Charles Tay

Type its UEN or name to see its public ACRA record (status, age, what it says it does), the sector it sits in, that sector's hiring and training figures from the Pulse and the Landscape, what the public record can't tell you, and questions worth asking. The lookup runs in your browser against data.gov.sg; nothing is stored. Unofficial; ACRA is the official source.

Pick a sector to see job vacancies and retrenchments, how many PMETs were let go against PMET roles still open, and the career-switch (SCTP) courses the polytechnics and ITE run for it, with links to the skills and courses to train for. Built from MOM open data and public course pages; no login needed. Unofficial; MOM is the official source.

For each sector, see how many SkillsFuture-listed courses exist next to the PMET roles still open, who runs them, how long and how costly they are, how many are about AI, and which classes start in the coming months. Built from MySkillsFuture open data; no login needed. Unofficial; MySkillsFuture is the official source.

For people who work outdoors, in construction, delivery, cleaning, landscaping or security. NEA's heat-stress reading for the station nearest where you work, turned into MOM's rest and water guidance, with a one-tap WhatsApp message to your supervisor, water and rest-break reminders, a heat-illness check and today's heat chart. Settings stay on your phone. Unofficial; MOM and NEA are the official sources.

NEA's 1-hour PM2.5 sits next to the US AQI for each region, with wind, the 2-hour rain forecast, haze news, A&E links and a GP finder by postal code. Unofficial; NEA is the official source.

Why three copies? The same page runs in three places, each for a reason.

• GitHub Pages: the main copy. Free, static, and opens on almost any network.
• Cloudflare Pages ↗: adds what a static page can't do: live A&E waiting times and a wider news search, fetched by a small server. Some office networks block pages.dev, so use the GitHub copy there.
• Manus ↗: an experiment. I asked the Manus AI agent to rebuild the page from the public code, to see how close it gets on its own. It adds Manus's own visitor analytics, and it may go offline.

DOE Malaysia's hourly API for each Johor station on a map, with wind arrows, satellite fire hotspots, a 24-hour trend, health advice by band and haze news, in English and Bahasa Melayu. Unofficial; DOE's APIMS is the official source.

A short cartoon for small business owners. Auntie Mei runs a bakery, and Tok the robot shows her what happens when she asks a chatbot for a cake promotion: tokens, next-word guessing, training, attention, why it makes things up, and where a small business should start.

Made with Claude, Kokoro and Whisper, offline on a Mac, with no paid AI services. AI-generated voice and visuals.

Five-minute cartoons for working adults. Ben is a mid-career executive and Auntie Mei is the friend who has seen it all. Every number on screen comes from a published source, and each source is shown when it's used.

Sources: MOM Labour Market Reports 1Q and 2Q 2026; ManpowerGroup Global Talent Barometer 2026 (Singapore); Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Wage Growth Tracker; Wrzesniewski and Dutton (2001). Made with Claude, Kokoro and Whisper, offline on a Mac. AI-generated voice and visuals. Not career or financial advice.

Made with Claude Code, HyperFrames and GarageBand.

Based on Satya Nadella, "Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era", X Article, 10 Oct 2026. Independent summary; not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft.

A new home, a retrenchment, classes again, solo trips up north, a camera, and a pair of headphones that brought music back into my days. This year I read every one of those questions again and turned the year into a song.

See every line, and the question behind it →

A song by Charles Tay. Words from my own 2025, shaped with Claude. Music and vocals AI-generated (ChatCut). Video made with HyperFrames.

Written for coaching sessions with middle managers. Seven characters, from a grandmother of 85 to a 14-year-old at open house, each pull up a chair until everyone sits at one table. The final chorus carries three habits: notice what's showing, ask what's behind it, change how you listen.

Concept and lyrics by Charles Tay, written with Claude. Music and vocals AI-generated (ChatCut). Illustrations AI-generated (Qwen-Image in ComfyUI). Made with HyperFrames.

