Today I stumbled across a BluSup tool I had nearly forgotten existed.
It is called Existing Image Reuse, and it searches the images already inside BluSup so I can find and reuse a photograph instead of uploading another copy.
It is a beautiful piece of code.
Finding it made me wonder: What other useful things have we built that I have forgotten about?
That simple question led to two new additions to BluSup.
Rediscover BluSup
The first addition is private and just for me.
When I am signed into Master Control, BluSup now presents a featured tool that I may not have used—or even thought about—in a while.
It tells me what the tool does, why we created it, and when I might find it useful. I can open the real protected tool or press Show Me Another and continue exploring.
There are now dozens of specialized tools behind BluSup. Some work with photographs. Some help manage stories, sounds, destinations, security, research, maps, and the many websites that have grown around the main system.
Rediscover BluSup gives those creations another chance to be seen and used.
Inside BluSup
The second addition is public, and this is the one I especially want to share with you.
It is called Inside BluSup.
You can visit it here:
Inside BluSup is a hands-on gallery showing some of the thought and craftsmanship behind the website.
You can search a demonstration image collection, write a temporary photo story, preview the messages BluSup displays while opening a destination, search a miniature map of the system, and experiment with BluSup-style transition sounds.
These are not screenshots pretending to be programs. They really work.
But they work safely.
The demonstrations use purpose-made sample material. They cannot open my private records, change the real website, upload anything, or save what a visitor enters. Everything happens temporarily inside the browser and disappears when the page is closed or reloaded.
I think of it as the BluSup workshop behind glass.
You can handle the demonstrations, try the ideas, and see some of the machinery working—but the real controls remain protected.
More Than a Website
BluSup began as my personal place on the internet, but it has become much more than a collection of pages and links.
It is now a living system of stories, photographs, memories, local guides, private tools, public projects, experiments, and carefully connected pieces of code.
Much of it was created one practical need at a time.
I needed a better way to manage photographs, so we built one.
I needed a way to find my own tools, so we built one.
I wanted visitors to see what was happening behind the visible pages without giving them access to anything private, so we built that too.
That is how BluSup continues to grow—not according to some grand corporate plan, but through curiosity, usefulness, imagination, and the occasional discovery of something wonderful I had forgotten was already there.
Come take a look inside.
The controls are safe, the demonstrations are ready, and nothing you try will break a thing.
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