pele-animate, Step-by-Step Mermaid Diagrams with Icons
An open-source add-on for the Pele diagram renderer that turns Mermaid code into diagrams readers can step through in the order you choose, with icons on the nodes.
Daniel Kim
Exploring how AI organizes knowledge, automates busywork, and creates documentation machines can read.
$ cat focus.md
- AI Knowledge Management
- Automation
- AI-Ready Technical Docs
What I'm working on
DoveRunner Lab, an Onboarding Site for Security Products
A public developer site where customers and DoveRunner's own teams see content protection working — a reference player with a live DRM/watermark inspector, plus short tutorial courses — built with Claude Code and live at lab.doverunner.com.
Tutorial Videos as Code with HyperFrames and Claude
Rebuilding DoveRunner's product tutorial videos as code — HyperFrames compositions, real Console captures, synthesized narration and captions, written and maintained with Claude — so a UI or docs change means a re-render, not a re-shoot.
How this blog gets written
$ ./ingest.sh | tee wiki.log
Every post here starts as a private note, not a blank page. This is the pipeline that turns what I read into what I publish.
- 01IngestArticles, docs, and notes come in — tagged, checked for duplicates, logged.
- 02Private WikiSources build a cross-linked knowledge base that keeps growing over time.
- 03Story ScoutingA synthesis, milestone, or hard-won lesson gets flagged as a post idea.
- 04Draft → Review → PublishWritten in my voice, passed through editorial review, then published here.
Everything upstream stays private. Only finished, reviewed writing becomes a post.
Latest writing
Adding a Newsletter to My Blog on Kit's Free Plan
My blog only had an RSS feed, so I added email subscription with Kit's free plan. Here's why I picked Kit, what caused the confirmation emails to land in spam and how I fixed it, what the free plan blocks, and how a Cloudflare Worker uses the Kit API to draft a broadcast for every new post.
Replacing Mermaid With Pele So Our Docs Diagrams Stay Readable on Phones
Mermaid shrank our docs diagrams to fit narrow screens until the text was unreadable. I had Claude Code vet Pele as a replacement, then moved all 84 diagrams over and fixed the dark-mode colors in CSS.
Adding a Lightweight Local Search to a 2-Million-Word Wiki
My wiki's raw sources passed 2 million words, and reading whole index files started to break down. Here is how I built hybrid search on SQLite and static embeddings after ruling out a heavier tool, and how I got agents to use it without being told the command.
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