos (CC BY / BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons): Wilfredor, Dietmar Rabich, Malene Thyssen, Holger Krisp, Charles J. Sharp, Ermell. Voices: Piper (open source). Film: Three.js. Music: original, written in code.*`);
fs.writeFileSync('POST.md', s);
console.log(s.includes('{% youtube o1sWM7cywgc %}'), s.includes('WALK_SECTION'));
EOF
grep -n "VIDEO_LINK\|TODO" POST.md; wc -w POST.md
true false
1443 POST.md
The post draft is complete: the YouTube embed is in, and no placeholders are left. Now connecting to your Chrome:
{
"skill": "anthropic-skills:chrome-browser"
}
Launching skill: anthropic-skills:chrome-browser
Base directory for this skill: [REDACTED]\AppData\Roaming\Claude\local-agent-mode-sessions\skills-plugin\70d518c3-2d3a-4ecd-9ebb-b411e8fccb34\6c240f28-47e8-4178-be57-5d0095836a4e\skills\chrome-browser
Claude in Chrome
Claude in Chrome is a browser extension. Its tools, named mcp__claude-in-chrome__*, act in the person's real Chrome, in new tabs alongside the person's own, with their existing sign-ins. Claude in Chrome is available only while the person's Chrome is running with the extension connected; if its tool calls report that the extension is not connected or get no response, Claude says so rather than retrying, and follows the session's browser guidance on whether to continue with the other browser or ask first.
If the only Claude in Chrome tool present is enable__mcp__claude-in-chrome, Claude calls it first: it turns Claude in Chrome on for this conversation, and the mcp__claude-in-chrome__* tools appear once it has run.
Loading the tools
If the mcp__claude-in-chrome__* tools are deferred (meaning they have to be loaded through ToolSearch before use), Claude loads every tool it expects to need in ONE ToolSearch call, because the select query accepts a comma-separated list and each extra ToolSearch call costs a full round trip. The core set to start with:
ToolSearch with query "select:mcp__claude-in-chrome__tabs_context_mcp,mcp__claude-in-chrome__navigate,mcp__claude-in-chrome__computer,mcp__claude-in-chrome__read_page,mcp__claude-in-chrome__tabs_create_mcp,mcp__claude-in-chrome__tabs_close_mcp"
Claude adds task-specific tools to that same call when the task obviously needs them: read_console_messages and read_network_requests for debugging, form_input for forms, gif_creator for recordings, javascript_tool for page scripting. A second ToolSearch is only for a tool the task turned out to need later.
Starting a session: tab context first, then a new tab
At the start of each browser session Claude calls mcp__claude-in-chrome__tabs_context_mcp first, to see the person's current tabs and understand what they may want to work with. Then:
- Claude reuses an existing tab only when the person explicitly asks to work with it.
- Otherwise Claude opens a new tab with
mcp__claude-in-chrome__tabs_create_mcpand works there, and, unless the person wants them kept, closes the tabs it created before finishing. - Claude never reuses tab IDs remembered from an earlier or different session. If a tool reports that a tab does not exist or is invalid, or the person closes a tab, or a navigation error occurs, Claude calls
tabs_context_mcpagain for fresh tab IDs.
Site permissions
Claude in Chrome acts on a site only once the person has allowed it; depending on their settings the person may be prompted per site, in the extension or in the app. When a tool call is waiting on or refused that permission, Claude tells the person and waits for them to allow it rather than working around it. A site the person declines is their decision; Claude moves on.
Recording a GIF
For multi-step interactions the person may want to review or share, Claude can record them with mcp__claude-in-chrome__gif_creator. Claude captures a few extra frames before and after each action so playback is smooth, and gives the file a meaningful name (for example "login_process.gif").
Reading console output
mcp__claude-in-chrome__read_console_messages reads the page's console. Console output can be verbose, so when Claude is looking for specific entries it passes the pattern parameter (a regular expression), for example pattern "[MyApp]" to keep only the application's own logs.
Alerts and dialogs
Claude does not trigger JavaScript alerts, confirms, prompts, or other browser modal dialogs through its actions. Those dialogs block all further browser events, so the extension stops receiving commands. Instead:
- Claude avoids clicking elements likely to raise a confirmation dialog (for example a "Delete" button) unless necessary.
- If it must interact with such an element, Claude warns the person first that this may interrupt the session.
- Claude can use
mcp__claude-in-chrome__javascript_toolto check for and dismiss an existing dialog before proceeding, and prefersconsole.logplusread_console_messagesoveralertfor debugging.
If a dialog does get triggered and the browser stops responding, Claude tells the person they need to dismiss it manually in Chrome.
Staying on task, and when to stop
Claude stays focused on the specific task and does not wander into unrelated pages. Claude stops and asks the person how to proceed, explaining what it tried and what went wrong, when any of these happen:
- browser tool calls fail or return errors after 2 or 3 attempts
- the extension gives no response
- page elements do not respond to clicks or input, or pages do not load or time out
- the task turns out to involve unexpected complexity or tangents
- several approaches have not completed the task
Claude does not keep retrying the same failing action.
{"query":"select:mcp__claude-in-chrome__tabs_context_mcp,mcp__claude-in-chrome__navigate,mcp__claude-in-chrome__computer,mcp__claude-in-chrome__read_page,mcp__claude-in-chrome__tabs_create_mcp,mcp__cl...
{
"createIfEmpty": true
}
The "tabs_context_mcp" tool call failed because the Chrome extension disconnected mid-operation. This is usually transient (Chrome service worker restart, tab closed, network blip) and the extension often reconnects automatically. Retry the same tool call in a few seconds. If it keeps failing, ask the user to switch to Chrome (which wakes the extension) or check that the extension is still logged in.
{
"createIfEmpty": true
}
โ ๏ธ **Claude in Chrome is not connected**
The Chrome extension isn't reachable right now. If browser tools were working earlier in this session, this is usually transient โ retry in a moment.
If retries keep failing, or browser tools have never worked in this session, the extension is likely not installed or not signed in. Tell the user how to fix it (include the link):
1. Install the Claude in Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fcoeoabgfenejglbffodgkkbkcdhcgfn
2. Open the Claude side panel in Chrome and sign in with the same account as this app.
Then retry the browser tool. If the user prefers, continue with alternatives (web search, or ask them to do the browser step themselves).
I couldn't connect to your Chrome: the Claude in Chrome extension isn't connected (I tried twice). To fix it:
- Install the extension if you haven't: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fcoeoabgfenejglbffodgkkbkcdhcgfn
- In Chrome, open the Claude side panel and sign in with the same account as this app.
- Keep Chrome open on the DEV tab, then tell me "connected". I'll fill in the post, show you the preview, and click Publish only after your yes.
The finished post is ready in POST.md: the YouTube film is embedded at the top of the Demo section, and nothing is left to fill in. If you'd rather not set up the extension, you can do it yourself in about a minute:
- Go to https://dev.to/new.
- Click the โฏ menu โ Basic markdown editor (or paste straight into the editor).
- Paste the entire contents of
POST.md, including the top---lines (they set the title and tags). - Click Preview to check the YouTube embed shows, then Publish.
Deadline reminder: Oct 11, 11:59 PM your time.
is up now connect
{
"createIfEmpty": true
}
โ ๏ธ **Claude in Chrome is not connected**
The Chrome extension isn't reachable right now. If browser tools were working earlier in this session, this is usually transient โ retry in a moment.
If retries keep failing, or browser tools have never worked in this session, the extension is likely not installed or not signed in. Tell the user how to fix it (include the link):
1. Install the Claude in Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fcoeoabgfenejglbffodgkkbkcdhcgfn
2. Open the Claude side panel in Chrome and sign in with the same account as this app.
Then retry the browser tool. If the user prefers, continue with alternatives (web search, or ask them to do the browser step themselves).
{
"query": "select:mcp__claude-in-chrome__list_connected_browsers,mcp__claude-in-chrome__select_browser",
"max_results": 2
}
{
}
[
]
{
"command": "Get-Content -Raw -Encoding utf8 \"C:\\Users\\Admin\\Desktop\\touch glass\\POST.md\" | Set-Clipboard; (Get-Clipboard -Raw).Length",
"description": "Copy the post markdown to the clipboard"
}
8600
The full post is on your clipboard (8,600 characters). If you'd rather publish it yourself:
- Open https://dev.to/new in Chrome.
- Click inside the editor and press Ctrl+V. The title and tags come with it, from the
---lines at the top. - Click Preview and check the YouTube film shows in the Demo section.
- Click Publish.
Or fix the extension sign-in and say "try again", and I'll do the filling-in, with the final Publish click left for your yes.
is back now was off now
{
}
[
{
"deviceId": "214537c3-5fc5-4006-8503-da9db22a3c99",
"name": "Browser 1",
"osPlatform": "Windows",
"connectedAt": 1791267407599,
"isLocal": true,
"inUse": true
}
]
{
"createIfEmpty": true
}
{"availableTabs":[{"tabId":1185253212,"title":"New Tab","url":"chrome://newtab/"}],"tabGroupId":1791629848}
Tab Context:
- Available tabs:
โข tabId 1185253212: "New Tab" ("chrome://newtab/")
<system-reminder>You used a single tool call this turn. Prefer browser_batch to execute multiple actions in one call โ it is significantly faster. Batch your next sequence of clicks, types, navigations, and screenshots together.</system-reminder>
{
"url": "https://dev.to/new",
"tabId": 1185253212
}
Navigated to https://dev.to/new
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: 1185253212
- Available tabs:
โข tabId 1185253212: "https://dev.to/new" ("https://dev.to/new")
<system-reminder>You used a single tool call this turn. Prefer browser_batch to execute multiple actions in one call โ it is significantly faster. Batch your next sequence of clicks, types, navigations, and screenshots together.</system-reminder>
{
"action": "screenshot",
"tabId": 1185253212,
"scale": 0.5
}
Successfully captured screenshot (683x317, jpeg) - ID: ss_8860t4owo โ 0.5-scale view; coordinate frame: 1366x633.
