Explorations

Design tests, visual concepts, and technological sandboxes — from data viz to creative tributes.

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01
News Briefing
A curated news dashboard surfacing articles across product management, tech, and real estate. Stories are organized by category with one-click filters, so you can skim what matters most. Built with a card layout and full dark mode support.
02
USA States Quiz
An interactive quiz that tests your knowledge of all 50 U.S. states using real facts and trivia. Answer prompts, track your score, and see how well you really know American geography.
03
Coachisms
A tribute page collecting memorable quotes and wisdom from Coach, of Survivor fame. Flip through sayings on a clean card interface and celebrate your favorites with a burst of confetti. A personal and nostalgic project.
04
Lead Form
A sleek, minimal contact form that captures and stores submissions directly to Firestore. Built as a practical demo of a real-world lead-capture flow, complete with validation and database integration.
05
The Wall
A public community board where anyone can post text notes or freehand drawings. Posts appear in real time for all visitors, making it a fun shared digital canvas — no login required.
06
WWII Timeline
An interactive month-by-month timeline of World War II, 1938–1945. Each entry tells the story from two perspectives — the Allies above the line, the Axis below. Click any month to read the full account of both sides.
07
Browse Countries
A searchable, sortable table of every country in the world powered by the REST Countries API. Browse 250+ countries with area and population data, sort by any column, paginate 25 at a time, and click any row to see the full country profile — flag, capital, languages, currencies, borders, and more.
08
Super Dashboard
A live data dashboard with five widgets: local weather via geolocation, real-time major stock indexes and world markets, current mortgage rates from Freddie Mac, live ISS tracking with moon phase and sunrise/sunset astronomy, and a real-time dot map of active US flights via OpenSky.
09
Google Auth Test
A hands-on test of Firebase Authentication with Google Sign-In. Hit the branded "Sign in with Google" button, authorize via your Google account, and see your real profile — display name, email, avatar, UID, provider, email verification status, and account timestamps — all returned live from Firebase Auth.
10
Middle-earth Map
An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth with 23 named locations — pan, zoom, and click any marker to read lore and descriptions for places like Rivendell, Mordor, the Shire, Moria, and more.
11
NBA Stats
A live NBA stats dashboard showing current season conference standings, today's scoreboard with scores and game status, and season stat leaders — all pulled from ESPN on every visit. Includes a dedicated Kobe Bryant career retrospective with season-by-season stats, awards, and milestones.
12
Naruto Things
Four ways to explore the ninja world — all powered by the Dattebayo public API. Browse characters in the Bingo Book, drill into hidden villages and clans, duel random ninja on stat categories, or search a complete jutsu encyclopedia aggregated from character records.
13
Monster Database
An RPG monster management app with procedural generation, Firestore persistence, and a full CRUD power-user editor. Browse monsters in a filterable card grid, generate new creatures with randomized stats and abilities, or manage the entire database from a sortable table with inline edit and bulk delete.
14
Solar System
An interactive tour of the solar system. Hover over any planet, moon, or the Sun to enlarge it and reveal its name. Click to zoom in and explore stats, a description, and notable moons — then zoom back out to continue exploring.
15
World Cup 2026
A live FIFA World Cup 2026 tracker with six tabs: today's matches with live scores, a countdown to the next kickoff with the remaining schedule, all 48 teams with expandable rosters, stat leaders plus group standings and a knockout bracket, betting odds alongside Polymarket win probabilities, and breaking tournament news — all pulled live from ESPN and Polymarket on every visit.
16
AI Wrapped
A Spotify-Wrapped-style year-in-review of Chris's cross-platform AI usage — total volume, top assistant, longest relationship, a monthly activity trend line, top topics, and a few surprising stats, built from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude export data. Password-gated.
17
Number Ones
Fifty years of cultural champions (1976–2025) in five interactive charts — each year's top movie, best-selling book, best-selling car, market-cap-king stock, and song of the year, paired with the season's award winner. Scrub the time-machine slider or hit play to watch the decades roll by.
