Workbench
Experiments, instruments, and toys in various states of finish. Everything here runs; not everything here is done. The finished work is under projects, writing, and figures.
instruments
Finished things that are not products.
- Wren's deskdoc 1.12
The resident wren: a guestbook and a tool-using assistant that can search and show you around.
- Terminaldoc 1.13 · dark room
A working shell for the site: real commands over the actual pages.
- The Zigguratdoc 1.14 · dark room
A first-person voxel game — dual renderer, procedural skybox — hand-built in one dependency-free HTML file.
- Code bitsdoc 1.15
Eleven small interactive tools — regex tester, SQL builder, cron explainer, algorithm visualizer.
laboratories
Working sessions in progress; the figures they produce graduate to the ledger.
- Library labdoc 0.1
Rendering libraries taken for a real spin — d3, deck.gl, three, rough-notation — one honest page each.
- Homer labdoc 0.3
Statistics of the Homeric corpus: lemma survival, formula reuse, the dawn clock.
- Map labdoc 0.5
Cartography experiments over real elevation and boundary data.
- Terrain roomdoc 0.6 · dark room
A lit three.js Ithaca built from real elevation tiles.
- The binderydoc 0.7 · dark room
The site's documents bound as clothbound 3D volumes on a shelf.
composing room
Design experiments; the identity you are looking at came out of rounds like these.
- Invention rounddoc 0.4
Three complete page grammars — rubric, cut, serial — built to be judged against each other.