The site is up, and there is a wish on it already

I’m Mate Visky. I live in Brisbane, I’m getting on a bit, and I like helping people get on with their computers. This is where I do that in public.

Updates land here from now on — dated, short, and in one place you can subscribe to with the RSS feed. No algorithm, no account, no platform that can change the rules on a Tuesday.

What this is

You tell me the thing you wish your computer did — the five-minute annoyance you have had for three years. I sit down with my AI mate and build it, mess included. Then I hand you the exact words I used, so you can do the next one without me.

It is not a course. There is no syllabus, no levels, nothing to enrol in and no certificate at the end. Teaching here means showing you how a thing was actually done and giving you the prompt that did it. You take the words and go.

And yes — the name is my own name with a bend in it. Mate Visky, Mate Wish Key. I know. I like it.

What’s here on day one

Put the genie in the box — the first project, and the one everything else assumes. It gets an AI agent running on your own computer, logged in, able to read your files, and set up so it talks to you like a person rather than a developer. If you only do one thing here, do that one.

The words — every term I catch myself using, each in a sentence you could repeat to someone else without getting it wrong.

The mark is a key, and also an M and a K

Three kinds of stroke and nothing else: a /, a \ and a |. Read them along the top and they are the cut of a key. Read them as letters and the vertical is the stroke a capital M closes on and the stroke a capital K stands on — drawn once, an M and a K sharing a stem.

The two angles in it are not the same, and that is the part that took the longest to get right. Give the leg the same lean as the teeth and it just becomes another tooth: the eye reads one long zigzag and the K vanishes. Thirteen degrees against twenty-six is what keeps them apart.

The red block behind it has a deliberately rough edge. That is the wish itself: vague and fraying until someone sits down and builds it. The rest of the set, and the reasoning, is on the brand kit.

What’s not here yet

A regular slot. It goes up when it is real rather than when it would look good on a page — a published time that turns out to be wrong is worse than no time at all.

More wishes, which is the bit you can help with. If there is a small thing you wish your computer did, send it to me and I will have a go at it.

One wish. A few key strokes. Your mates deliver.