Small builds, interactive experiments, and prototypes that help me work through ideas in public. Some are playful. Some are pointed.
A portable iPad usability testing setup with two cameras, clean-screen capture, and an interactive 3D equipment diagram.
The recording problem, the equipment choices, and how the setup captures face, hands, and screen together.
An AI knowledge management system I designed in 2024 to increase memory retention and protect attention while reading. It starts as a reader, keeps everything you add, and links ideas over years of study.
The page follows the idea from the first storyboard through a 22-panel paper prototype tested with two people and a long-term experience map, then lays out what a version that keeps teaching its user would need.
Rhythm Dice RD-011 and Cymbal Phrase CP-004 turn bounded musical rules into MIDI inside Ableton Live 12. Both compiled devices and their source packages are free under the MIT License.
The report covers the rhythm and cymbal research behind the tools, the narrow Live interface that forced better decisions, the failures that had to be fixed, and the exact installation path for using them in a MIDI clip.
One hundred standalone browser experiments: games, instruments, simulations, data visualizations, generative art, editorial systems, control panels, and stranger things that resist a clean category.
The collection started with a plan-first constraint: every page needed its own visual mechanic, layout, palette, type treatment, and way to respond. The gallery loads all 100 as live thumbnails, and each experiment opens as a complete offline-capable page.
A native-scroll journey where one FM patch drives both the animated field and an opt-in Web Audio instrument. Scroll changes the composition; movement, taps, and drags bend it temporarily.
The experiment asks whether native scroll can make technical frequency-modulation relationships visible, audible, playable, and entertaining without turning the page into a conventional synthesizer.
An endless generative cosmos that turns navigation into composition. Drag steers through a deterministic 3D galaxy, scrolling changes velocity and sound, and celestial bodies ring as the aim beam crosses them.
Built through repeated live testing to see how far one self-contained HTML file could go. Every body moves, the ambient score evolves at rest, and click-drag sweeps generate body-derived tones while the wheel drives flight and sound.
A browser-based drum sequencer that turns rule-bound rhythmic research into grooves you can roll, edit, humanize, and export.
I wanted to make the difference between randomness and groove visible. Stable anchors hold the beat together while density, feel, timing, velocity, and seeded variation change what happens around them.
A forked Ableton MCP grew from 22 tools to 52 so Claude Code could inspect its own work instead of guessing. The resulting timing grammar replaced random humanization with explicit musical relationships.
The lab records what changed in the tooling, what changed in the arrangement, and what still cannot be claimed without an audio-return path.
Ten deliberately difficult surreal prompts, ten completed Grok Imagine Video clips, and every prompt reproduced beside its output.
James selected the test shape and reviewed the outputs. The record focuses on prompt adherence, temporal coherence, embedded audio, visual variety, content-policy handling, and retry behavior.
Ten original graphics on an RTX 2080 SUPER, ten LTX-2.3 videos on an RTX 3090, and a measured return to the normal Qwen workload.
The report documents the operating switch, card-specific workload, render throughput, power and thermal peaks, one upstream model-file failure, and the 23.8-second verified restoration path.
A measured account of the memory system behind Clarence: one writer, full provenance, retrieval tests, silent failures, and the work still needed to make memory trustworthy.
The lab follows knowledge through storage, retrieval, governance, expiry, supersession, and authority to act. It keeps the numbers and the failures visible instead of hiding them inside architecture copy.
A click-through examination of the gap between retrieving a relevant sentence and having permission to act on it.
The lab follows one claim through retrieval, expiry, supersession, and a proposed authority-to-act gate. It makes the failure mode visible instead of hiding it inside architecture copy.
Eight short video loops made by pushing LTX-2.3 through a deliberately stupid escalation ladder: mandala, shrine, mineshaft, teeth cathedral, basement moth choir, organ clock, sludge court, worm university.
Eight strange local video loops produced on a consumer RTX 2080 SUPER through a disciplined low-VRAM workflow: quantized model, conservative resolution, supervised workers, and ffmpeg loop finishing.
A local image-generation lab built around an 8GB RTX 2080 SUPER. I used five lightweight diffusion models to turn 50 source stills into 500 glitch variations for the RandyCamp visual deck.
The point was practical: find out whether a small local card could generate enough useful visual material for Clipcycle without renting a cloud GPU or waiting on a remote queue. The page documents the build, the hardware constraints, the timing, and the full result set.