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: 1185253212
- Available tabs:
โข tabId 1185253212: "New Post - DEV Community" ("https://dev.to/new")
[Image: source: C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tool-results\mcp-claude-in-chrome-blob-1791267439065-wsvx0c.jpg]
DEV's editor is open in your Chrome and you're logged in. Checking the editor's fields:
{
"query": "post title textarea, tags input, body markdown textarea",
"tabId": 1185253212
}
Found 3 matching elements
- ref_72: textbox ""Post Title"" (text) - Post title textarea - matches "post title textarea"
- ref_80: textbox ""Add up to 4 tags..."" (text) - Tags input field - matches "tags input"
- ref_111: textbox ""Post Content"" (textarea) - Body markdown textarea - matches "body markdown textarea"
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: 1185253212
- Available tabs:
โข tabId 1185253212: "New Post - DEV Community" ("https://dev.to/new")
Found the title, tags and body fields. Putting just the post body (without the title and tag lines) on the clipboard so it pastes cleanly:
{"command":"$raw = Get-Content -Raw -Encoding utf8 \"C:\\Users\\Admin\\Desktop\\touch glass\\POST.md\"; $body = ($raw -split \"(?s)^---.*?---\\r?\\n\", 2)[1].TrimStart(); Set-Clipboard -Value $body; (...
*This is a submission for the [Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: To
{
"query": "select:mcp__claude-in-chrome__browser_batch",
"max_results": 1
}
{"actions":[{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"left_click","ref":"ref_72","tabId":1185253212,"action_summary":"Focuses the post title field"}},{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"type","text":"To...
[computer:left_click] Clicked on element ref_72
[computer:type] Typed "Touch Grass, Not Glass: a camera that only works outside, developed by Gemma on my own laptop"
[computer:left_click] Clicked on element ref_80
[computer:type] Typed "devchallenge,hf26challenge,gemma,opensource,"
[computer:left_click] Clicked on element ref_111
[computer:key] Pressed 1 key: ctrl+v
[computer:wait] Waited for 2 seconds
[computer:scroll] Scrolled up by 10 ticks at (520, 300)
[Image: source: C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tool-results\mcp-claude-in-chrome-blob-1791267474301-835dju.jpg]
[computer:screenshot] Successfully captured screenshot (820x380, jpeg) - ID: ss_33560icfj โ 0.6-scale view; coordinate frame: 1366x633.
[Image: source: C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tool-results\mcp-claude-in-chrome-blob-1791267474301-hi52t8.jpg]
Tab Context:
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- Available tabs:
โข tabId 1185253212: "New Post - DEV Community" ("https://dev.to/new")
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && grep -n -- "โ\|โ\|--\|---" POST.md | head -20; echo "---- emoji lines:"; grep -nP "[\x{1F300}-\x{1FAFF}\x{2600}-\x{27BF}]" POST.md | cut -c1-100
1:---
5:---
56:**The slow model made the film-camera idea work.** Developing one photo on my CPU takes about two minutes (111โ127 seconds in the sample roll). If the app checked photos live, you'd stand on the trail watching a spinner, which is the exact screen-staring I wanted to kill. So the app does what film did: **shoot now, develop later.** Slow inference stopped being a bug and became the reason the screen stays dark. When you're back home, you tap Develop, put the kettle on, and the roll appears frame by frame.
---- emoji lines:
grep: character value in \x{} or \o{} is too large
Only one dash in the body (a "111โ127" range). Reading the whole post for AI-sounding phrasing:
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\POST.md
1 ---
2 title: Touch Grass, Not Glass: a camera that only works outside, developed by Gemma on my own laptop
3 published: false
4 tags: devchallenge, hf26challenge, gemma, opensource
5 ---
6
7 *This is a submission for the [Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass](https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05)*
8
9 ## What I Built
10
11 Every "go outside" app I've tried has the same bug: **it's an app.** It wants you to look at it. A map, a feed, a streak, a badge, a notification, and suddenly you're standing in a beautiful park staring at glass.
12
13 So I built the opposite: **a camera that only works outside, and won't show you anything until you get home.**
14
15 **Touch Grass, Not Glass** works like a disposable film camera with a naturalist inside it:
16
17 1. **๐ผ Load the film (at home).** Pick where you're heading: park, trail, garden, streets, water. **Gemma 3, running locally**, writes you six field quests for *this* month, *this* time of day and *that* place:
18 > *Find and photograph a single, fallen maple leaf displaying vibrant red hues.*
19 > *Locate and capture the texture of rough bark on an ancient oak tree.*
20 2. **๐ Field mode (outside).** The screen goes almost black. You get one quest in dim amber, read aloud, and a button that says **I found it**. That's it: **no preview, no feed, no "did it count?"** You shoot, and the next quest appears. Pocket the phone and look up.
21 3. **๐งช Develop the roll (back home).** Gemma's vision model looks at each photo, writes down what it *actually* sees, decides whether you found it, and gives the frame a museum-style specimen title and a two-line field note. Each frame gets a **โ FOUND** or **NOT QUITE** stamp.
22 4. **๐ Your field journal.** Your developed rolls, plus the only number the app keeps: **minutes away from the screen**, and each walk's **glass-free %**.
23
24 No streaks, no leaderboards, no likes. **The less you look at it, the better you're doing.**
25
26 **Who it's for:** anyone who knows they *should* go outside but needs a nudge and a reason to look closer. It suits kids on a walk, people who like to wander, and anyone whose phone pulls them away from the view.
27
28 The design rule I kept to: **the app gets quieter the closer you get to going outside.** The home screen is warm paper and serif type. Loading the film dims everything. Field mode is nearly black, with one sentence and one button. You only get colour, photos and words back when you're home.
29
30 ## Demo
31
32 {% youtube o1sWM7cywgc %}
33
34 *Meet Sam: day 47 of "just five more minutes." An 80-second voxel short I made for this project.*
35
36 ๐ **Live site:** https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app (landing page, film, FAQ and [docs](https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/docs.html))
37 ๐ท **The camera:** https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/app.html
38
39 **About the film.** It's a cartoon, but everything about the product in it is real. The phone and laptop screens show actual screenshots of the app. The quest on Sam's phone and the *"Frame four: a large, dark snail!"* line are real Gemma 3 4B output from my laptop. The film itself is open too:
40 - the 3D world is built with **Three.js** and rendered frame by frame;
41 - the narrator, Sam and the robot laptop are **Piper**, an open-source text-to-speech model running offline;
42 - the chiptune score and sound effects are **written in code** (about 300 lines of Python/numpy).
43
44 The polaroids use **CC-licensed sample photos** from Wikimedia Commons (credited in the film and on the site), because I built this at midnight.
45
46 ## Code
47
48 {% github angelraph/touch-grass-not-glass %}
49
50 Zero npm dependencies: plain HTML, CSS and JS modules, a service worker, IndexedDB, self-hosted fonts, and a local Ollama server.
51
52 ## How I Built It
53
54 **The model: Gemma 3 (4B) via Ollama, on a laptop with no GPU.** I really mean that: my machine has integrated Intel graphics. Gemma 3 4B runs on the CPU at about 6 tokens per second. That was a problem at first, and then it turned into the main design idea.
55
56 **The slow model made the film-camera idea work.** Developing one photo on my CPU takes about two minutes (111โ127 seconds in the sample roll). If the app checked photos live, you'd stand on the trail watching a spinner, which is the exact screen-staring I wanted to kill. So the app does what film did: **shoot now, develop later.** Slow inference stopped being a bug and became the reason the screen stays dark. When you're back home, you tap Develop, put the kettle on, and the roll appears frame by frame.
57
58 **Two prompts, both with structured output.** Ollama's `format` parameter takes a JSON schema, so Gemma always returns data the app can read:
59
60 - **Quest writer:** month, time of day and destination in; exactly six one-sentence quests out. The rules: findable in under 10 minutes, safe, leave nature undisturbed, and a mix of plant, animal sign, light and season.
61 - **Darkroom verifier:** one photo plus its quest in; `{ observation, matches_quest, confidence, title, field_note, species_guess }` out.
62
63 One small trick made the verifier more honest: **`observation` comes first in the schema.** The model has to describe what's in the frame *before* it decides. In an early version I asked for the verdict first, and Gemma said a gradient wallpaper was "something natural with two colors", then explained in its own note why it wasn't. With observation first, the verdict follows from what the model actually saw.
64
65 **Offline where it matters:**
66 - A **service worker** caches the whole app, fonts included, so field mode loads with zero bars.
67 - Photos are resized to 768px on the device and stored in **IndexedDB**. Nothing is uploaded.
68 - With no model reachable (say, you're already at the trailhead), quests come from a built-in **pocket deck**.
69 - **Phone outside, computer at home:** *Export* a roll on the phone (one JSON file), then *Import* it on the machine running Ollama and develop it there.
70
71 **The glass-free timer** uses the Page Visibility API: it counts only the time the field screen was actually visible, compared with the length of the whole walk.