18
Battlefield Flyover
Cinematic 3D terrain flyovers of four historical battles — Gettysburg, Austerlitz, Thermopylae, and Cannae — told phase by phase with narration and animated unit movements drawn on the real landscape (MapLibre GL + MapTiler terrain).
19
AI Pulse
A cutting-edge-AI dashboard — live headlines aggregated from Hacker News and the lab blogs, a frontier model-release timeline, benchmark standings (LMArena, SWE-bench), and ecosystem signals from Hugging Face and OpenRouter. Live feeds via a serverless aggregator; benchmarks hand-curated and dated.
20
Drift
An ambient super-screensaver with four switchable channels — public-domain masterpieces from the Met and the Art Institute of Chicago, NASA astronomy photos, Google Earth View satellite vistas, and a live aurora rendered by a WebGL shader. Clock, slow Ken Burns drift, real credits, keyboard controls, fullscreen.
21
Air Quality Globe
A 3D interactive Earth showing live air quality in ~230 cities worldwide — spin the globe, and every city grows a spike colored and sized by its current US AQI. Tap a city for the full pollutant breakdown, browse the most-polluted and cleanest rankings, and filter by category. Live data from Open-Meteo's CAMS feed, refreshed every 10 minutes.
22
Lull
A sleep & relax sound mixer inspired by ambience YouTube — layer rain, ocean, wind, café murmur, and drones with generative lo-fi hip hop or quiet jazz, every sound synthesized live in Web Audio (nothing sampled, nothing licensed). Each channel paints its own animated scene, and a sleep timer fades everything out on the audio clock.
23
Theme Lab
A design-theme playground: frozen markup restyled live by swappable design systems. Ships thirteen themes — a restrained Apple-HIG "Anti-AI" system, an unthemed baseline, a gradient-soaked "AI Slop" parody, this site's own look, Material 3, a phosphor Terminal, Neo-Brutalist, an Editorial print setting, Windows 98, Glassmorphism, Vaporwave/Y2K, Swiss International, and Neumorphism — across a component gallery plus six example sites (storefront, social feed, docs, admin dashboard, blog, inbox), with a phone-frame mobile preview.
24
Vista
A curated wallpaper gallery: 115 free, wallpaper-grade photos of Earth and space — glacial lakes, auroras, deep fields, and nebulae from Wikimedia Commons, NASA, and ESA — in a masonry wall you can search by subject (aurora, ice, nebula, desert), with a lightbox carrying per-photo credit, licence, and a full-resolution link.
25
Legend
An interactive atlas of 36 maps worth getting lost in — real published maps of fictional places (Treasure Island, Botticelli's Map of Hell, Atlantis), milestones from the history of cartography (Waldseemüller, Mercator, John Snow's cholera map), and thematic portraits of the world right now — each in a pan-zoom viewer with curated story points, hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons with per-map credit and licence.
26
Otherworld
Fictional overlays on the real world — one pan-zoom map with three switchable fictions: eight invented kingdoms carved over Europe with banners, capitals, and lore; a 27-day two-kaiju rampage across the Pacific replayed on a timeline scrubber; and a four-line fantasy metro for Washington, D.C., including the Old Ghost Line that never stopped running.
27
Deep Time
A timeline of everything — the Big Bang to today on one continuous strip you zoom across nine orders of magnitude. Detail arrives as you dive: eons subdivide into eras and periods, and 110 landmark events fade in by significance, from the first stars to the Cambrian explosion to the year the transistor was invented. A log-scale minimap shows where you are in all 13.8 billion years.
28
Snapshots of History
Eight zoomable timelines sharing one engine — four out of the history books (the Roman Empire from the kings to the fall of Constantinople, four millennia of Chinese dynasties, World War II down to individual days, the Mongol empire from Temüjin to the khanates) and four out of fiction (Middle Earth across its four ages, Star Wars either side of Yavin, eight thousand years of Westeros, and the MCU in in-universe order) — each dressed in its own palette, type, and era bands.
29
How America Saw Today
A daily wall of American newspaper front pages from exactly 100 years ago, drawn live from the Library of Congress. Browse a geographically mixed view, filter by region, open each page at high resolution, and follow it back to the complete digitized issue.
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