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Factory Design is a "label" created by Jaime Fausto. Its goal is to create personal software that mixes technology, art, and nature. Bright things for a disposable world.

Open for projects, but mostly experimenting on different canvases and doing what sparks joy.

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Factory Design

CHANGELOG

April 2026
Contingency Plan Submitted to App Store. Waiting for review.
Dictum New Mac splash page on dictumapp.com
Dictum Mac version submitted to App Store. Waiting for review.
gtrain.baby Plan Ahead: upcoming service changes surfaced before they hit
gtrain.baby Live Times: arrival countdowns per station
Dictum Mac v1.5: FFT audio bands, performance overhaul, onboarding polish
Factory Homepage: Contingency Plan promoted to top with In Review badge
Factory Golden i badge in corner with frosted glass about card
Factory Screenshot Generator: 6 App Store templates (frosted depth, parallax, multi-image) with crop UI
Factory Four new Studio tools: Factory UI Guide, Local Models, Shadow Explorer, Studio Style Guide
Factory Presentation system and tools navigation updates across Studio
Factory Backfilled 216 missing audit log entries and 392 truncated lines in data.ts, raised audit log cap to 2000
Factory Edit mode toggle (O key) with inline field editing across data tables
Factory Unified toast system: ToastProvider with useToast hook, view transitions, progress bar during initial load
Dictum New Pulsar visualization
Dictum Updated Apple Speech engine integration
Dictum Post-processing: custom prompts and presets
Dictum Quick actions to other apps including Reminders
gtrain.baby Launched. Live status and historical uptime.
March 2026
Factory Self-service Studio: inline edit, new entry form, iCloud scanner, verdict-free spark actions
Factory Drag-to-reorder sparks and redo queue: prioritize what gets worked on first
Factory Search (/) becomes navigational: domains, views, tools appear before content
Factory Save to Eagle: save images then archive the spark
Factory Queue and History tabs added to Sparks view: see build queue plus all resolved items with changelog
Factory Sparks and Ideas separated into distinct flows, tools and infrastructure rebuilt
Factory Studio: 18 interactive drawing mediums with material physics (graphite, oil impasto, watercolor, ink wash, alcohol marker)
Factory Studio mediums now render through Sol bridge: graphite, colored pencil, crayon, India ink feed Sol LeWitt engine
Factory Oil Impasto rebuilt as WebGL PBR with normal-mapped lighting and GPU material
Sol LeWitt Canvas ratio selector (9:16, 6:5, 4:3, IMAX), medium-specific draw animations (7 profiles), wall painting animation with spill marks, mobile sheet redesign with action buttons
Sol LeWitt Custom visual controls: SVG icon buttons for directions, shapes, positions, arcs. Weight picker, color dots, inverted theme dots, keyboard shortcuts, view transition animations
Sol LeWitt Control panel redesign: consistent widget types, section spacing, custom drawing picker, mobile bottom sheet refinements
Dictum Started Mac app development with Tauri
Factory Updated site with proximity info overlay and changelog sections
Sol LeWitt Refined drawing mediums: graphite pencil, colored pencil, crayon, India ink, ink wash, acrylic paint
Dictum Settings restructure: Shortcuts/Keyboard in Quick Access, in-app mail, Restore Purchases at bottom, uppercase detail text -1.3.4
Dictum Thicker control borders, history Close button, Clear All moved to bottom, Settings More section -1.3.3
Sol LeWitt 15 new presets, 34 new engines
Dictum Guggenheim Sans typography, glass viz picker with tinted border -1.3.2
Sol LeWitt 4 engines from Art Institute of Chicago: Crayon Fill (#84), Composite ACG (#890), Line Type (#965), Color Combinations (#1176)
Sol LeWitt Reference image overlay for comparing renders to originals
Sol LeWitt Audit finished: cut 142 unsourced presets, added 24 verified. All presets now have museum sources
Sol LeWitt Dark mode, follows OS setting
Dictum Keyboard extension brought back
Factory Standardized Factory UI: OKLCH warm pearl palette, Guggenheim Sans, Plex Mono, Phosphor icons
Dictum Viz picker carousel, stacked modals, editable transcriptions -1.3.1
Dictum iCloud Drive export, transcriptions show up in Files -1.3
Dictum Glass record button, inline viz buttons, Shortcuts setup, transcription post-processing -1.2
Dictum Approved on the App Store
Factory factory.fyi launched
February 2026
Contingency Plan Rebuilt: one screen, voice scripts after fake calls, 9 starter plans
Dictum Swapped Moonshine for WhisperKit (CoreML), new onboarding
Sol LeWitt Started auditing all presets against museum sources
Sol LeWitt Each preset now generates its own LeWitt-style instruction text
Sol LeWitt Mobile: drag-up bottom sheet with collapsed preview
Dictum Renamed to Dictum. New icon (light/dark variants)
Dictum 16 visualizations, Siri shortcut, onboarding, Pro unlock ($1.99) -1.0
Sol LeWitt Shareable links for any preset or custom drawing
Dictum TokBoi becomes NoteToSelf. Dropped keyboard extension, added 5 viz meters
Sol LeWitt Generator goes live with ~300 presets
Sol LeWitt Started building the generator, first engines and preset system
Dictum Built a keyboard extension for system-wide dictation (cut later)
Contingency Plan Started. Fake calls, fake texts, saved escapes, Live Activity.
The Carousel Started. Kodak slide projector for Apple TV: click-clunk, film grain, warm color shift.
Dictum Started as "Birdsong" with Parakeet engine and Shazam-style pulse rings
Factory factory.fyi domain purchased
March 2025
Factory Factory Design LLC incorporated in New York