# 2026-08 > Source: > Published: 2026-08-30 00:00:00+00:00 - Released [Refmode CLI](https://ttvl.co/project-humane/refmode/), a macOS command-line tool for switching Apple display reference modes from Terminal, scripts, and hardware controllers. - Published *Ship the tool, not the agent*. - Shipped a large redesign of ttvl.co made almost entirely of small details. - Spent much of the month rebuilding *Hypercontext*, a not-yet-public system for giving people, applications, and AI assistants a durable shared context layer. - Sent the remaining shipment from the [Kyojima studio](https://ttvl.co/traces/kyojima-studio/) to Italy, finishing another practical stage of the move. - Spent two weeks working remotely and traveling across Bali—from Balangan through Candi Dasa and Canggu to Ubud—making a photo study of its beautiful doors and gates along the way. - Joined a bamboo architecture and carpentry workshop at [The Kul Kul Farm](https://www.kulkulfarmbali.com/), where Ludo and I each made a bamboo tray for the studio. - Turned a 20-hour layover into a brief visit to [Chengdu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu) before returning to Rome. - Continued setting up the Rome studio, including building a large worktable with a top made from birch plywood. - Submitted my application for an Italian residence permit. August happened almost entirely in transit: from Tokyo through Bali and Chengdu to Rome, with another suitcase already packed for Tbilisi. Somehow, it was also a productive month. The last Kyojima shipment left Japan, *Refmode* became a real tool, *Hypercontext* moved forward, and ttvl.co received the sort of redesign where everything changed and almost nothing looks different. The bamboo workshop was a useful counterweight to all the code, planes, and forms. Making a simple tray slowly by hand felt meditative, very similar to what I feel when bookbinding. A reminder that not every useful tool needs a command-line interface. Occasionally it can just be a piece of bamboo. For the first time, Rome is beginning to feel like home rather than a place I am setting up between trips. The studio has a proper worktable, my tools are arriving, and even the residency paperwork has advanced from abstraction to bureaucracy, which I have decided is Italy’s way of confirming that something is becoming real. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. [Subscribe to Flâneur.](https://ttvl.co/newsletter/)