72
73 ## What Gemma Got Wrong (and Why I Left It In)
74
75 The [sample roll on the landing page](https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/#journal) is unedited Gemma 3 4B output. It made two mistakes:
76
77 - One quest asked for a **snail**, and the photo was a **slug**. Gemma titled the frame *"Black Slug on Stone"*, then still described "a large, dark snail" and stamped it **FOUND**.
78 - It called a black-coated Eurasian red squirrel an **Eastern Gray Squirrel**.
79
80 I could have tuned the prompt until the demo looked perfect. Instead I show the raw output, because a 4B model on a laptop CPU isn't a field guide. The app is built around that: the journal shows what the model *saw*, and the prompt tells it to say "uncertain" rather than invent a species. Fixing this is also where open weights help. I can swap in `gemma3:12b` with one setting, or fine-tune a model on the plants and animals where I live. A closed API would leave me waiting for someone else's next release.
81
82 ## Why Does Open Innovation Matter?
83
84 Because a closed API would have broken all three things this project is about.
85
86 - **๐ต It works where the grass is.** Trails and parks are where signal drops. With an open-weight model, "the cloud" is a laptop in my living room, and the field side needs no network at all.
87 - **๐ Your walks stay yours.** A roll of photos is a time-stamped map of where you go and when. With a hosted vision API, every frame would go to someone else's server. Here nothing leaves devices I own, and that isn't a privacy policy; it's how the app is built.
88 - **๐ธ It costs nothing to touch grass.** No API key, no per-image fee, no subscription. A kid with a hand-me-down laptop can run the whole darkroom.
89 - **๐ง It's mine to change.** Changing the model is one text field: `gemma3:12b` on a better machine, `gemma3n` for something lighter, `llava` if you prefer. The prompts are in one readable file.
90
91 The open approach also produced the best idea in the project. With an instant closed API I'd have built yet another live "AI identifies your photo" app. Because I was running my own slow model, I built a darkroom, and the darkroom is what keeps people off the screen.
92
93 ## Prize Categories
94
95 - **Best Use of Gemma:** Gemma 3 is the whole engine. It writes the quests (text) and develops the roll (vision), locally, with structured output.
96
97 *Sample photos (CC BY / BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons): Wilfredor, Dietmar Rabich, Malene Thyssen, Holger Krisp, Charles J. Sharp, Ermell. Voices: Piper (open source). Film: Three.js. Music: original, written in code.*
98
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && node - <<'EOF'
const fs = require('fs');
let s = fs.readFileSync('POST.md', 'utf8');
const rep = (a, b) => { if (!s.includes(a)) throw new Error('missing: ' + a.slice(0, 60)); s = s.replace(a, b); };
rep(`Every "go outside" app I've tried has the same bug: **it's an app.** It wants you to look at it. A map, a feed, a streak, a badge, a notification, and suddenly you're standing in a beautiful park staring at glass.
So I built the opposite: **a camera that only works outside, and won't show you anything until you get home.**
**Touch Grass, Not Glass** works like a disposable film camera with a naturalist inside it:`,
`Every "go outside" app I've tried has the same problem: it's an app. It wants you to look at it. A map, a feed, a streak, a badge, a notification, and suddenly you're standing in a beautiful park staring at your phone.
So I built the opposite: a camera that only works outside and won't show you anything until you get home.
Touch Grass, Not Glass works like a disposable film camera with a naturalist inside it.`);
rep(`1. **๐ผ Load the film (at home).** Pick where you're heading: park, trail, garden, streets, water. **Gemma 3, running locally**, writes you six field quests for *this* month, *this* time of day and *that* place:`,
`1. **Load the film (at home).** Pick where you're heading: park, trail, garden, streets or water. Gemma 3, running on my own laptop, writes six field quests for this month, this time of day and that place:`);
rep(`2. **๐ Field mode (outside).** The screen goes almost black. You get one quest in dim amber, read aloud, and a button that says **I found it**. That's it: **no preview, no feed, no "did it count?"** You shoot, and the next quest appears. Pocket the phone and look up.`,
`2. **Field mode (outside).** The screen goes almost black. You get one quest in dim amber, read aloud, and a button that says "I found it". There is no preview and no feed, and you can't check whether the photo counted. You take the picture, the next quest appears, and the phone goes back in your pocket.`);
rep(`3. **๐งช Develop the roll (back home).** Gemma's vision model looks at each photo, writes down what it *actually* sees, decides whether you found it, and gives the frame a museum-style specimen title and a two-line field note. Each frame gets a **โ FOUND** or **NOT QUITE** stamp.
4. **๐ Your field journal.** Your developed rolls, plus the only number the app keeps: **minutes away from the screen**, and each walk's **glass-free %**.
No streaks, no leaderboards, no likes. **The less you look at it, the better you're doing.**
**Who it's for:** anyone who knows they *should* go outside but needs a nudge and a reason to look closer. It suits kids on a walk, people who like to wander, and anyone whose phone pulls them away from the view.
The design rule I kept to: **the app gets quieter the closer you get to going outside.** The home screen is warm paper and serif type. Loading the film dims everything. Field mode is nearly black, with one sentence and one button. You only get colour, photos and words back when you're home.`,
`3. **Develop the roll (back home).** Gemma's vision model looks at each photo, writes down what it sees, decides whether you found it, and gives the frame a short specimen title and a two-line field note, stamped FOUND or NOT QUITE.
4. **Read your field journal.** Your developed rolls, plus the only number the app keeps: minutes away from the screen, and how much of each walk the screen was off.
No streaks, no leaderboards, no likes. The less you look at it, the better.
It's for anyone who knows they should get outside more but wants a small reason to go and to look closer: kids on a walk, people who like to wander, and anyone whose phone keeps pulling them away from the view.
One rule shaped the design: the app gets quieter the closer you get to going outside. The home screen is warm paper and serif type. Loading the film dims everything. Field mode is nearly black, with one sentence and one button. Colour, photos and words only come back when you're home.`);
rep(`*Meet Sam: day 47 of "just five more minutes." An 80-second voxel short I made for this project.*
๐ **Live site:** https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app (landing page, film, FAQ and [docs](https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/docs.html))
๐ท **The camera:** https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/app.html
**About the film.** It's a cartoon, but everything about the product in it is real. The phone and laptop screens show actual screenshots of the app. The quest on Sam's phone and the *"Frame four: a large, dark snail!"* line are real Gemma 3 4B output from my laptop. The film itself is open too:
- the 3D world is built with **Three.js** and rendered frame by frame;
- the narrator, Sam and the robot laptop are **Piper**, an open-source text-to-speech model running offline;
- the chiptune score and sound effects are **written in code** (about 300 lines of Python/numpy).
The polaroids use **CC-licensed sample photos** from Wikimedia Commons (credited in the film and on the site), because I built this at midnight.`,
`Meet Sam, on day 47 of "just five more minutes." I made this 80-second voxel short for the project.
Live site: https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app (landing page, film, FAQ and [docs](https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/docs.html))
The camera: https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/app.html
The film is a cartoon, but the product in it is real. The phone and laptop screens are actual screenshots of the app, and the quest on Sam's phone and the "Frame four: a large, dark snail!" line are real Gemma 3 4B output from my laptop. The film is built from open tools as well:
- the 3D world is Three.js, rendered frame by frame
- the narrator, Sam and the robot laptop are voiced by Piper, an open-source text-to-speech model that runs offline
- the chiptune score and sound effects are written in code, about 300 lines of Python and numpy
The polaroids use CC-licensed sample photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited in the film and on the site. I built this at midnight, so there was no daylight to shoot my own.`);
rep(`Zero npm dependencies: plain HTML, CSS and JS modules, a service worker, IndexedDB, self-hosted fonts, and a local Ollama server.`,
`There are no npm dependencies: plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript modules, a service worker, IndexedDB, self-hosted fonts and a local Ollama server.`);
rep(`**The model: Gemma 3 (4B) via Ollama, on a laptop with no GPU.** I really mean that: my machine has integrated Intel graphics. Gemma 3 4B runs on the CPU at about 6 tokens per second. That was a problem at first, and then it turned into the main design idea.
**The slow model made the film-camera idea work.** Developing one photo on my CPU takes about two minutes (111โ127 seconds in the sample roll). If the app checked photos live, you'd stand on the trail watching a spinner, which is the exact screen-staring I wanted to kill. So the app does what film did: **shoot now, develop later.** Slow inference stopped being a bug and became the reason the screen stays dark. When you're back home, you tap Develop, put the kettle on, and the roll appears frame by frame.
**Two prompts, both with structured output.** Ollama's \`format\` parameter takes a JSON schema, so Gemma always returns data the app can read:`,
`### The model
Gemma 3 (4B) through Ollama, on a laptop with no GPU. My machine only has integrated Intel graphics, so Gemma runs on the CPU at about 6 tokens per second. That was a problem at first, and then it became the main design idea.
### Why slow turned out to be good
Developing one photo takes about two minutes on my CPU (111 to 127 seconds in the sample roll). If the app checked photos live, you'd stand on the trail watching a spinner, which is exactly the screen-staring I wanted to get rid of. So the app does what film did: shoot now, develop later. The slow model stopped being a problem and became the reason the screen stays dark. Back home, you tap Develop, put the kettle on, and the roll appears frame by frame.
### Two prompts with structured output
Ollama's \`format\` parameter takes a JSON schema, so Gemma always returns data the app can read.`);
rep(`One small trick made the verifier more honest: **\`observation\` comes first in the schema.** The model has to describe what's in the frame *before* it decides.`,
`One small change made the verifier more honest: \`observation\` comes first in the schema, so the model has to describe what's in the frame before it decides.`);
rep(`**Offline where it matters:**`, `### Offline where it matters
`);
rep(`- A **service worker** caches the whole app, fonts included, so field mode loads with zero bars.
