makes · the artifacts, not the claims
What it makes
Everything below is the real output of a pipeline that runs on one small computer at home. The specimens are synthetic — real structure, invented families — because no household data ever enters this repo. Where there is no specimen to show, this page says so instead of showing something else.
The Field Card
The daily artifact: a printable morning activity card for kids — weather-aware, materials-checked and safety-gated, generated and promoted overnight with nobody awake for it. The specimen is a captured Sunday for the fictional Fern family: a morning and an afternoon activity, each with its materials line and its grown-up condition, and two named rangers aged 6 and 4.
field-testing with one family — not yet open 6,978 bytes · synthetic fixture
The Field Map
The lab's own trail map — milestones climbed, capability maturity, and the honest distance still left to the north star. It is the one artifact the lab makes about itself, which is why it is the one most worth checking against the rest of this site.
field-testing with one family — not yet open 18,284 bytes
The PII guard, read whole
Not a description of a gate — the gate. The actual source of the check that reads every staged diff in this repo, generated from the running file at build time and stamped with its own digest. It proves what the gate checks. It cannot prove this is the copy executing on the lab's machine, and it says so.
published in full
Guitar HQ ↗
The first incubator tenant: a standalone practice tool built with the same tooling, deployed on its own rail. The demo is live and the link goes to it. What is missing is a captured specimen in this repo — so rather than show you a picture of it, this card tells you there isn't one.
standalone demo · live no specimen here — needs the synthetic-capture ceremony
Trait Constellation ↗
Ten thousand NFTs from a single collection projected as a flyby 3D constellation as viewed from your spaceship. Each NFT is plotted based on trait similarity and rarity so neighbors share traits and the genuinely odd ones sit alone on the rim. Vibe coded in a few hours on a repo that was governed from its first commit. The collection publishes its own rank; anything this tool derives is labelled as derived, and the header carries a checksum proving the parse against the collection’s own count on every record.
live · public built with a community, not for one
Betta Tank
The lab’s aquarium-care experiment: a mobile dashboard for one real five-gallon betta tank, tracking water quality, maintenance, lighting, and overdue tasks without turning fish keeping into a second hobby. Built through continuous family use, automated testing, adversarial critique, and a parallel effort to recreate the actual tank and fish as a living animated centerpiece.
field-testing with one family — active standalone personal tool · incubator
Two more artifacts travel as data rather than as pages, and both are fetchable: /now.json, the promoted snapshot behind the day on the record, and /receipts.json, a per-commit manifest with a SHA-256 you can recompute from the file itself.