Letting the digital stamps live on the web

This morning started with picking up my permanent residency card. After that, it was a fairly regular workday, nothing special on the surface, but mentally it felt like a shift.

In the evening, I finally gave up on my no-computer days. While still waiting for Apple’s diagnostic results, I created a temporary profile on one of the team’s personal machines just to regain some speed and freedom.

If you know me personally, you know this already:
I can live without my phone.
But not without a computer.

As soon as I had access again, I pulled a few small projects and ran them locally. Just that simple act, seeing things boot up, opening a terminal, touching the code was enough to unlock some inspiration.

That’s when Stampie Stamps came back into focus.

I started thinking about serving the passport stamp illustrations I originally generated during Shipaton directly on the web. The stamps are genuinely beautiful, and even if the project stays small, I like the idea of letting them exist quietly online with their detail pages with some metadata and map, building a bit of SEO foundation, letting them find their place organically, without pressure.

That’s pretty much the pattern behind all my small ideas:

• low expectations
• small surface area
• real care
• time to breathe

Just putting things into the world and letting them grow at their own pace.