Archive - Digital Craft Workshop

Month Three: I Measured the Engine I Was Feeding

135 subscribers, a notes engine I caught converting at 0.13%, and a reel kit that finally has a launch date.

Jul 4 • Daniel (Dig. Craft Workshop)

Four Excuses Between You and Your First Reel

Camera, editing, cost, cringe. None of them held.

Jul 2 • Daniel (Dig. Craft Workshop)

June 2026

$0 AI Reels on a 12GB GPU

Wan 2.2 + Lightning LoRA dropped my per-scene render from 50 minutes to 5:37 — here's the swap.

Jun 22 • Daniel (Dig. Craft Workshop)

Same 26 Views. One Reached 3× More Strangers.

I posted the same idea as text and as video. Only one of them left my bubble.

Jun 18 • Daniel (Dig. Craft Workshop)

Ken Burns Is the Cheapest Motion in My Reels

Three flat SVG layers, one FFmpeg zoom, and no AI video in sight.

Jun 15 • Daniel (Dig. Craft Workshop)

Captions That Read Along, One Word at a Time

ASS karaoke, a fixed mobile anchor, and the one-line bug that highlighted the wrong word.

Jun 8 • Daniel (Dig. Craft Workshop)

Why I Shipped the Free TTS I Don't Use

ElevenLabs sounds better. Kokoro ships better. The default isn't always the one you'd pick.

Jun 4 • Daniel (Dig. Craft Workshop)

My second month with Substack. I Stopped Pushing the Tools.

74 subscribers, 118 notes, a reel pipeline you can install in one line — and the SaaS apps I quietly stop develop more.

Jun 1 • Daniel (Dig. Craft Workshop)

May 2026

Teaching Haiku to Write a Screenplay

How one Claude Haiku call turns an article into a 3–5 scene JSON script — and why that file, not the GPU, runs the whole machine.

May 26 • Daniel (Dig. Craft Workshop)

My Article-to-Reel Pipeline in One Diagram

One published article in, one 9:16 MP4 out, and the five stages that decide everything between.

May 21 • Daniel (Dig. Craft Workshop)

I Taught My Articles to Make Their Own Reels

Six posts on the pipeline I built — voice, captions, motion, GPU, and the button that wires it together.

May 15 • Daniel (Dig. Craft Workshop)

The $2 Bill That Made Me Self-Host My Memory

How I unified Claude Code, Cowork, and claude.ai into one shared brain — and the OAuth detour I didn't see coming.

May 13 • Daniel (Dig. Craft Workshop)

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