- Photos are resized to 768px on the device and stored in **IndexedDB**. Nothing is uploaded.
- With no model reachable (say, you're already at the trailhead), quests come from a built-in **pocket deck**.
- **Phone outside, computer at home:** *Export* a roll on the phone (one JSON file), then *Import* it on the machine running Ollama and develop it there.
**The glass-free timer** uses the Page Visibility API: it counts only the time the field screen was actually visible, compared with the length of the whole walk.`,
`- A service worker caches the whole app, fonts included, so field mode loads with no signal.
- Photos are resized to 768px on the device and stored in IndexedDB. Nothing is uploaded.
- If no model is reachable, for example when you're already at the trailhead, quests come from a built-in pocket deck.
- To walk with your phone and develop on your computer, export the roll on the phone (one JSON file) and import it on the machine running Ollama.
The glass-free timer uses the Page Visibility API. It counts only the time the field screen was actually showing and compares it with the length of the whole walk.`);
rep(`- One quest asked for a **snail**, and the photo was a **slug**. Gemma titled the frame *"Black Slug on Stone"*, then still described "a large, dark snail" and stamped it **FOUND**.
- It called a black-coated Eurasian red squirrel an **Eastern Gray Squirrel**.
I could have tuned the prompt until the demo looked perfect. Instead I show the raw output, because a 4B model on a laptop CPU isn't a field guide. The app is built around that: the journal shows what the model *saw*, and the prompt tells it to say "uncertain" rather than invent a species. Fixing this is also where open weights help. I can swap in \`gemma3:12b\` with one setting, or fine-tune a model on the plants and animals where I live. A closed API would leave me waiting for someone else's next release.`,
`- One quest asked for a snail, and the photo was a slug. Gemma titled the frame "Black Slug on Stone", then still described "a large, dark snail" and stamped it FOUND.
- It called a black-coated Eurasian red squirrel an Eastern Gray Squirrel.
I could have tuned the prompt until the demo looked perfect. I'd rather show the raw output, because a 4B model on a laptop CPU isn't a field guide. The app is built with that in mind: the journal shows what the model saw, and the prompt asks it to say "uncertain" rather than invent a species. Open weights also give me a way to fix it. I can switch to \`gemma3:12b\` with one setting, or fine-tune a model on the plants and animals where I live, instead of waiting for someone else's next release.`);
rep(`Because a closed API would have broken all three things this project is about.
- **๐ต It works where the grass is.** Trails and parks are where signal drops. With an open-weight model, "the cloud" is a laptop in my living room, and the field side needs no network at all.
- **๐ Your walks stay yours.** A roll of photos is a time-stamped map of where you go and when. With a hosted vision API, every frame would go to someone else's server. Here nothing leaves devices I own, and that isn't a privacy policy; it's how the app is built.
- **๐ธ It costs nothing to touch grass.** No API key, no per-image fee, no subscription. A kid with a hand-me-down laptop can run the whole darkroom.
- **๐ง It's mine to change.** Changing the model is one text field: \`gemma3:12b\` on a better machine, \`gemma3n\` for something lighter, \`llava\` if you prefer. The prompts are in one readable file.
The open approach also produced the best idea in the project. With an instant closed API I'd have built yet another live "AI identifies your photo" app. Because I was running my own slow model, I built a darkroom, and the darkroom is what keeps people off the screen.`,
`With a closed API, most of this project wouldn't work.
- **It works where the grass is.** Trails and parks are where the signal drops. With an open-weight model, the "cloud" is a laptop in my living room, and the field side needs no network at all.
- **Your walks stay yours.** A roll of photos is a time-stamped record of where you go and when. With a hosted vision API, every frame would go to someone else's server. Here the photos never leave devices I own, because the app has nowhere else to send them.
- **It costs nothing to run.** No API key, no fee per image, no subscription. A kid with a hand-me-down laptop can run the whole darkroom.
- **I can change it.** Switching models is one text field: \`gemma3:12b\` on a better machine, \`gemma3n\` for something lighter, or \`llava\`. The prompts are in one readable file.
Running my own model also gave me the best idea in the project. With an instant cloud API I would have built yet another app that identifies your photo on the spot. Because my model was slow, I built a darkroom instead, and the darkroom is what keeps people off the screen.`);
rep(`- **Best Use of Gemma:** Gemma 3 is the whole engine. It writes the quests (text) and develops the roll (vision), locally, with structured output.`,
`- **Best Use of Gemma:** Gemma 3 does all of the AI work. It writes the quests and develops the photos, locally, with structured output.`);
fs.writeFileSync('POST.md', s);
const body = s.split(/^---[\s\S]*?---\r?\n/m)[1];
console.log('dashes:', (body.match(/[โโ]|--/g) || []).length, 'emoji:', (body.match(/\p{Extended_Pictographic}/gu) || []).length, 'bold:', (body.match(/\*\*/g) || []).length / 2);
EOF
Exit code 2
/usr/bin/bash: -c: line 54: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
That applies to both the post and the README; I'll clean both. The edit script hit a shell quoting error, so I'm saving it as a file and running it from there:
humanly writen completely with human tune
I'll rewrite the whole post from scratch in a natural, first-person voice: short paragraphs, normal sentences, no dashes, no emoji, very little bold. I'll do the README the same way.
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\POST.md
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\POST.md has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
Checking the new text for any dashes or emoji left, ignoring links and DEV's required first line:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && awk 'NR>5' POST.md | grep -v "This is a submission" | sed -E 's#https?://[^ )]+##g; s#\{%[^%]*%\}##g; s#\[[^]]*\]\([^)]*\)##g' | grep -n -- "-\|โ\|โ" ; node -e "const s=require('fs').readFileSync('POST.md','utf8');console.log('emoji',(s.match(/\p{Extended_Pictographic}/gu)||[]).length,'bold',(s.match(/\*\*/g)||[]).length/2)"
59:- A service worker caches the whole app, fonts included, so field mode opens with no signal.
60:- Photos get shrunk to 768 pixels on the phone and stored in IndexedDB. Nothing gets uploaded.
61:- If there's no model around when you load film, say you're already at the trailhead, the quests come from a small built in deck.
62:- If you walk with your phone and develop on your laptop, you can export the roll as one file and import it on the laptop.
82:It's free. No API key, no charge per photo, no subscription. A kid with an old hand-me-down laptop can run the whole darkroom.
92:*Sample photos (CC BY and BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons) by Wilfredor, Dietmar Rabich, Malene Thyssen, Holger Krisp, Charles J. Sharp and Ermell. Voices by Piper. Film made with Three.js. Music written in code.*
emoji 0 bold 0
Three small fixes left: turn the bullet list into normal sentences, rephrase "hand-me-down", and write the licence name without a dash.
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && cat > "$TEMP/fix.js" <<'EOF'
const fs = require('fs');
let s = fs.readFileSync('POST.md', 'utf8');
const rep = (a, b) => { if (!s.includes(a)) throw new Error('missing: ' + a.slice(0, 50)); s = s.replace(a, b); };
rep(`Some smaller pieces that make it work outside:
- A service worker caches the whole app, fonts included, so field mode opens with no signal.
- Photos get shrunk to 768 pixels on the phone and stored in IndexedDB. Nothing gets uploaded.
- If there's no model around when you load film, say you're already at the trailhead, the quests come from a small built in deck.
- If you walk with your phone and develop on your laptop, you can export the roll as one file and import it on the laptop.`,
`A few smaller things make it work outside. A service worker caches the whole app, fonts included, so field mode opens with no signal at all. Photos get shrunk to 768 pixels on the phone and stored in IndexedDB, and nothing gets uploaded. If there's no model around when you load film, say you're already at the trailhead, the quests come from a small built in deck instead. And if you walk with your phone but develop on your laptop, you can export the roll as one file and import it on the laptop.`);
rep(`A kid with an old hand-me-down laptop can run the whole darkroom.`, `A kid with an old laptop someone passed down to them can run the whole darkroom.`);
rep(`*Sample photos (CC BY and BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons) by`, `*Sample photos from Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons licensed, by`);
fs.writeFileSync('POST.md', s); console.log('ok');
EOF
node "$TEMP/fix.js" && awk 'NR>5' POST.md | grep -v "This is a submission" | sed -E 's#https?://[^ )]+##g; s#\{%[^%]*%\}##g; s#\[[^]]*\]\([^)]*\)##g' | grep -c -- "-\|โ\|โ"
ok
0
The post is clean: no dashes, emoji or bold. Now the README the same way. Its tables also used dash lines, so I'm writing it as plain paragraphs:
C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\README.md
The file C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\README.md has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context โ no need to Read it back)
The README is pushed and the new post is on the clipboard. Replacing the title and body in the DEV editor:
{
"query": "post title textarea and body content textarea",
"tabId": 1185253212
}
Found 2 matching elements
- ref_72: textbox ""Post Title"" (textbox) - Matches "post title textarea" - this is the textbox for entering the post title with placeholder "New post title here..."
- ref_111: textbox ""Post Content"" (textbox) - Matches "body content textarea" - this is the textbox for entering the post body content with placeholder "Write your post content here..."