An interactive portfolio piece that turns UX critique into something you can actually feel. Instead of writing about bad interface patterns, it lets you use them, experience why they fail, and compare them directly to redesigns that fix the underlying problem.
The museum covers 15 infamous interface failures drawn from real products, FTC complaints, and dark patterns research. Each exhibit follows the same structure: experience the broken version, read the principle-level analysis, then see a better version side by side. The point is simple: critique is cheap, redesign is not.
A preserved creative-coding composition translated into six animated color worlds: the original plus five Warhol-style variations. It keeps the geometry and tension of the first piece, then lets color do the emotional remixing.
The page behaves like one artwork instead of six disconnected sketches. Hover over any horizon to wake it up, move the mouse to bend the atmosphere, and click to pull a single variation into focus before dropping back into the full field.
Updated Sep 29, 2026, refreshed reviewed public snapshot
onlinePublic-safe system pulse showing live knowledge metrics, system health, and architecture signals from Clarence.
Inspired by Sol LeWitt's instruction-based wall drawings: rotating nested squares over a field of random geometry. Clickable: click to pause or resume, and move the mouse vertically to change the speed.
Moving rectangles bounce around the canvas and every 5 seconds deposit a nested copy of themselves onto a persistent layer. Clickable: click to pause or resume the accumulation.
A drifting grid where each cell slowly accumulates recursive color blocks over time. Motion stays temporary. The nested geometry persists. Not clickable: this one just evolves on its own.
A field of moving diagonal crosses with noise-driven stroke weights and a jittering square overlay. Loud, geometric, and unstable in a good way. Clickable: click to pause or resume.
One hundred full-frame diagonal crosses drift horizontally and vertically while Perlin noise thickens and thins each stroke. It feels like a CRT test pattern learning how to breathe. Clickable: click to pause or resume.
A speaker-like wallpaper grid of ellipses and nested rectangles under a command-heavy mantra. Clickable: click to randomize the color and cell scale, and press-hold to trigger the rotating rectangle behavior.
A simple but effective hypnotic field: translucent red-pink dots bloom across a black canvas until it feels like afterimages burned into your eyes. Clickable: click to clear the canvas.
A slow-cycling blast of ellipses, rectangles, and triangles over a constantly mutating background. Less composition, more sudden visual weather. Clickable: click to force a fresh random frame.
A political satire game about navigating a surveillance state. Sprite-based characters move through procedurally generated environments with sound. Three iterations: from prototype to full narrative arc.
Ten short motion studies from the current psychedelic clip factory, built from hosted FLUX stills and finished locally. Muted, inline, and looping by default.
Radial rainbow bloom with a slow inward pull.
Radial rainbow bloom with a slow inward pull.
Stained-glass symmetry with a cooler color rotation.
Stained-glass symmetry with a cooler color rotation.
Liquid spiral motion with a brighter magenta-cyan bias.
Liquid spiral motion with a brighter magenta-cyan bias.
Tile-like sunburst with a warmer high-contrast finish.
Tile-like sunburst with a warmer high-contrast finish.
Iridescent maze energy with a darker jewel-tone drift.
Iridescent maze energy with a darker jewel-tone drift.
Electric petal loop with the fastest hue travel in the set.
Electric petal loop with the fastest hue travel in the set.
Layered stained-glass bloom with a gentler pulse.
Layered stained-glass bloom with a gentler pulse.
Radial tile burst with a sharper push through the frame.
Radial tile burst with a sharper push through the frame.
Ribbon-like spiral motion with a brighter orbiting palette.
Ribbon-like spiral motion with a brighter orbiting palette.
Cool aurora gradients and a slower, calmer turn.
Cool aurora gradients and a slower, calmer turn.
A second pass on the same ten loops, this time feeding each finished clip into a patched Colliding Scopes kaleidoscope pipeline. Same source set, different folding logic.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Prism Bloom, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Prism Bloom, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Cathedral Wheel, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Cathedral Wheel, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Spiral Tide, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Spiral Tide, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Mosaic Sun, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Mosaic Sun, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Opal Labyrinth, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Opal Labyrinth, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Rosette Current, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Rosette Current, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Glass Flower, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Glass Flower, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Tile Comet, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Tile Comet, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Ribbon Orbit, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Ribbon Orbit, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Aurora Emblem, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.
Patched Colliding Scopes remix of Aurora Emblem, using the original loop as a live kaleidoscope source.