Most of my cool projects are locked away within the companies for which I built them. However, here are some things I can share!
I used to play ASCII chess over chat with my brother. I loved that it was asynchronous and I could pick it up and leave it as needed. I thought it would be fun to build something like a text-adventure that could work in a similar fashion. After about 5 rewrites, I finally released it!
Check it out at
SuperTextAdventure.com
I heard about an amazing project that allowed you to transmit an FM signal right out of the GPIO pins of a Raspberry Pi. That got me thinking and that thinking turned into this crazy idea: a radio broadcast summarizing the events from your smart devices, emails, and the weather - all fully automated - even the vocals. This project is very much a work in progress but a functional proof of concept that I have actively working in my home.
Check it out on
Github
The Urbit OS project is an incredible project and one day I stumbled across its documentation. Have you ever seen that fun joke video about the Retro Encabulator? Well these docs made me feel like I was watching that video. So as a way to quickly generate some real, but usually impenetrable text, I created a little tool that will randomly grab a snippet from the docs and format it in Markdown for quick pasting into Slack.
It's hosted live at https://urbit-quote.fly.dev/quote
Check it out on Github
This is a site I built with the help of a friend that will generate a nice looking article based on the URL slug that tells you to figure it out. This came about as a fun way to send links that seem like they'll be answering questions but really just give you a random page that contains some Faker fun.
It's hosted live at https://figureitout.page
Or https://figureitout.page/how-do-i-use-this-site
Check it out on
Github
My son loves the self-checkout at Dollar General. He enjoys it with the intensity that only an autistic child is capable of - and it's wonderful. So I took a couple of evenings and used Alpine.js and TailwindCSS to build a web-version he could experience on his tablet.
Check it out on Github