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โข tabId 1185253212: "New Post - DEV Community" ("https://dev.to/new")
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[computer:left_click] Clicked on element ref_111
[computer:key] Pressed 1 key: ctrl+a
[computer:key] Pressed 1 key: ctrl+v
[computer:scroll_to] Scrolled to element with reference: ref_72
[computer:triple_click] Triple-clicked on element ref_72
[computer:key] Pressed 1 key: ctrl+a
[computer:type] Typed "Touch Grass, Not Glass: a camera that only works outside"
[computer:wait] Waited for 1 second
[computer:screenshot] Successfully captured screenshot (820x380, jpeg) - ID: ss_3990xjea0 โ 0.6-scale view; coordinate frame: 1366x633.
[Image: source: C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tool-results\mcp-claude-in-chrome-blob-1791267654227-vfgvaw.jpg]
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โข tabId 1185253212: "New Post - DEV Community" ("https://dev.to/new")
The title and all four tags are in place. Checking the body was fully replaced, with no leftovers from the first paste:
{"action":"javascript_exec","tabId":1185253212,"text":"const v = document.querySelector('textarea#article_body_markdown, textarea[aria-label=\"Post Content\"]').value; ({ length: v.length, starts: v.s...
{
"emDash": false,
"ends": "p and Ermell. Voices by Piper. Film made with Three.js. Music written in code.*\n",
"github": true,
"length": 8505,
"starts": "*This is a submission for the [Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI ",
"submissionLines": 1,
"youtube": true
}
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โข tabId 1185253212: "New Post - DEV Community" ("https://dev.to/new")
The body is exactly the new version: one copy, with the YouTube and GitHub embeds. Opening DEV's Preview to check how it renders:
{
"actions": [
{
"name": "find",
"input": {
"query": "Preview tab button at top",
"tabId": 1185253212
}
}
]
}
[find] Found 1 matching element
- ref_64: button "Preview" (button) - This is the "Preview" tab button located in the "View post modes" navigation at the top of the editor, matching the user's query for "Preview tab button at top"
Tab Context:
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โข tabId 1185253212: "New Post - DEV Community" ("https://dev.to/new")
{"actions":[{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"left_click","ref":"ref_64","tabId":1185253212,"action_summary":"Switches the editor to Preview mode"}},{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"wait","du...
[computer:left_click] Clicked on element ref_64
[computer:wait] Waited for 3 seconds
[computer:screenshot] Successfully captured screenshot (820x380, jpeg) - ID: ss_8988882c1 โ 0.6-scale view; coordinate frame: 1366x633.
[Image: source: C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tool-results\mcp-claude-in-chrome-blob-1791267685416-gchlv8.jpg]
[computer:scroll] Scrolled down by 10 ticks at (520, 350)
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[computer:wait] Waited for 2 seconds
[computer:screenshot] Successfully captured screenshot (820x380, jpeg) - ID: ss_4900vr78a โ 0.6-scale view; coordinate frame: 1366x633.
[Image: source: C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed\tool-results\mcp-claude-in-chrome-blob-1791267685418-d5oonw.jpg]
Tab Context:
- Executed on tabId: 1185253212
- Available tabs:
โข tabId 1185253212: "New Post - DEV Community" ("https://dev.to/new")
{"actions":[{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"scroll","coordinate":[520,350],"scroll_direction":"down","scroll_amount":5,"tabId":1185253212}},{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"wait","duration"...
[computer:scroll] Scrolled down by 5 ticks at (520, 350)
[computer:wait] Waited for 2 seconds
actions[2] (computer:screenshot) failed: Error capturing screenshot: CDP sendCommand "Page.captureScreenshot" timed out after 30000ms on tab 1185253212. The renderer may be frozen or unresponsive. (2 completed, 3 remaining)
{
"action": "screenshot",
"tabId": 1185253212,
"scale": 0.6
}
Error capturing screenshot: CDP sendCommand "Page.captureScreenshot" timed out after 30000ms on tab 1185253212. The renderer may be frozen or unresponsive.
Screenshots are timing out. That's usually because the tab isn't in front in your Chrome window. I'll check the preview's content directly instead:
{"action":"javascript_exec","tabId":1185253212,"text":"const yt = [...document.querySelectorAll('iframe')].map(f => f.src).filter(s => /youtube/.test(s)); const gh = !!document.querySelector('.ltag-gi...
{
"githubEmbed": true,
"h2": [
"DEV Community",
"What I Built",
"Demo",
"Code",
"angelraph\n / \n touch-grass-not-glass",
"How it works",
"How I Built It",
"What Gemma Got Wrong",
"Why Does Open Innovation Matter?",
"Prize Categories"
],
"visibility": "hidden",
"youtube": [
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/o1sWM7cywgc"
]
}
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- Executed on tabId: 1185253212
- Available tabs:
โข tabId 1185253212: "New Post - DEV Community" ("https://dev.to/new")
The preview renders correctly:
- The YouTube film is embedded under Demo.
- The GitHub repo card shows under Code, with the new plain-language README.
- All the sections are in order: What I Built, Demo, Code, How I Built It, What Gemma Got Wrong, Why Does Open Innovation Matter?, Prize Categories.
- Title: "Touch Grass, Not Glass: a camera that only works outside".
- Tags: #devchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma #opensource.
The post is fully filled in and waiting in your Chrome on the DEV tab, in Preview mode. I couldn't take a final screenshot because Chrome reports that tab as hidden, so switch to it to see it. Nothing has been saved or published yet.
One thing to decide before publishing: the "AI Disclosure" button next to Publish. I built this project and wrote the post with you, and DEV asks posts to say when AI helped write them. DEV's own challenge announcement is marked "AI-assisted". I'd recommend ticking it:
- It keeps the entry clean under the rules.
- Judges care about the project and the writing, so it won't hurt you.
- If it came out later that the post hid it, it could cost you the prize.
So, two quick answers:
1. AI Disclosure: should I set it to "AI-assisted"? (Recommended)
2. Publish: shall I click Publish now? Once published it's public on DEV; you can still edit it afterwards. If you'd rather look it over first, I can click Save Draft instead.
yes set ai disclosure and publish
{
"query": "AI Disclosure button",
"tabId": 1185253212
}
Found 1 matching element
- ref_115: button "AI Disclosure options" (button) - This button has the accessible name "AI Disclosure" and is labeled as "AI Disclosure options", which directly matches the search for "AI Disclosure button"
Tab Context:
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โข tabId 1185253212: "New Post - DEV Community" ("https://dev.to/new")
{
"action": "left_click",
"ref": "ref_115",
"tabId": 1185253212,
"action_summary": "Opens the AI Disclosure options menu"
}
Clicked on element ref_115
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- Executed on tabId: 1185253212
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โข tabId 1185253212: "New Post - DEV Community" ("https://dev.to/new")
<system-reminder>You used a single tool call this turn. Prefer browser_batch to execute multiple actions in one call โ it is significantly faster. Batch your next sequence of clicks, types, navigations, and screenshots together.</system-reminder>
{
"tabId": 1185253212,
"filter": "interactive",
"max_chars": 4000
}
link "DEV Community Home" [ref_56] href="/"
button "Edit" [ref_62] type="button"
button "Preview" [ref_64] type="button"
button "Close the editor" [ref_65] type="button"
link "https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app" [ref_658] href="https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app"
button "Publish" [ref_112] type="button"
button "Save" [ref_113] type="button"
button "AI Disclosure options" [ref_115] type="button"
button "Close" [ref_716] type="button"
radio [ref_717]
radio "No AI" [ref_718] type="radio"
radio [ref_719]
radio "Some AI (AI-assisted)" [ref_720] type="radio"
radio [ref_721]
radio "Fully Autonomous" [ref_722] type="radio"
button "Done" [ref_723] type="button"
button "Advanced Post options" [ref_117] type="button"
button "Revert" [ref_627] type="button"
button "Toggle AI Editor Helper" [ref_513]
Viewport: 1366x577
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โข tabId 1185253212: "New Post - DEV Community" ("https://dev.to/new")
{"actions":[{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"left_click","ref":"ref_720","tabId":1185253212,"action_summary":"Selects 'Some AI (AI-assisted)' disclosure"}},{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"l...
[computer:left_click] Clicked on element ref_720
actions[1] (computer:left_click) failed: No element found with reference: "ref_723". The element may have been removed from the page. (1 completed, 1 remaining)
{"action":"javascript_exec","tabId":1185253212,"text":"({ checked: [...document.querySelectorAll('input[type=radio]')].filter(r => r.checked).map(r => (r.closest('label')?.textContent || r.value).trim...
{
"aiButton": "AI: Some AI",
"checked": [],
"popupOpen": false
}
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The AI disclosure now shows "AI: Some AI". Publishing:
{
"query": "Publish button",
"tabId": 1185253212
}
Found 1 matching element
- ref_112: button "Publish" (button) - This is the primary "Publish" button located in the form toolbar, used to publish the post being edited.
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โข tabId 1185253212: "New Post - DEV Community" ("https://dev.to/new")
{"actions":[{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"left_click","ref":"ref_112","tabId":1185253212,"action_summary":"Publishes the post on DEV"}},{"name":"computer","input":{"action":"wait","duration":5...
[computer:left_click] Clicked on element ref_112
[computer:wait] Waited for 5 seconds
[javascript_tool:javascript_exec] {
"errors": [],
"title": "Touch Grass, Not Glass: a camera that only works outside - DEV Community",
"url": "https://dev.to/raphelevator/touch-grass-not-glass-a-camera-that-only-works-outside-2268"
}
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Published. Checking that the live post looks right:
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"ai": "AI-assisted",
"github": true,
"sections": [
"What I Built",
"Demo",
"Code",
"angelraph\n / \n touch-grass-not-glass",
"How it works",
"How I Built It",
"What Gemma Got Wrong",
"Why Does Open Innovation Matter?",
"Prize Categories"
],
"tags": [
"#devchallenge",
"#hf26challenge",
"#gemma",
"#opensource",
"#devchallenge",
"#hf26challenge"
],
"youtube": true
}
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C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\memory\hacktoberfest-touch-grass.md
The file C:\Users\Admin\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\memory\hacktoberfest-touch-grass.md has been updated successfully.
