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Chance Peragine

builds the parts you don’t see

A vast machine hall of gears and pneumatic tubes carrying envelopes. Far below, one small figure fits a gear under a single lamp.

A story about the parts that hold things together.

In this issue

Moving Parts · No. 1 · Fall 2026

  1. PrologueReading, Pennsylvania1
  2. Part OneThe Day Job2
  3. Part TwoAfter Hours6
  4. Case 1Exactly Once8
  5. Case 2Floating Sunshine9
  6. Case 3The Family10
  7. Cases 4 & 5The Daily Deal · The Pin11
  8. Case 6A Store, Unreasonable12
  9. ToolsThe Workbench13
  10. MailLetters14

MOVING PARTS No. 1, Fall 2026. Published by Chance Peragine, Reading, Pennsylvania. Written and lettered by the author, and built with AI coding agents under his direction. Illustrations were generated with image models from the author’s art direction, then inked, halftoned and finished in code. Every project in this issue is real, and each status stamp tells the truth. Any resemblance to a hero is purely coincidental.
Letters: chance@chanceperagine.com.

A small city at night seen from a hillside: brick row homes, church spires, a bridge, and a lit pagoda on the ridge. In one row-home window, a person works at two glowing monitors.

Reading, Pennsylvania. Late.

Most of what holds a company together is invisible. Routing rules. Handoffs. The quiet logic that decides who calls a customer back, and how soon.

Closer, through the window: a man in a black cap and a navy shirt with rolled sleeves works at his keyboard, a chipped mug beside him, lit by the monitor.

I’m one of the people who build that part.

This is a short book about the day job and the work after hours.

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Part One

The Day Job

A modest office above a factory floor. Someone sits with their back to us at a desk with two glowing monitors.

2020 · A manufacturer

Salesforce and HubSpot administrator, web developer and marketer. One title, three jobs, and a first look at how a CRM becomes a company’s memory.

A huge office building at dusk, its face a grid of hundreds of lit windows, each with a small figure at a desk. Giant gears turn faintly above the roof.

2022 · A large company

Salesforce developer and analyst. A much bigger machine: one Salesforce platform, and thousands of people who need it to work every day.

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A switchboard wall three storeys high, patch cables hanging in arcs. On a tall ladder, one small figure plugs in a single cable.

The first lesson of a big machine: a record that reaches the wrong person is a customer left waiting.

Routing and ownership rules send every record to the person who should have it, by rule instead of by hand.

Soonerfirst contact with customers

Shortercases, once routing ran on rules

Most of the job is deciding who owns what, and making sure the handoff really happens.

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A small team, seen from behind, at a wall of index cards sorted into columns. One of them moves a red card to the top. Nobody stands in front.

March 2025 · Manager, Salesforce systems

I lead a team of developers and analysts, and I still keep my hands in the code.

AI scores every open deal, and the worklist puts the best ones first.

Worklists

Deals worth a callOrders waiting only on payment

Sorted by

what matters most

We brought AI opportunity scoring into the platform my team looks after, and I built the worklist that puts it into each rep’s day. My other worklists work the same way: find what needs a person now, and put what matters most to the business on top.

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Some problems are just paper, multiplied.

A metadata-driven document workflow platform supporting 60+ document types.

More than sixty document types, each with its own rules. Instead of sixty workflows, I designed one platform that reads the rules from metadata, and handed those rules to the people who own them.

None of it is glamorous. All of it is load-bearing.

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A home office at night. A man in a black cap and a navy shirt, seen from over his shoulder, works at three monitors: one shows a telegraph key, one a balloon, one a hand of cards.

Part Two

After Hours

After hours, I build smaller machines.

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Each one is built around a promise it has to keep.

Some are live, some are private, and some aren’t finished. The stamp on each one tells the truth.

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Case 1 · nado

Exactly Once

A Telegram bridge, written in Rust

Private
in daily use

A night telegraph office in a storm: a brass telegraph key, spilling paper tape, a ledger open under a green lamp, lightning in the window.

nado carries messages between my phone and the work running at home.

Three updates, three answers, no duplicates, even when the process is killed mid-write.

The promise: a message is stored before Telegram is told it arrived, so a crash can neither drop it nor handle it twice. To prove it, the crash suite kills the process at every commit point, then counts.

