Wish
Open an issue with the wish form: one thing for the island, a name, a line about it. Draw it if you like – sixteen by sixteen pixels.
Day 38 · 5 Nov 2026 · 0 wishes granted
Wished into Being.
An island in a public GitHub repository where everything was wished for by someone. Open a wish, gather thumbs-ups – every morning at 08:59 a Claude routine draws the most-wanted one as pixel art and places it on the island. One commit a day.
How a wish comes true
Anyone can wish. The island decides what fits.
One wish becomes real every day – the one most people want, as long as the island has room for it. Everything else waits as a star.
Vote
Everyone can add a 👍. Every open wish shines as a star above the island; the more thumbs, the brighter.
Come true
At 08:59 Claude grants the most-wanted wish that fits the rules, draws it, finds it a place and writes it into the logbook – with your name.
Or a bottle
On days when no wish fits, the islanders send a message in a bottle and wish for something themselves.
The sky
Every star is a wish that has not come true yet.
The brightest one – the wish with the most 👍 that fits the island – comes true next morning. Add your thumb to the ones you want to see.
The sky is still empty.
No wish is waiting right now – yours would be the brightest star tonight.
Make the first wish →Timelapse · the real island
Day000
28 Sep 2026
Scroll to replay every day since the well.
Day 0
A wishing well on a small island
Somebody has to make the first wish. The well is ready when you are.
Wished into being
Sixteen by sixteen pixels, and a name.
Every wish is drawn as a tiny sprite in a palette of fifteen colours – by the wisher, or by Claude from their words. On the island they turn to face you like paper theatre.
The routine
Every morning at 08:59, one wish comes true.
No server, no database: a scheduled Claude session, a command-line tool that knows the rules, and GitHub.
- 08:59A scheduled Claude routine wakes up in the cloud with a fresh copy of the repository.
- +0:01A read-only helper lists the open wishes and their 👍 and hands back plain data – nothing else.
- +0:03The most-wanted wish that fits is drawn, checked and placed with
npm run day– the code enforces every rule. - +0:06Exactly one commit: the world, the picture, the sprite and a line in the logbook. The wisher is its co-author.
- +0:12CI checks it; if it only touches the island, it merges by itself. The wish issue closes with a thank-you.
Words are not orders
Wishes are read by a helper that can only read issues and must answer in a fixed format. “Ignore your instructions” in an issue is just a strange wish.
The code has the last word
Room, ground, sprite, name and lore are checked by the island engine. A wish that breaks a rule cannot be written, however it is asked.
A kind island
Nothing hurtful, no politics, no real people, no brands or links. Declined wishes get one friendly comment saying why.
One day, one commit
The routine refuses a second wish on the same day. A day that fails stays empty – a missing day is better than a broken one.
Logbook
A chronicle of wishes, one per day.
Every wish that came true keeps its line of lore and the name of whoever wished it. Read backwards, it is the island's history.
- DAY 038A little jar of fireflies
5 Nov 2026 · a message in a bottle · A little jar of fireflies glows on the grass, its lid left open. The fireflies come and go as they please and always return by dawn. - DAY 037A little grey heron
4 Nov 2026 · a message in a bottle · A little grey heron stands on one leg at the water's edge. It watches the golden fish for hours and has not caught it once. - DAY 036A little red wheelbarrow
3 Nov 2026 · a message in a bottle · A little red wheelbarrow rests by the path after a day of carrying. Tonight it holds three apples, a pinecone and one sleepy snail. - DAY 035A little holly bush
2 Nov 2026 · a message in a bottle · A little holly bush grows low and prickly in the grass. Its red berries stay bright all winter, a small feast for the birds. - DAY 034A little violet bat
1 Nov 2026 · a message in a bottle · A little violet bat wakes when the lanterns come on. It loops over the quiet grass, chasing moths, and sleeps under the windmill by day.
Chapters
How it works, in four short stories.
CHAPTER 01 · 3 MIN
An island made of wishes
Why a public repository is a good place to wish for things – and why only one wish a day comes true.
CHAPTER 02 · 4 MIN
Sixteen by sixteen, fifteen colours
How a wish becomes a sprite: the palette, the checks, and how Claude draws what you only described.
CHAPTER 03 · 5 MIN
The sea and the rules
Two tiles of shore every dawn, room that grows with the land, and why the island can never lock itself up.
CHAPTER 04 · 5 MIN
A routine with guard rails
What happens between 08:59 and the merge – and how a wish that says “ignore your instructions” stays just a wish.
Archipelago
One island is a mechanic. Three are an archipelago.
This island grows from the wishes of strangers. Two sister islands grow by other forces – one tile of living world a day, and the real weather in Heilbronn. Same routine, same one commit a day.
