Open Collective Digital Studio / Hamburg

shiftbloomstudio.

We make public tools, creative research, and careful digital systems. Open by default, a little informal, and based in Hamburg.

Current researchRepositories
Creative research

Questions become public experiments.

Shiftbloom works between open-source software, critical technology, and visual practice. We prototype to understand a subject, then publish what might be useful to others.

A moving fact-core centered among changing contextual dimensions
context field / projected view
context → transport → fact-core
Independent preprintV1.0 / 2026

Generalized HKR Theory

Facts as dynamically centered states.

A research program for contextually manifest reality, connecting ontology, geometry, information, and computation.

Current research / document status
01Ontology / geometry

Open-dimensional context

Treating every contextually effective influence as a possible dimension, rather than fixing the field in advance.

02Holonomy / drift

Facts in motion

Modeling a fact-core as the changing center of transported local manifestations across context and time.

03Research program

Claim-field validation

Turning the theory into testable claim histories with context lattices, redundancy, ablations, and replication.

Earlier experiments included an OpenAI privacy-filter sandbox. The project has ended and remains part of the studio record rather than an active release.

Open Source

Code, built in
the open.

Repositories from the studio: developer tools, research scaffolds, interface experiments, and ideas that are better when other people can inspect them.

01State, kept in tune.

symphony-state

A small state orchestration library for syncing server, client, and local sources without turning everything into one global store.

ReactTypeScriptState
Source
symphony.ts
const auth = defineSection({
  key: "auth",
  source: createAtomAdapter({
    userId: null
  }),
});
0
state drift
SB-01
02Claims, checked in public.

open-hallucination-index

A research scaffold for decomposing model output into claims, retrieving evidence, and making verification easier to inspect.

PythonAI SafetyFastAPI
Source
Verification Pipeline
LIVE
Decomposetext → atomic claims
RetrieveNeo4j + Qdrant + MCP
Verifyevidence → oracle
Scoretrust 0.0 → 1.0
Trust Score
0.94/ 1.0
SB-02
03Time-aware theming.

circadian-ui

A theming experiment that lets interfaces respond to dawn, day, dusk, and night while keeping accessibility in view.

ReactTailwindA11y
Source
06:00
--cui-bgDawn
09:00
--cui-fgDay
18:00
--cui-mutedDusk
22:00
--cui-cardNight
<CircadianScript />
<CircadianProvider><App /></CircadianProvider>
SB-03
04Capability-first loading.

birthday-cake-loading

A progressive enhancement pattern for upgrading interface layers only when the device and connection have room for it.

ReactNext.jsPerformance
Source
Capability Tierruntime
ultraFull animations + rich media
richMotion + lazy upgrades
liteReduced motion + core UI
baseStatic fallback only
Signals
CPU
RAM
Net
<CakeLayer minTier="rich" />
SB-04
The Studio

Open collective, digital work, Hamburg.

Shiftbloom Studio is where open-source projects, creative research, and public-interest interfaces sit at the same table. No grand agency performance, just work we can point to.

01

Open by default

Source code, process notes, and experiments are meant to be inspectable. The work should be useful even when nobody is buying anything.

02

Small things, carefully

We like focused tools, visual systems, research prototypes, and interfaces that do one thing with a bit of taste.

03

Studio, not storefront

Shiftbloom is a place for public digital work from Hamburg: part lab, part archive, part collective practice.

Open sourceVisual studiesPublic toolsHamburg based