Same hook, new story. A retired founder, a senior technician, an operations manager, a team lead, a new hire on OJT and a student on a visit each pull up a stool until the whole team sits at one workbench.

Concept and lyrics by Charles Tay, written with Claude. Music and vocals AI-generated (ChatCut). Illustrations AI-generated (Qwen-Image in ComfyUI). Made with HyperFrames.

Singapore and its neighbours breathe the same smoke and wait for the same rain. The lyric video moves from a grey skyline and a climbing PSI reading to clear sky.

Lyrics by Charles Tay, with AI assistance. Music and vocals AI-generated with Mureka in ChatCut. Made with Claude and HyperFrames.

The boss sings first, the team answers, and by the last chorus everyone is singing together.

Lyrics by Charles Tay, from a colleague’s idea. Music and vocals AI-generated with Mureka in ChatCut. The watercolour scenes are AI video, made in ChatCut; the rest was made with Claude and HyperFrames.

The sun, clouds and confetti move on the beat and the chord changes, and each lyric lights up as it's sung.

Music and video by Charles Tay. Made with Claude, MiniMax-Music3 and HyperFrames. The music and vocals are AI-generated.

He takes the first verse, she takes the second, and they sing the choruses together. Each lyric lights up as it's sung, tagged for who is singing.

Lyrics by Charles Tay. Music and vocals AI-generated with Mureka in ChatCut. The watercolour scenes are AI video (Seedance, in ChatCut); the rest was made with Claude and HyperFrames.

He works at his bench day and night. At dawn it's finished, with “always” cut into it, and the bench is empty.

Story and direction by Charles Tay. Lyrics written with Claude. Music and vocals AI-generated with ChatCut. 3D animation in Blender; edit and lyrics in HyperFrames; made with Claude Code.

The words come from a year of quiet trips: three weeks in the highlands, then a train and a flight to two old churches. Each lyric is coloured for who is singing, amber for him, blue for her, white when they sing together.

Words by Charles Tay. Music and vocals AI-generated with Mureka in ChatCut. Lyric video built with Claude Code and HyperFrames. Backgrounds are Pixabay stock (Iconikmg, Nils_Vega). The candle is an AI-generated image (Higgsfield), animated in Google Flow.

Pixel art for the years when the world was a screen in a dark room, paint for when the stories opened up. Each verse is a place and a year: a flat in the late 1980s, a 486 and a pile of copied disks, a bus into town, a guardhouse in National Service.

See every line, and the real thing behind it →

Words and story by Charles Tay. Music and vocals AI-generated with Mureka in ChatCut. Images made with Qwen-Image 2.1 on my own Mac; pixel art drawn in code; five short clips from Wan 2.7 in OpenArt. Video built with Claude Code and HyperFrames.

It started on 15 October 2026, when people posted photos of rainwater in pails turned grey after the rain. The song follows one HDB estate: the pail in the corridor, the uncle who never checks the PSI, Ah Ma who likes the window open, a child coughing in the next room. The tips at the end follow NEA and HealthHub: windows shut when the PSI is unhealthy, a HEPA air cleaner in the bedroom, a mask outdoors. Speak to a doctor about your own health.

Idea and direction by Charles Tay. Lyrics drafted with Claude. Music and vocals AI-generated in ChatCut. Lyric timing with Whisper, pictures from Qwen-Image 2.1 and short clips from MiniMax H3, all run on my own Mac. Video built from code with HyperFrames and Claude Code. The characters are illustrations, not real people.

Strength is graded on a sausage scale, from cocktail sausage to the full bratwurst, and a ruler shows his length in cm. A capital letter perks his ears up, a number earns a collar, a symbol earns sunglasses. Type a common password and he falls asleep. Nothing you type leaves the page.

Concept inspired by designer Ramin Nasibov’s stretching-dachshund password animation. This is an independent take with original artwork and copy. Built with Claude Code: the dog is hand-drawn SVG, stretched by a small spring animation in plain JavaScript.