About this website

Showingwork.com is a public lab.

This is where I build systems and document their effects, in motion, code, and thought, making the path visible as they evolve. The focus is not on finished results, but on how ideas are formed, tested, broken, and rebuilt.

Most portfolios "black box" the process, showing only the result. I act as the spokesperson for the hidden network, documenting the messy translations between code, tools, and logic that make the outcome possible.

Most work here grows from small experiments: procedural motion in Blender, Geometry Nodes driven by data, Python tools, and controlled uses of AI. I write short, uneven posts after finishing these experiments, capturing decisions, mistakes, and constraints while they’re still fresh. Like showing your steps in a mathematics exam, the value lies in the trace.

Documenting learning this way turns experience into infrastructure. When the process is visible, it becomes reusable, repeatable, and improvable. Systems start to form. Mental load drops. Work can be returned to, extended, or handed off without starting from zero.

At a deeper level, this site is about agency.

Agency means increasing my ability to choose what I work on, how I work, and why. Building systems, rather than performing tasks, is how that agency is made concrete. Writing here is part of the system, a way to externalize thinking and keep it under my control.

Beauty is inseparable from that choice.

Not beauty as polish or decoration, but as a value: clarity, care, ethical tools, open systems, and resistance to structures that quietly diminish agency. Beauty, in this sense, is what remains when unnecessary force, noise, and coercion are stripped away.

This site is not about perfection, optimization, or speed. It is about taking small steps, making them visible, and letting systems, and skill, compound over time.

This is me showing my work.

— Mikko Karaiste