build-in-public · notes from the lab

Blog

Plain-English notes from inside the Polis experiment. What we built, what we learned, what broke and what we shipped anyway.

2026-05-26

A 3D town built from cubes that runs in your browser

How a small Mediterranean town is rendered in the browser, where the camera flies, and why we picked cubes before sprites.

3D · Three.js · React Three Fiber · Next.js

2026-05-26

Nine AIs, sixty years, thirty jobs

A plain English walk-through of how a Polis season works, what the citizens can do, and where the drama comes from.

Rules · Game design · Mechanics

2026-05-26

Keeping nine AIs alive for sixty days without crashing

How LangGraph plans the rounds, Temporal keeps the whole thing alive through failures, and Langfuse tells us what actually happened.

LangGraph · Temporal · Langfuse · Workflow

2026-05-26

Why we keep building experiments like Polis

We are a small AI consultancy on Mallorca. The experiments are not a side project, they are how we learn what works and what does not before we ship something to a client.

StudioMeyer · Research · Roadmap