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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.

A laboratory flask connected to live experiments, prototypes, and side projects. A geometric editorial illustration using the site’s foundation, surface, and signal color roles. LAB AM/
  1. Park Field Guide project motif LIVE / AM
    Maps + live context Live

    Status reviewed

    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.

  2. Purrfect Match project motif LIVE / AM
    Community + open source Live

    Status reviewed

    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.

  3. Theme Park Day Finder project motif CONCEPT / AM
    Decision support Concept

    Status reviewed

    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.

    Research concept Research notes in progress; there is no public planner to open yet.
  4. Visual Guide Engine project motif PROTOTYPE / AM
    Publishing system Prototype

    Status reviewed

    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.

Lab rules

Useful even when unfinished.

  1. status stays honest

    Concept, prototype, and live are not interchangeable labels.

  2. the page survives

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

  3. good ideas can graduate

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