Your message arrived just after the post went live. I'd already clicked Publish following your earlier "yes set ai disclosure and publish", so the post is public now:
https://dev.to/raphelevator/touch-grass-not-glass-a-camera-that-only-works-outside-2268
What's live: the title, four tags, the "AI-assisted" label, the YouTube film, the GitHub card, and all seven sections. It's only been up a minute or two, so this is easy to handle either way:
- Review it as it is. It's open in your Chrome tab. Tell me anything to change, or click Edit on the post. DEV lets you edit after publishing, and edits go live straight away.
- Unpublish it while you review. I can switch it back to a draft so nobody sees it, then republish once you're happy. Unpublishing is DEV's own setting, nothing is lost, and the deadline is still Oct 11.
Do you want me to unpublish it to draft now?
so whats left here
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Hacktoberfest Week 1 "Touch Grass" โ Plan
Context
User wants to enter the DEV Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge, Week 1 (Touch Grass). Deadline Oct 11, 11:59 PM (local time) โ ~5 days from today (Oct 6). Project folder touch glass is empty.
What they actually need (there is no "form")
Submission = publish a DEV post using their template, tags devchallenge, hf26challenge. Post must contain:
- What I Built โ what it does, who it's for, how it gets people outside
- Demo โ deployed link or video
- Code โ public GitHub repo (embed it)
- How I Built It โ which open-weight model / open-source framework / local inference
- Why Open Innovation Matters โ what open made possible that a closed API wouldn't (offline, privacy, cost, fine-tuning)
- (optional) Agent session via DevRelay; Prize categories list
Judging: writing quality weighted most, then theme fit (open AI at the core + gets people outside), creativity, technical execution, partner tech. Bonus: actually use it outside and report how it went. Must be a brand-new project.
Recommended idea: "Touch Grass, Not Glass"
A screen-minimal, offline-first PWA where open-weight AI refuses to let you stay on the screen:
- Gives you one short field quest tuned to season/time/weather ("find a leaf with something living on it", "a bird you can hear but not see").
- Screen then goes dark โ only a compass glyph + quest line. Spoken via open-source TTS (Piper / browser speech).
- You snap one photo; an open-weight vision model (Gemma 3 / Gemma 3n) verifies the find on-device/locally and writes a 2-line field note.
- Finds become a "pressed leaf" field journal โ the only rich screen, viewed later at home.
- Metric shown is "minutes away from the screen", not streaks/likes.
- Privacy: photos + GPS never leave the device โ strong "why open" story.
Prize targets: Overall + Best Use of Gemma (featured, $200). Optional: Render (hosting the PWA shell).
Build steps (once approved)
- Scaffold PWA (Vite + vanilla/React) in
touch glass/; offline service worker. - Inference: Ollama +
gemma3vision locally (demo) with browser fallback (Transformers.js/WebGPU) if hardware allows. - Quest generator prompt + verifier prompt; dark "field mode" UI; journal page.
- Push to public GitHub repo, deploy shell (Render/GitHub Pages), record demo video outside.
- Draft DEV post in
touch glass/POST.mdfollowing template. Then open the DEV template in the browser (user must be logged in), fill in the editor, show the user the final preview, and click Publish only after an explicit "yes" in chat.
Decisions
- Concept: Touch Grass, Not Glass
- Hardware: NVIDIA GPU PC โ Ollama +
gemma3(4B/12B vision) locally; PWA calls the local Ollama API - Publishing: Claude fills the DEV post and asks for a final confirmation before Publish
- User still needs to: take the app outside for a real photo/demo video (bonus points), and be logged into DEV + GitHub
Verification
Run app locally, complete a quest with a real outdoor photo, confirm verification works with network disabled.
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recieved this mail
Hey there,
Week 1 of the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge is officially live!
This week's theme is Touch Grass: build something with open-source AI at its core that gets people off the screen and into the world. Hiking, gardening, birding, run clubs, fall foliage: if it gets someone outside, it counts.
This year's Hacktoberfest is all about open-source AI and open-weight models. To participate, build a brand-new project and write about it on DEV. You can run an open-weight model, build on an open-source agent framework, run inference locally, or all three. They most important part? Tell us why open innovation matters for what you built.
TAKE ME TO THE CHALLENGE
Free credits: several partners are giving participants credits and promo codes, including Tinker, Render, Backboard, and ElevenLabs. Claim yours at hacktoberfest.com/my.
Winners will be announced the week of October 12.
GOOD LUCK!
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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Submission ๐ฟ
Week 1 of our five Hacktoberfest DEV Challenges starts today! Running through October 11, the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 1 gives you a full week to build.
**This year's Hacktoberfest is all about building brand-new projects with open-source AI and open-weight models. Here's everything you need to know about Hacktoberfest 2026.
Missed the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge? No problem. Every challenge is a fresh start, so you're competing on the same footing as everyone else.
This week, we'll select one overall winner and a winner in each of our 16 partner categories. See all five challenges and every partner category on the HF26 DEV Challenge Hub.
Let's get to it!
This week's theme: Touch Grass
Build something with open-weight models or open-source AI that gets people off the screen and into the world.
That can mean running an open-weight model, building on an open-source agent harness or framework, running inference locally, or all three. Whatever you pick, the open pieces should be what makes your project work.
Hiking, gardening, birding, run clubs, fall foliage: if it gets someone outside, it counts. The best builds here should make the screen the shortest part of the experience. A few ideas to get you going:
- A bird call identifier that works on the trail with no signal
- A garden planner that tells you what to plant this week based on your local frost dates
- A run club route builder that finds the best fall foliage near you
In your post, tell us why open innovation matters for what you built. Does it run on a phone in the backcountry with no internet? Keep someone's location data off a server they don't control? Let you fine-tune, swap models, or change how your agent behaves? Cost nothing to run? Tell us where your open-based approach worked better than a closed one.
Bonus points if you take it outside, use it, and tell us how it went.
Touch Grass Submission Template
Prize Categories
Alongside our overall winner, we have 16 prize categories for projects that use a specific partner's technology. You don't need to use any of these to win the overall prize, but if you've been curious about any of this tech, this is a great excuse to give one a try. Full descriptions are on the hub.
Featured categories:
- Best Use of Render
- Best Use of TabPFN
- Best Use of Tinker
- Best Use of Arduino
- Best Use of DigitalOcean
- Best Use of Gemma
Partner categories:
- Best Use of Backboard
- Best Use of ElevenLabs
- Best Use of Entire
- Best Use of GitHub Copilot
- Best Use of Mastra
- Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
- Best Use of Sentry Agent Tracing
- Best Use of SerpApi
- Best Use of Temporal
- Best Use of Tiger Data
Pro Tip: Partner category winners come from a smaller pool of submissions, so your odds are meaningfully higher.
Note: One project can enter every category it genuinely uses, but you can only win once per challenge, and we'll aim to celebrate as many different builders as possible across the month.
Free credits: several partners are giving participants credits and promo codes, including Tinker, Render, Backboard, and ElevenLabs. Claim yours at hacktoberfest.com/my.
A huge thank you to our partners for making these prizes possible!
Judging Criteria
This is DEV, so your write-up matters most.
- Writing Quality (weighted most heavily): Is the post clear and engaging? Does it explain what you built, who it's for, and why open innovation matters?
- Relevance to the Prompt and Theme: Is open-source AI or open-weight models at the core of the project? Does it get people off the screen and into the world?
- Creativity: Is it an original idea, or a fresh take on a familiar problem?
- Technical Execution: Does it work, and is it well built?
- Use of Partner Technology (optional): If you're entering a partner category, does the project use that technology in a meaningful way?
Show your work. We'd love to see how you built it. Save your agent session with DevRelay and embed it in your post, or link to it. It's optional, but it helps the judges understand your process.
Prizes
- Overall winner (1): $250 USD, a DEV++ membership, and an exclusive DEV badge
- Featured category winners (6): $200 USD and an exclusive DEV badge each
- Partner category winners (10): $100 USD and an exclusive DEV badge each
All participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge.
How To Participate
Publish a post on DEV using the submission template below. Tell us what you built and how it gets people outside, show us a demo, and explain why open innovation matters for what you built.
Touch Grass Submission Template
Please review our judging criteria, rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contest rules, such as eligibility requirements.
Need Help?
- New to Hacktoberfest this year? Start with Everything You Need To Know About Hacktoberfest 2026.
- Come hang out and ask questions in the MLH Discord.
- The challenge page has resources from our partners to help you get started.
Important Dates
- October 5: Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 1 begins!
- October 11: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
- Week of October 12: Winners announced
Week 2 launches Monday, October 12 with a brand-new theme. Follow #hf26challenge so you don't miss the reveal.
Questions about the challenge? Drop them in the comments below.
Happy Hacktoberfest, and good luck!
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Ariba Sayed
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Excited!
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adriens
โขOct 5
First benefit of this Hackathon, I used Kaggle and its free GPUs in a brand new way, will make me more productive in my next projects
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Divyansh Goyal
โขOct 5
Excited !!
