The Three-Word Poem Generator

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A command-line tool that generates poems from exactly three words: ash, vinyl, light.

It knows three words because I believe constraints make better work. Give a generator the whole dictionary and it becomes an algorithm. Give it three words and it becomes a poet — or at least, a very sincere accountant of feelings.

Written in a single evening. Used more than anything else I’ve built this year.

$ poem ash vinyl light

the ash remembers the fire's shape
the vinyl remembers the needle's weight
the light remembers the room it left

Deploy Playlists

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A living archive of the playlists I deploy to. Every release deserves a soundtrack; every failed build deserves patience.

The Courage to Be Sincere — The 1975, for writing honest documentation
The Weather Inside — Ben Howard, for the failing build
The Body as Interface — FKA twigs, for the strange refactor
The Tenderness Protocol — Perfume Genius, for the final pass
The Private Weather — Fiona Apple, for the post-mortem

The rule: never deploy to a song you won’t remember hearing.

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The Three-Word Poem Generator

Deploy Playlists