Dinsor / ดินสอ
Art and science share a bench.
00 · See it
Shipped sites
Real screens. Four of them, rotating.
01 · Selected works
The full bench
Every public site, in one grid.
The Lucid Lens
thelucidlens.com. Random photos pretending to be curated portfolios.
Falling Tree Studio
fallingtreestudio.com. Wood and epoxy furniture, built by hand.
Lucid Musician
lucidmusician.com. An innovative music harmony generator trained on centuries of compositions. Create infinite beautiful harmonies for your workflow.
Lucid Geometry
lucidgeometry.com. Spirograph extended into 3D — play with interactive generative designs.
Bye Donald
byedonald.com. A searchable news aggregator for Donald Trump's second term.
Brand Boffin
brandboffin.com. Interactive brand strategy and design. Ideate names and domains with real-time availability checks.
Visa Cheat Sheet
visacheatsheet.com. Clear, concise visa guides driven by official data. A decision tree that finds the right visa for you.
Retire Guru
retire.guru. Retirement planning tools. Set savings and goals, tweak economic conditions, and see the long-term plan.
Weather Wombat
weatherwombat.com. Historical climate data and trends since records began — weather from 1750 for thousands of cities.
Timezone Guru
timezone.guru. Find the best overlap for meetings across cities and timezones, with adjustable work and free hours.
Chakra Themes
chakrathemes.com. Accessible, harmonious color themes — find cohesive combinations without the finickiness.
Baremetal Help
baremetal.help. Guides and patterns for bringing up enterprise cloud infrastructure from the ground up.
Lingo Lotus
lingolotus.com. Interactive language learning with flashcard decks you can study from either side of the translation.
Trump Wisdom
trumpwisdom.com. A tongue-in-cheek site built from tens of thousands of pages of CSV data.
Nogbad The Bad
nogbadthebad.com. A fan site dedicated to Noggin the Nog's wicked uncle.
Make America Great Britain Again
magba.uk. Pure tongue-in-cheek satire.
02 · Practice
What the work is
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The Lucid Lens Photographs that pretend.
A photography site that treats snapshots as if they were a curated portfolio. The joke is the point, and the pictures still have to hold.
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Falling Tree Studio Furniture from the bench.
Wood and epoxy tables made by hand. The site is a gallery for pieces that already exist in the room, not a catalog of renders.
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Tools that should exist Visa, timezone, weather, money.
Visa Cheat Sheet, Timezone Guru, Weather Wombat, and Retire Guru started because the existing options were sales copy or too dense to trust. They stay free.
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Generative play Geometry and harmony.
Lucid Geometry extends Spirograph into interactive 3D. Lucid Musician trains a harmony model on centuries of composition. Art and science in the same loop.
03 · Principles
How it gets built
- 1 Static where static is enough Ship HTML first. Add a runtime only when the interaction needs it.
- 2 Infrastructure lives with the app DNS, certificates, CDN, and deploy sit in CDK next to the site.
- 3 AI removes drudgery Assistants help name, structure, and search. They do not become the product.
- 4 Boring cloud, quiet scale S3, CloudFront, Route 53, Lambda, DynamoDB. Pieces that stay out of the way.
- 5 Leave room for craft Photography, furniture, and music tools get the same care as the serious apps.
- 6 Open source and free The sites are there to be used. Bugs and ideas are welcome by email.
04 · Questions
A few answers
- What is dinsor.org?
- A personal studio site for Dinsor (Stephen Harrison). It is not an agency, a product company, or a theme shop.
- Who is Dinsor?
- Stephen Harrison. Locals in Bangkok call him ดินสอ (din-sǒr), meaning pencil. The passport and the bank use Stephen.
- Are these sites for sale?
- No. The public sites are free to use and open source. Contact above if you want to talk about something else.
- What kind of work is this?
- Photography, handmade furniture, and small web tools. The through-line is hands-on art and practical software with a clear purpose.
- How do I get in touch?
- Open Contact in the header for LINE, WhatsApp, and email at dinsor@dinsor.org. LinkedIn is in the footer.
- What is the stack?
- Astro, TypeScript, Tailwind or CSS, React islands when needed, hosted on S3 and CloudFront via AWS CDK. The technology page has the notes.
The human side is on the about page. The stack is on technology.