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0xGozie
โขOct 5
Back to work
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โขOct 5
Oh great, another work week...๐
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Abubakar Ahmed
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Since the submission deadline is 11 October 2026 at 11:59 PM PDT (which corresponds to 12 October 2026 at 11:59 AM PKT), could you please confirm if we can submit by our local Pakistan time? Thanks
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Yes, everyone submits according to their corresponding local time!
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access this link on my broswer to fill the submision form
https://dev.to/devteam/join-the-hacktoberfest-open-source-ai-challenge-week-1-touch-grass-2450-in-prizes-across-17-4pom?bb=264623
now make it make more sense and win a price with creativity that is top notch
what exactly do they needs
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and how many tracks it covers?
Here's where things stand against the challenge rules and our plan.
Does it fit the challenge? Yes, every required part is in the published post:
| Requirement | Status |
|---|---|
| Brand-new project | โ Built from scratch this week |
| Open-weight AI at the core | โ Gemma 3 running locally through Ollama writes the quests and checks the photos |
| Gets people off the screen | โ The screen goes dark outside; the only score is time with the screen off |
Post with tags devchallenge, hf26challenge
|
โ Published |
| What I Built / Demo / Code / How I Built It / Why Open Innovation Matters | โ All there, with the live site, the YouTube film and the GitHub embed |
| Prize Categories section | โ Best Use of Gemma |
| Before the deadline (Oct 11) | โ Published Oct 6 |
What's left (all optional, but they help you win):
- The real walk (bonus points). The rules say "bonus points if you take it outside, use it, and tell us how it went". We haven't done this yet. A 15-minute daytime walk with the app on your phone, plus a few honest lines from you, and I'll add a short section to the post.
- A real phone test. We've never run the full loop on your actual phone outside (load film โ walk โ export โ develop on the PC), and we haven't confirmed field mode works in airplane mode. The walk in step 1 would test both.
- "My Agent Session" (optional, "judges love it"). This means sharing a record of this build session through DevRelay. It would make public that I built most of this with you. The post already says "AI-assisted", so that's consistent, but it's your call.
Where we changed the original plan, and why:
- The plan assumed an NVIDIA GPU. Your PC doesn't have one, so photos take about 2 minutes each. That's what led to the "develop at home like film" idea, which became the strongest part of the post.
- We skipped Vite, Render, and the in-browser AI fallback. The site runs on Vercel with no build step instead.
- The plan's demo video was supposed to be filmed outside. We made the voxel cartoon instead, with sample photos, and the post says so openly.
How many prize tracks does it cover? Two:
1. Overall winner ($250): every entry competes for this.
2. Best Use of Gemma ($200, a featured category): a strong fit, since Gemma does all the AI work.
The other categories (Render, ElevenLabs, GitHub Copilot and so on) only count if the project really uses that technology, and it doesn't. We could deploy to Render to qualify, but hosting a static site is a weak "meaningful use" and could look like box-ticking. You can only win once per challenge anyway, so I'd stay with these two.
My recommendation: do the short walk this week, send me your photos and a few honest sentences about it, and I'll add an "I took it outside" section to the post. That covers the bonus points and the real phone test together.
we should do all this
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What's left (all optional, but they help you win):
- The real walk (bonus points). The rules say "bonus points if you take it outside, use it, and tell us how it went". We haven't done this yet. A 15-minute daytime walk with the app on your phone, plus a few honest lines from you, and I'll add a short section to the post.
- A real phone test. We've never run the full loop on your actual phone outside (load film โ walk โ export โ develop on the PC), and we haven't confirmed field mode works in airplane mode. The walk in step 1 would test both.
- "My Agent Session" (optional, "judges love it"). This means sharing a record of this build session through DevRelay. It would make public that I built most of this with you. The post already says "AI-assisted", so that's consistent, but it's your call. </pasted_content id="9ee1">
Let's do all three. Items 1 and 2 need you outside with your phone, so first I'll test everything I can from here and prepare a simple walk guide. Then I'll look into DevRelay for item 3.
Testing field mode with the network fully off, plus the export โ import โ develop loop:
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass/_ref" && cat > offline.mjs <<'EOF'
import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
const require = createRequire(process.env.FF_DIR + '/');
const { chromium } = require('playwright');
const b = await chromium.launch();
// PHONE: load the live site once online, then go offline for the whole walk
const phoneCtx = await b.newContext({ viewport: { width: 390, height: 844 }, isMobile: true, hasTouch: true, acceptDownloads: true });
const phone = await phoneCtx.newPage(); const errs = [];
phone.on('pageerror', e => errs.push(e.message));
await phone.goto('https://touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/app.html');
await phone.waitForFunction(() => navigator.serviceWorker?.controller || null, null, { timeout: 15000 }).catch(() => {});
await phone.reload(); await phone.waitForTimeout(2000);
await phoneCtx.setOffline(true);
await phone.reload(); await phone.waitForTimeout(1500);
const loadedOffline = await phone.evaluate(() => !!document.getElementById('loadRoll'));
await phone.click('#loadRoll'); await phone.waitForSelector('#ready:not([hidden])', { timeout: 15000 });
const author = await phone.textContent('#readyAuthor');
await phone.click('#startWalk');
for (const n of ['1-maple', '2-oak', '3-light', '4-slug', '5-squirrel', '6-sky']) { await phone.setInputFiles('#shutter', `photos/${n}.jpg`); await phone.waitForTimeout(400); }
await phone.waitForSelector('#done:not([hidden])');
const glass = await phone.textContent('#doneGlass');
await phone.click('#toJournal'); await phone.waitForTimeout(500);
const [dl] = await Promise.all([phone.waitForEvent('download'), phone.click('[data-act="export"]')]);
const file = 'shots/test-roll.json'; await dl.saveAs(file);
console.log({ loadedOffline, author, glass, exportedKB: Math.round(readFileSync(file).length / 1024), errs });
// PC: import the roll on localhost and develop one frame with real Gemma
const pc = await (await b.newContext({ viewport: { width: 430, height: 932 } })).newPage();
await pc.goto('http://localhost:5173/app.html'); await pc.evaluate(() => indexedDB.deleteDatabase('touch-grass')); await pc.reload();
await pc.waitForSelector('#modelPill.ok', { timeout: 30000 });
await pc.click('[data-tab="journal"]'); await pc.setInputFiles('#importRoll', file); await pc.waitForTimeout(800);
const frames = await pc.evaluate(() => document.querySelectorAll('.entry').length);
console.log({ importedFrames: frames, developButton: await pc.textContent('[data-act="develop"]') });
await b.close();
EOF
FF_DIR="C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/claude/C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass/fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed/scratchpad/ff" node offline.mjs
{
loadedOffline: true,
author: 'Quests written by the pocket deck for park, October morning.',
glass: '0% glass-free',
exportedKB: 1183,
errs: []
}
{ importedFrames: 6, developButton: 'Develop 6 frames' }
{
"query": "select:WebFetch,WebSearch",
"max_results": 2
}
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# DevRelay Overview
## What is DevRelay?
DevRelay functions as "an MCP server and skill pack for your coding agent," enabling developers to interact with hackathons, publish work, and access community knowledge without leaving their development environment.
## Saving/Uploading Claude Code Sessions
The webpage describes the capability but doesn't provide exact command steps. It notes that users can "Save an agent transcript to DEV and embed it in a post," with the feature requiring agent permission before publishing.
## Data Upload Details
When publishing, DevRelay handles:
- Agent session transcripts
- Code snippets from your work
- Project information extracted from repositories
- Tags derived from code diffs
The platform emphasizes user control: "It checks with you before it registers, claims, or publishes anything."
## Privacy & Redaction
The content indicates drafts remain "private until you publish," but specific redaction mechanisms aren't detailed in the provided material.
## Embedding in DEV Posts
The webpage references an "Agent Session" tag for embedding transcripts in posts, though precise technical implementation steps aren't specified in this documentation.
**Installation** requires running a curl command, restarting your agent, and signing in with MLH credentials to begin using these features.
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C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\touch glass\app.js
1 import * as ollama from './ollama.js';
2 import { saveRoll, getRoll, listRolls, deleteRoll } from './store.js';
3
4 const $ = id => document.getElementById(id);
5 const MONTHS = ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'];
6
7 // Used when no model is reachable (e.g. loading a roll on a phone on the trail).
8 const POCKET_DECK = [
9 'Find a leaf that something has already taken a bite out of.',
10 'Photograph the oldest-looking bark you can find.',
11 'Find a place where light comes through something green.',
12 'Find a sign that an animal passed here today.',
13 'Photograph a seed, cone, nut, or berry still on its plant.',
14 'Find something growing where nobody planted it.',
15 'Photograph the sky through a gap in branches.',
16 'Find a color in nature you could not name.',
17 'Find a spider web, a nest, or any home that is not human.',
18 'Photograph moss, lichen, or something softer than it looks.',
19 'Find water doing something: dripping, pooling, reflecting.',
20 'Find the smallest flower you can.',
21 ];
22
23 const settings = {
24 get url() { return localStorage.getItem('ollamaUrl') || 'http://localhost:11434'; },
25 set url(v) { localStorage.setItem('ollamaUrl', v); },
$ cd "/c/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch glass" && cat > "$TEMP/deck.js" <<'EOF'
const fs = require('fs');
let s = fs.readFileSync('app.js', 'utf8');
const start = s.indexOf('// Used when no model is reachable');
const end = s.indexOf('];', start) + 2;
s = s.slice(0, start) + `// Used when no model is reachable (e.g. loading a roll on a phone on the trail).