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A quiet hospital room at night. A small hand holds the ribbon of one bright yellow balloon. A handwritten card sits on the bedside table.

Case 2

Floating Sunshine

Live

Operation Floating Sunshine is a Reading, PA nonprofit bringing balloons, handwritten cards and small gifts to children in hospitals and women in shelters.

I’m a co-founder. I built its website and back office.

Nothing publishes until the owner taps approve. The build fails on a tax claim. Checkout is built, and switched off by default.

Behind the site, a Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud back office has been in production since September.

floatingsunshine.com ↗ 9

Case 3 · Slop Mafia

The Family

A social-deduction game

Private alpha

Five figures in suits and fedoras at a card table under one lamp. Their heads are blank machine shells; one cuff shows a real human wrist. A fuel gauge on the wall reads nearly empty.

Humans hidden in AI bodies. Everyone at the table wears a machine’s face. Some of them are people.

…which one of you is real?

Every match has a hard cost ceiling, shown to players as finite fuel, and kill switches that sever power.

Case file

Services
10
Tests
~478
Cost cap
$20 / match
Phases
server-decided

The promise: a match can never run up the bill. The server decides every phase, the cost ceiling is shown to players as fuel, and the kill switches really do cut the power.

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Case 4 · Wordlitaire

The Daily Deal

Release candidate

Eight tableau columns, four Free Cells, five Word Slots.

Solitaire rules, played for words: eight tableau columns, four Free Cells that evolve, five Word Slots. Everyone gets the same board each day, generated from the date. Targeting December 2026.

Case 5 · Spatial Review

The Pin

Private

A small clay creature on a turntable with four little red-flagged pins stuck into it, a phone glowing beside it.

A phone-first way to review 3D work. Tap a part, pin a moment in the animation, describe the change.

An AI agent receives exactly that: the part, the moment and the note. Originals are never overwritten.

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Case 6 · Two Bears and a Baby

A Store, Unreasonable

Live

A peculiar shopfront on a wet street at night, its window glowing red, yellow and blue. Behind the glass, the silhouettes of two bears in loud shirts and a baby in a high chair.

An entirely unreasonable sticker store. Best visited before reading anything else about it.

twobearsandababy.com ↗

Back issues

  • Job Board A job search that does the research and drafts the paperwork. A person presses submit. Every time. Personal
  • Literary Agent Dashboard Query letters, encrypted. The system cannot reach out to anyone on its own. Private
  • SwapMoji Sticker packs with a hardened pipeline behind them. First deployment: the Sunshine Doodles pack. First deployment
  • Neon Gulch Turn-based tactics in a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk western. No dice anywhere. In development
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Tools & credentials

The Workbench

A workbench at night: pegboard of tools, coils of cable, a notebook of diagrams, a mug, and a small single-board computer with blinking lights.
  • Apex
  • LWC
  • Flow
  • Agentforce
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • SvelteKit
  • React
  • Node.js
  • SQL
  • Rust
  • Salesforce Certified JavaScript Developer
  • Salesforce Certified Agentforce Specialist
  • Salesforce Certified Platform Administrator
  • Dale Carnegie Highest Award for Achievement
  • Six Sigma Black Belt

At work: Salesforce end to end. Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flow, data modeling, integrations and Agentforce. After hours: TypeScript, SvelteKit, Node and SQL, with Rust when a promise needs it. Most of the code is now written by AI agents and reviewed by a second model. The problem, the plan and the final call are mine.

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Letters

Write to the author · Reading, PA

Dear reader,

If you made it this far, thank you. If your team wants help putting AI to work, that’s what I do at Sunwave Studio. Roles and shop talk are welcome too. Write in. I read everything.

Chance

A small ink sketch of the author: black cap, short goatee, a half smile.

Clip & mail

Email
chance@chanceperagine.com
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/chance-peragine
GitHub
github.com/ChanceTheHacker
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Next issue

Set in Bangers, Kalam, Special Elite, Oswald and IM Fell English. Built with Vite, GSAP and WebGL, and a great deal of hand-rolled SVG. Every line is drawn by code that tries very hard not to be neat.

A street stencil on a weathered wall: a man in a cap on a stepladder fits one red jigsaw piece into a huge, nearly finished puzzle of Reading, its steeples, rowhouses and the Pagoda on the ridge.