Studio Schade
BUILDS · BAKES · BOOKS
An independent studio for builds, bakes, and books — software and games, real bread, and stories from historical nonfiction to science fiction. Made by Allen Schade.
Books
The author
The Newsletter
Substack · Essays by Allen
Toil & Craft
Essays on the work that fills you, and the tools that don't. AI and software, the novels, and real bread from the farmers market, tied together by one question: does a tool take away toil, or take away craft?
Read the latest →Builds
Software, tools, and games — a hacker-strategy card game, and Dark Nebulae Online, a free space-combat game you can play today. See the builds →
Bakes
Real bread, made the slow way on purpose — long fermentation, live sourdough, stone-ground local grain, from Powell Artisan Bakery.
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New books, game releases, essays, and real bread — about once a month in Toil & Craft. No spam.