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The Lab

Small tools, visual experiments, open-source utilities, and prototypes that may become something larger. Every entry says where it stands and what the current build or concept actually does.

Lab experiments with their state, review date, and where to go
Experiment State Reviewed Where to go
Park Field Guide Pixel maps, field notes, and live queue context for major theme parks. An evolving field guide that treats rides, shows, walkthroughs, play areas, exhibits, parades, and nighttime spectaculars as one navigable system.
Live See it in Parks 
Purrfect Match A free WordPress plugin that turns a rescue's public Petfinder listings into its own filterable, branded adoption page. Built for CJ Paws with pet stories, accessible listing states, structured data, and optional shared caching, without requiring a Petfinder API key.
Live See the build  View source  (opens in a new tab)
Theme Park Day Finder A scoring model for choosing a park day using more than a crowd calendar. The concept combines crowd pressure, weather comfort, operating hours, ride availability, events, tickets, travel cost, lodging, and personal priorities.
Concept Research concept Research notes in progress.
Visual Guide Engine The reusable content and rendering system behind the visual guides. Typed Astro content, accessible HTML diagrams, structured data, social metadata, print views, and reusable guide cards all come from one source of truth.
Prototype See it in Guides 
Autonomous Car Starting work on my own autonomous car, beginning with how Waymo's fleet sees, decides, and drives. Voxel models of the vehicles Waymo runs and tests, the sensors each one carries, and the Waymo Driver's steps in plain language, every fact linked to Waymo's own material. No hardware yet.
Concept Read the study 

Useful even when unfinished.

  • status stays honest

    Concept, prototype, and live are not interchangeable labels.

  • the page survives

    An archived experiment should still explain the problem and what was learned.

  • good ideas can graduate

    A project that becomes a product can keep its Lab page as the origin story.