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Memory Archive.

A room I keep returning to - built so I have somewhere to put the things I love.
Published
Jan · 2026
Last updated
Stack
next.js · mui · tailwind
Status
shipping
¶ Overview

I had a tumblr, a Notion, a half-finished Astro thing in a folder called "maybe". None of them felt like a place. I wanted somewhere with rooms - a record player here, a wall of postcards there, a desk for the things I'm making. Less feed, more apartment.

The wrong way first

Spent a week on a moodboard before writing any code, which I always pretend I won't do. Newsreader for the body. A paper background I sampled off a 1972 Penguin paperback. The accent color changed every other day until I gave up and made it a knob.

First post

Wrote about reading more in small apartments. It took two evenings, mostly because I kept reading what I'd written and finding it embarrassing. Hit publish anyway. Refreshed the homepage maybe forty times to look at the date stamp.

What it became

Not a portfolio, not a blog, not really a journal - something between all three. The thing I keep coming back to is the section dividers. Tiny monospace labels. SECTION A - PROJECTS. They make it feel filed, which is what I wanted.

By the numbers
44
entries
12
drafts
4
months
Where to find it
live
lucygai.com ->
source
github/lucy/archive ->