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Personal projects, adventures, and older experiments.

Writing & Nostalgia

Weblog December 1999, preserved in its natural habitat Writing Timers A sprint timer for drafting, and a plain countdown

Trail Checklists

Sea Base Twelve habits from the Florida Keys, for the other fifty weeks Philmont The same, from the New Mexico trek

Nature & Botany

Cat-Safe Plant Picker Six houseplants that are hard to kill, and where to buy them Moss Identification Key A dichotomous key for the mosses around Birmingham, AL

UI Experiments

System 7 Desktop Windows, menus and a trash can, in a browser tab

Teaching Tools

Class Decider Class Activity Randomizer

Games, Toys & Puzzles

Bouldering Move one limb at a time and watch the stamina go Bikepacking A hundred kilometres on whatever you decided to carry Imaging Card Games Four decks — EEG, MEG, MRI, PET — and a set to collect Minesweeper The classic. Tap to reveal, hold to flag Hex Board Sandbox A blank hex grid for working a position out by hand Breakthrough Five Break through to the far rank, and still be there next turn 100 Doors Puzzle Step the passes and watch the perfect squares survive Frontier Expedition Cross the map on dwindling rations and reach the pass Vancian Wizard Duel Ten spells out of the Dying Earth, and a die of fate Wizard Duel The same fight with status effects and health bars Neural Field Survey Minesweeper, rethemed as an electrode array