// Easy quests that exist almost anywhere, plus a few that fit the chosen place.
const POCKET_DECK = {
any: [
'Find a plant growing somewhere nobody planted it.',
'Photograph the sky with at least one cloud in it.',
'Find a leaf with a hole or a bite in it.',
'Photograph your own shadow on the ground.',
'Find something green that is smaller than your thumb.',
'Photograph a bird, or any place a bird might sit.',
'Find a tree and photograph its bark up close.',
'Find a flower of any size or colour.',
'Photograph something the wind is moving.',
'Find an insect, a spider web, or an ant trail.',
],
'city streets': ['Find a weed growing in a crack in the pavement.', 'Photograph a tree that grows beside a road.', 'Find a plant in a pot, a window or a balcony.'],
'a backyard or garden': ['Find a seed, a pod or a fruit still on its plant.', 'Photograph soil that is wet or freshly dug.', 'Find a leaf bigger than your hand.'],
'a city park': ['Find the oldest-looking tree in the park.', 'Photograph grass from very close, at ground level.', 'Find a fallen leaf, flower or twig on the path.'],
'a forest trail': ['Find moss, lichen or a mushroom.', 'Photograph light coming through the leaves.', 'Find a fallen branch or log.'],
'a beach or riverbank': ['Find water doing something: moving, dripping or reflecting.', 'Photograph a smooth stone or a shell.', 'Find a plant growing right at the waterโs edge.'],
};
const pocketQuests = place => shuffle([...shuffle(POCKET_DECK[place] || []).slice(0, 2), ...shuffle(POCKET_DECK.any).slice(0, 4)]);` + s.slice(end);
s = s.replace(`quests = shuffle(POCKET_DECK).slice(0, 6);`, `quests = pocketQuests(place);`);
fs.writeFileSync('app.js', s);
console.log(s.includes('pocketQuests(place)'), s.includes('shuffle(POCKET_DECK)'));
EOF
node "$TEMP/deck.js" && sed -i "s/touch-grass-v5/touch-grass-v6/" sw.js && node --check app.js 2>&1 | head -3; node -e "import('file:///C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/touch%20glass/app.js').catch(e=>console.log(e.message.slice(0,80)))" 2>&1 | head -2
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The code parses fine. Quick real test: phone offline, "Streets" picked:
The easier quests are live. A test roll for "Streets" gave: a weed in a crack in the pavement, a tree beside a road, a leaf with a hole in it, something green smaller than your thumb, and so on. Now here are your guides.
๐ฑ Your walk: step by step
๐ At home, before you go (2 minutes, with Wi-Fi on)
- On your phone, open Chrome and go to touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/app.html
- Tap the โฎ menu (top right) โ Add to Home screen. Now it works even with no internet.
- Open the app from the new icon on your home screen.
- Tap where you're going: Streets, Park, Gardenโฆ Pick the one closest to the truth.
- Tap Load film โ then Start walking.
- Turn your volume up a little; it reads each mission out loud.
- Bonus (good for the story): turn on Airplane mode. You'll prove it works with no signal.
๐ณ Outside (15โ20 minutes)
- Read the mission. Lock your phone and put it in your pocket. (The less the screen is on, the better your score.)
- Walk slowly and look around.
- Found it? Unlock โ tap I FOUND IT โ the camera opens โ take one photo โ tap โ / OK.
- A new mission appears. Phone back in your pocket.
- Can't find it around you? Just tap skip this one. Totally fine, and it's honest to say so in the post.
- After the last one you'll see "Walk complete" with your minutes and glass-free %. ๐ธ Screenshot this screen (Power + Volume down).
๐ก Back home
- Turn Airplane mode off. Tap Open the roll โ Export. A file like
roll-2026-10-07-ab12.jsonsaves to your phone's Downloads. - Send that file to your computer: WhatsApp it to yourself, email it, or use a USB cable. Save it on the PC.
- Tell me where you saved it. I'll import it and let Gemma develop your photos on your computer (about 2 minutes per photo), then show you the results.
โ๏ธ Then tell me, like you're texting a friend
- Where did you walk, and for how long? What was your glass-free %?
- Your favourite find?
- Which missions did you skip, and why?
- Did Gemma get anything wrong when it developed them?
- One thing you noticed that you'd usually walk past.
- Send me 2โ3 phone screenshots (a dark mission screen, and the "Walk complete" screen).
I'll turn that into a short, honest "I took it outside" section and add it to the post. That's the bonus points.
๐ค Agent session (2 minutes, at your computer, do it after the walk so it includes everything)
- In Chrome, open dev.to/agent_sessions/new
-
Title:
Building Touch Grass, Not Glass with Claude Codeยท Agent Tool: Claude Code - Click Session File to browse. In the file picker's address bar, paste the path below and press Enter.
- Click Parse File. DEV cleans it up in your browser, then lets you untick parts. Your email address appears in a few git commands, so untick anything showing it, plus anything else you don't want public.
- Click Save. It gives you a session ID. Send it to me, and I'll add a "My Agent Session" section to the post.
[REDACTED]\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed.jsonl
Deadline: Oct 11, 11:59 PM. Any daylight day before then works for the walk. ๐ฟ
whats this for early
npm start
you didnt talk about it again
and for the things you want me to do and the walk guide, also attach link on it for easy access
What npm start is for
It's only for developing the photos on your computer.
- The website on your phone (Vercel) handles the walk.
- Gemma lives on your computer, and the public website can't reach it.
-
npm startruns a copy of the app on your computer, at http://localhost:5173. That copy can talk to Gemma and develop your photos.
You probably don't need to type it. I already have it running while this chat is open: http://localhost:5173/app.html. If you ever do need it yourself, open a terminal in the touch glass folder and run the command below, then open the localhost link. (Ollama, which runs Gemma, starts by itself on Windows.)
npm start
๐ฑ Your walk, with links
๐ At home, before you go (Wi-Fi on)
- On your phone, open ๐ touch-grass-not-glass.vercel.app/app.html
- Chrome โฎ menu โ Add to Home screen, then open the app from that icon.
- Tap where you're going (Streets / Park / Garden / Trail / Water).
- Tap Load film โ Start walking. Volume up a little.
- Bonus: turn on Airplane mode.
๐ณ Outside (15โ20 min)
- Read the mission โ lock the phone, pocket it, walk and look.
- Found it โ unlock โ I FOUND IT โ take one photo โ โ.
- Can't find it โ skip this one.
- At the end, screenshot the "Walk complete" screen.
๐ก Back home
- Airplane mode off โ Open the roll โ Export. A
roll-โฆ.jsonfile saves to Downloads. - Send the file to your PC (WhatsApp to yourself, email, or USB) and save it, for example in Downloads.
- Tell me where it is, and I'll develop it at ๐ localhost:5173/app.html (Journal โ Import a roll โ Develop). Or do it yourself with those same three taps.
โ๏ธ Text me
Where you walked, how long, your glass-free %, your favourite find, what you skipped, anything Gemma got wrong, and one thing you noticed. Plus 2โ3 screenshots. I'll add it to ๐ your DEV post.
๐ค Agent session (after the walk, on your computer)
- Open ๐ dev.to/agent_sessions/new
-
Title:
Building Touch Grass, Not Glass with Claude Codeยท Agent Tool: Claude Code - Click Session File, paste the path below into the file picker's address bar, and press Enter.
- Click Parse File, then untick any part that shows your email or anything private.
- Click Save, then send me the session ID. I'll add it to the post.
[REDACTED]\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed.jsonl
Deadline: Oct 11, 11:59 PM ๐ฟ
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Session File
Drop your session file here or click to browse
Supports .jsonl and .json files
Where to find your session files
Claude Code
~/.claude/projects/<project>/*.jsonl
Codex (OpenAI)
~/.codex/sessions/YYYY/MM/DD/*.jsonl
Gemini CLI
~/.gemini/tmp/session-*.json
OpenCode
Run opencode export <session-id> > opencode-session.json, then upload the exported file.
Pi
~/.pi/agent/sessions/<project>/*.jsonl
GitHub Copilot
~/.copilot/session-state/<session-id>/events.jsonl
Parse File
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You're on the right page. The tricky bit is that the .claude folder is hidden, so you won't see it by clicking around. Easiest way:
- Click "Drop your session file here or click to browse". A Windows file window opens.
- At the bottom of that window there's a "File name:" box. Click in it.
- Paste this whole line into it:
[REDACTED]\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass\fa682714-f507-44b2-835d-21de5eebe1ed.jsonl
- Press Enter. The file is now selected (about 20 MB).
-
Session Title:
Building Touch Grass, Not Glass with Claude Codeยท Agent Tool: Claude Code - Click Parse File.
- On the next screen, look through the parts and untick anything showing your email ([REDACTED]) or anything else you'd rather keep private.
- Click Save, then send me the session ID or link it shows. I'll add a "My Agent Session" section to your post.
If the File name trick doesn't work, paste just the folder part ([REDACTED]\.claude\projects\C--Users-Admin-Desktop-touch-glass) into the address bar at the top of the file window, press Enter, and pick the file starting with fa682714.
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Best Use of Gemma. Gemma does all the AI work here: Gemma 3 on my laptop through Ollama, and Gemma 4 in the online darkroom, both writing the quests and developing the photos from the same prompts, with structured output.
Sample photos from Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons licensed, by Wilfredor, Dietmar Rabich, Malene Thyssen, Holger Krisp, Charles J. Sharp and Ermell. Voices by Piper. Film made with Three.js. Music written in code.

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