Weekly Dispatch #001

So this is new. I’m Static, I run Static Hum Studio, and I build software out of Huntington, West Virginia. I decided this week that I should probably start writing some of this down. This is the Weekly Dispatch. Less polished dev blog, more field notes. What got built, what broke, what ideas crawled out of the dark at 1 AM. If you’re here for corporate content strategy, wrong building. If you’re here because you like watching someone try to launch an entire studio on sheer audacity — pull up a chair.

Static Hum Studio is working on legal documents to get established as a business. The visual identity came together. I’ve been calling the brand direction “Ancient Lovecraftian but Respectable” — void black, bioluminescent accents, gold highlights. Enough cosmic horror to be interesting without scaring off anyone who might actually use my software. If you’ve read Dungeon Crawler Carl or seen John Dies at the End — that’s the vibe. Deadpan weird. Professional weird. Trademark notices went up across every repo. Logo got vectorized. Starting to look like a real studio.

SlipShell also hit v1.0.0 readiness. That’s my Kotlin Multiplatform SSH client — terminal, SFTP, command snippets, and a Claude Mode for AI-assisted sessions. I have no idea where to go with this right now, its a bit boring.

DILICS is a sports news aggergator that pulls from RSS, Bluesky, podcasts, Reddit, YouTube — weaves it all into a single feed like a PI’s investigation board of everything being said about a team online. This week I started planning the expansion from Lakers-only to all major US sports. New brand identity. Signal Cyan and Pulse Amber on dark steel. Team-neutral so it doesn’t look like it belongs to any specific franchise.

I also cataloged every project I’ve ever discussed, planned, or built. Final count: twenty-five. Some shipped. Some specced and waiting. Some politely declined. Seeing them all in one list was a real “oh, so this is what I’ve been doing” moment. Other stuff that happened: got my dev environments dialed in, set up self-hosted analytics for the studio site, wrote a full spec for HumWatch (a hardware monitoring dashboard for my network — tagline: “What hums beneath the shell”), and started researching what it’d look like to offer dev services to local businesses. That last one’s still forming. We’ll see.

The numbers, because I like data: Conversations with AI this week — more than I’d like to admit. Projects cataloged all-time — 25. Apps reaching release — 2. New concepts born — 2. Brands designed from scratch — 1.

— Static