Kelly Lucas Say hello

Hello, I’m Kelly.

I’m the founder of HelioFlux (opens in a new tab), where we read the light your cells emit to catch cancer early. On the side I build software for myself, and I use it every day.

Meet Magpie All ten projects
Magpie goes first. My web clipper and private library. Built for one, in use every day.
A drawing of the three granite towers of Torres del Paine, pink in the morning light, above a glacial lake.
Torres del Paine, Patagonia

Magpie, my web clipper and private library.

It’s the tool I open most, and it files everything I find into two nests at once.

In use since February 2026Built for one

  • Clip

    Press the feather, or Alt Shift M, on any page. Add tags and a note.

  • Two nests at once

    A full Markdown note lands in my Obsidian vault, and a card lands in a searchable gallery. Clip it again and it updates instead of duplicating.

  • Find it again

    A searchable gallery and a galaxy map of everything I’ve clipped. Design clips sort themselves onto the public design desk.

A drawing of a magpie in flight with a shiny coral bead in its beak.

279

clips from 258 sites. 31 carry my own notes, 10 are papers and 8 are videos with transcripts, filed under 257 tags. Counted Aug 19, 2026.

Private

The library sits behind a password. You can’t install Magpie; it’s built for exactly one person.

Magpie’s full story Open my library

Ten things I’ve made, Magpie first.

Every line opens the real thing.

  1. 01 MagpieA web clipper and private library. One click, two nests. ToolIn use
  2. 02 Design deskA public swipe file for UI, sorted into five piles by Magpie. LibraryLive
  3. 03 HelioFlux website (opens in a new tab)The website for my company. SiteLive
  4. 04 Clue d’État (opens in a new tab)Game-night trivia hosted by Napoleon, with 6,600+ original clues. GameLive
  5. 05 AI Workspace Field Guide (opens in a new tab)A calm map of my AI tools, skills, memory and handoffs. GuideLive
  6. 06 Pretzel Protocol (opens in a new tab)An atlas for a family trip to Berlin, Munich and Prague, with my drawings. SiteLive
  7. 07 Heliopolis art libraryMy drawings, the redraws, and the style catalog. LibraryLive
  8. 08 Agent Commons (opens in a new tab)A shared desk where my AI agents post work and wait on me. ToolPrivate, sign-in
  9. 09 YouTube Transcript Generator (opens in a new tab)A link in, clean Markdown out. ToolLive
  10. 10 Boot CampA one-button side-scroller with flying pigs, playtested by a bot army. GameLive

Places, drawn in my Heliopolis style.

Fine navy pen and flat color, made with an image model in my style and recolored to match this site. Torres del Paine, in Patagonia, goes first.

The whole art library
  1. A drawing of the three granite towers of Torres del Paine, pink in the morning light, above a glacial lake.
    Torres del Paine, Patagonia
  2. A drawing of Kirkjufell, the cone-shaped mountain, above a stepped waterfall.
    Kirkjufell, Iceland
  3. A drawing of white Santorini houses stepping down a cliff, a church with a navy dome, and coral bougainvillea.
    Santorini, Greece
  4. A drawing of Brunelleschi’s coral dome beside Giotto’s bell tower, above tiled roofs and a cypress.
    Florence, Italy
  5. A drawing of the Colosseum beside a Roman umbrella pine.
    Rome, Italy
  6. A drawing of the Parthenon on the Acropolis rock, with an olive tree in front.
    Athens, Greece
  7. A drawing of a mosque with teal domes and four minarets across the Bosphorus, with a small ferry.
    Istanbul, Türkiye
  8. A drawing of Edinburgh Castle on its rock, with a small coral flag.
    Edinburgh, Scotland
  9. A drawing of Nyhavn harbor: tall painted townhouses along the canal and a coral sailboat.
    Nyhavn, Copenhagen

Next door: the playground and the log.

Playground

The toy rooms live next door, so this page can stay serious-ish: a pixel garden, the pet, the panel, the noise room, the quantum wing, the entropy tap, spark notes and the audition room.

Go play

Log

What changed on this site, and when. The latest three:

  1. The lab grew up.
  2. The design desk got five piles.
  3. The design desk opened.
The full log

Say hello

Questions, ideas, a project you think I’d like. My inbox is open.

hello@kellylucas.dev