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Thoughts & ideas from a Lighting Designer building AI visual tools for the community. | https://pckt.blog/b/bloqdigital | Website - http://bloqdigital.co.uk

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Off-Topics by BloqdigitalAug 8, 2026

Presenting DUSK to AI Peers

I had the opportunity to present my little journey with DUSK and where I am now at the CR3W meetup last week to a room of AI builders, software developers and people with ideas like myself, and I was more apprehensive than when I've shown it to anyone else! Would they see right through me as a non-coder? Would they mock the UI? Would they question the route id taken? Would they take it seriously? In reality, it went really well. People offered helpful feedback, asked questions that lead to more ...

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Off-Topics by BloqdigitalJul 25, 2026

RAY of Sunshine

RAY is a good boy...

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Off-Topics by BloqdigitalJul 17, 2026

The Orange Scribble Problem

I’ve been rebuilding DUSK as a local-first application. DUSK is my attempt to make a practical lighting visualisation tool using generative AI. You upload an image, select an area and describe a lighting treatment: uplight the columns, wash the ceiling, turn the scene into night, add concealed light beneath a bench. The original version relied heavily on Google Gemini. That was useful for getting a prototype working quickly, especially as I am a lighting designer who has somehow wandered into so...

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Off-Topics by BloqdigitalJul 17, 2026

Embrace Discomfort

Sometimes, its worth taking risks

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Off-Topics by BloqdigitalJul 8, 2026

Lighting designer, digital artist, and writer based in the UK. Associate Designer at INTO Lighting by day, crafting architectural lighting experiences across hospitality, leisure, retail and workplace. By night, creating AI digital art exhibited from Times Square to Tokyo. Building DUSK, an AI-powered lighting visualisation tool. Also wrote a children's book for my daughter that became a real published adventure.

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Off-Topics by BloqdigitalJul 8, 2026

Journaling in the age of Articlemaxxing

Or How I miss the innocent days of Livejournal.. When did writing online become driven by farming success course-slop? Why does everyone want to help me grow, so long as I sign up to an online program or join a paid membership tier? Why does Substack's notes feed look and read with exactly the same level of engagement farming as Crypto Twitter did during the NFT and meme coin heydays?

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