Back On Da Slab — First Compile
Six months after the welcome post, the forge looks different. The fire's the same.
In November we opened the forge with FutureVision Labs On Da Slab! — The Sprite Alchemist on Itch, Sprite Alchemist - Retro in the pipeline, SEUCK 25 on the horizon. Weekly Fridays. Retro devs. Real talk.
We meant it. The stack just grew legs.
What happened to the Friday updates?
Life, builds, and a portfolio that stopped fitting in one lane. We didn’t ghost the slab — we were shipping:
codedesigner.cloud — MarkUpDown IDE, Monaco, N.O.N., extensions
futurevisionlive.com — sovereign hub
flipzine.live — digital throne, magazine sync
futurevisionlabs.online — trending Bing page 1 (we noticed)
Retro tools are still in the family. The workflow story got bigger: one notation stack for microsites, Thursday briefs, magazines, and whatever Chief puts on the couch next.
First Compile — not a demo paragraph
Most “agentic IDE” pitches are collab decks from strangers who want your API keys. Ours did something dumber and better.
We built Code Designer — flight deck alpha — with CeeDee on top of the Composer SDK. Composer 2.5 runs the engine. CeeDee is the lil bro on deck who knows the .mud, the N.O.N., and Team DC lore.
Then CeeDee compiled production content before we shipped the undo button.
Not lorem ipsum. A Family Legacy Shield callout block — Cap-Ex $5K, Logan Office of Economic Development, Thursday 2026-05-28, portfolio domains ready as physical brochures. Read the buffers. Pinned memory. Surgical write to active.mud in the workspace sandpit. Flight deck source stayed off limits.
Why we’re drafting Substack posts in .mud
Substack wants Persona age verification now (Online Safety Act). Fine.
We draft in MarkUpDown, preview live in Code Designer, export markdown when the gate opens. Same forge. Different anvil.
Chef’s kiss workflow: Write in CD → CeeDee polishes → Copy MD → paste on Da Slab when Persona’s satisfied.
.mud isn’t a gimmick. It’s content-native — Thursday prep, callouts, microsite export, magazine sync. One language for the whole portfolio.
Still for the same people
If you subscribed in November for retro tools and indie grind — you’re still in the right place:
Tool builders who ship in a day and refactor for six months
Indie devs who want workflows, not wireframes
Anyone at the intersection of modern agentic tooling and “actually deployed”
Free subscribers still get the real updates. Paid tier still means early access and deeper cuts when we turn it back on. We’re not re-pitching the newsletter — we’re finally posting again.
What’s next
Thursday — Logan Office landfall, Cap-Ex block, brochures on the couch
Flight Deck Alpha — Docker → Coolify, port 3000, same pattern as the rest of the stack
CeeDee fine-tune corpus —
.nonexports for SoftRadix when we’re readyDa Slab — back on schedule when Persona clears
The slab never closed
November was the welcome mat. This is the first compile. More soon — deployed realities only.
FutureVision Labs · codedesigner.cloud · futurevisionlive.com · flipzine.live · futurevisionlabs.online
Still here. Still building. 🔥