Things I build and explore for fun: live maps, small games, honest calculators, and apps you can install. Everything runs on open data and browser APIs.
Live feeds, open government data, and browser APIs turned into maps you can poke: hurricanes, earthquakes, aircraft, the Space Station, the sun, and the wind.
Two cities, one explorer. Tap any Florida county for its hazard report card built on FEMA and NOAA data, or switch to Cape Town and read the Mother City through its own open data: fire station cover, wetlands, and property valuations for 777 suburbs.
Fifty seasons of Atlantic hurricanes from NOAA’s best-track archive, animated over a coastline map. Scrub the years, ghost past seasons, and tap any track for the storm behind it, with story lines on the monsters drafted by Claude from the data itself.
Six submarine cables connect this country to the web. Tap each one for its story, then relive the day in March 2024 when the west coast went dark and the east coast quietly carried the load.
Every earthquake the USGS has catalogued in the past day or week, fetched by your browser the moment you open the page. Circle size is magnitude, color is depth, and the three strongest are outlined.
A radar scope of every aircraft transmitting within 150 nautical miles of you. The flight data travels through this site’s own WordPress REST endpoint, because the upstream sources refuse to talk to browsers directly.
The Space Station’s live position, this lap’s ground track, and the glowing patch of Earth that can see it, polled every few seconds. One tap tells you how far away it is right now.
A live day and night map with no API behind it: the browser computes the sun’s position itself, then geolocation adds your sunrise, sunset, and next golden hour. Pure astronomy, zero data feeds.
Thousands of canvas particles riding real surface winds across a world map: trade winds, westerlies, and whatever storm is spinning today, all drawing themselves. One tap fetches the atmosphere as it is right now.
Small games that run entirely in your browser and quietly teach a web skill on the side.
Guess whether text passes WCAG AA before the fuse burns out. Ten rounds that start friendly and end hugging the 4.5 to 1 boundary, with the real math revealed after every guess.
Practical calculators built the way I build client work: honest numbers, real list prices, no signup.
Pick a use case, drag the sliders, and see what a Claude-powered feature would cost per month across four model tiers. Real July 2026 list prices, honest arithmetic.
Eight design tokens drive an entire mock landing page: drag the hue, swap the fonts, loosen the spacing, and watch it become a different site. Export the result as CSS custom properties or a WordPress theme.json fragment, with a live WCAG check keeping the palette honest.
Progressive web apps you can put on a home screen. Once installed they keep working with no connection at all.
An installable app that generates endless matrix logic, number sequence, and mental rotation puzzles on your device, with difficulty that adapts to you. Works fully offline once installed. It trains test patterns; it does not measure intelligence.