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A graveyard of failed projects, scrapped prototypes, and abandoned experiments. Most of these went nowhere. None of them are online for anyone to see. But the notes from the wreckage might be interesting.

Last updated: February 2026

40+
Projects Started
30+
Scrapped
~9
Have Promise
4
Proof-of-Concept Sketches
Live / Deployed
Has Promise
Research
Scrapped / Failed

Most of these projects failed. They were built during a period of intense, unfocused experimentation -- chasing ideas across AI orchestration, knowledge systems, learning tools, philosophy, theology, creative coding, and whatever else seemed interesting at 2am. The majority were scrapped before anyone else ever saw them. Some never got past a prototype. Others worked fine but solved problems nobody had.

The method behind everything is one-shot composition: creating something from a single prompt (or close to it), with context files acting as modulators and configuration. No iterative product development -- just a prompt and what comes out of it. The published sites are proof-of-concept sketches, not polished products.

I'm not putting most of this online for others to use. But a handful have real promise and might be worth cleaning up into something publishable -- marked below with amber dots. The rest are here because even failed experiments leave behind useful notes, and the wreckage of forty-some projects is its own kind of documentation.

Note: Most published content is AI-generated and has not been independently reviewed for accuracy. I do not personally endorse or guarantee the generated material. Use discretion.

Published Sketches

4 proof-of-concept

Interactive neuroscience learning platform with 3D brain visualization (21 regions), 82 registered topics, molecule viewer, action potential simulator, and element-level annotation system. 1,148 tests. AI-generated content; not independently reviewed.

React Three.js D3 TypeScript Vite

18-page multimedia exhibition of Nietzsche's philosophy. Covers 9 major works, 4 core concepts, biography, and an experimental "abyss" piece. Mountain-themed design with parallax, mist animations, and gold accents. AI-generated content; not independently reviewed.

HTML/CSS/JS Exhibition Philosophy

Professional bio page. Background at Amazon (SDE II, marketplace shipping platform), sabbatical, current work at JazzyDog Labs.

HTML/CSS Bio

Learning Platform Blueprint

Reusable architecture for interactive educational platforms, derived from the Neuro build. Covers topic registry design, component patterns, test templates, parallelization strategy, and field adaptation guide.

HTML Architecture Blueprint

Development Infrastructure

7 projects

Spinuphas promise

Service orchestrator and control plane for the entire dev ecosystem. Manages service start/stop/status via tmux, port management, project file manifest generation, and project registry with archival. Port 8010.

Python FastAPI tmux Orchestration

Executive Assistant

Local orchestration system for Claude Code sessions. Four-layer architecture (human interface, orchestration, execution, knowledge). Handoff-based work transfer, lesson tracking with hypothesis review, session management.

Python FastAPI React SQLite Alembic

Context Manager

Dynamic context system for Claude Code sessions with blessed/scratchpad workflow. MCP server integration, diff-based review, promotion workflow, and comments/annotations on context documents.

Node.js React MCP

Safety Tools

4-layer security system for Claude Code's PreToolUse hook. Regex pattern matching, AST-based analysis with bashlex, LLM safety review via Haiku, and human escalation. Four safety modes from relaxed to paranoid.

Python bashlex Anthropic SDK Security

Flow Notify

Native macOS notification system with persistent history dashboard. CLI + FastAPI server with SQLite storage. Integrates with Claude Code hooks for Stop and Notification events.

Python FastAPI Typer SQLite

Event Service

Inter-service communication layer using Redis Streams. Pub/sub event bus enabling coordination between spinup, nexus, and the agent orchestrator across the dev ecosystem.

Redis Streams Pub/Sub Events

Agent Orchestrator

Agent spawning and coordination system. Works with the event service and spinup to manage parallel Claude Code sessions, task decomposition, and result aggregation. Port 8001.

Orchestration Agents Coordination

Learning & Study Tools

7 projects

Scripturehas promise

Bible reading tracker with multiple visualizations (treemaps, bar charts, 3D tabernacle scene). Annotated chapter views with interlinear Greek/Hebrew text. Full-text search, book overviews, 100% Matthew annotation coverage.

React Vite Express FastAPI Three.js

Memorize

SM-2 spaced repetition system for scripture and church history learning. OAuth support, flexible JSON import with nested decks, PWA support, keyboard shortcuts, and learning plans.

Next.js 14 SQLite Drizzle ORM PWA

Mem

Stack-based memory progression games across 6 domains: Tarot (22 Major Arcana), Apostles, Tribes of Israel, Commandments, Plagues of Egypt, Olympians. Configurable via JSON with orbiting symbols and themed card patterns.

Python Flask Memory Games

Bible API

Bible verse lookup and full-text search API. 37,817 NRSVUE verses, 344,651 cross-references from TSK and OpenBible. Flexible reference parsing, graph explorer, SQLite with FTS5.

Python FastAPI SQLite/FTS5

Tarot

Tarot deck learning and reading app with AI interpretations. Library-first architecture with pure Python domain library and clean separation (web, api, core, storage). Phase 1 complete.

Python FastAPI React

Readerhas promise

Beautiful reading app with annotations and progress tracking. Current content: Paradise Lost (12 books) and Leaves of Grass (23 poems). Well-architected with potential for future expansion.

FastAPI React Express Literature

YouTube Music

Video manager with custom tagging, categorization, and playlist creation/publishing. YouTube OAuth integration, drag-and-drop list management, Tampermonkey quick-add browser script.

FastAPI React YouTube API

Knowledge Systems

6 projects

Synthesis

Multi-phase alchemical synthesis of 10 foundational documents on meta-design and AI architecture. Phase 1: monads. Phase 2: 45 pairwise dyads. Phase 3: 120 triads. Phase 4: compression to 10 distillations. Phase 5 (Rubedo) planned.

Markdown 134 documents ~200K words Research

Ruminate

Domain-aware search engine for the synthesis corpus. TF-IDF with Porter stemming, ~50 curated synonym clusters, structure-aware markdown indexing, 4-layer scoring (TF-IDF x expansion x phase x depth). No ML -- deterministic, transparent.

Python SQLite TF-IDF Search

Memex

Local-first personal knowledge management system inspired by Vannevar Bush. Interconnected *.loc sites (notes, bookmarks, projects) with cross-site link tracking API, Caddy reverse proxy, dnsmasq, PostgreSQL, Docker.

Node.js HTML/CSS/JS PostgreSQL Docker Caddy

Docs Knowledge Base

Personal knowledge repository of ~1.1GB. 15 markdown documents on AI agents, frontend mastery, systems design. Includes YAML metadata index, Python CLI for automated indexing via Haiku, and a Vite+React browsing frontend.

Markdown Python React YAML

Philosophia (SEP DAG)has promise

Interactive taxonomy explorer organizing 1,849 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles. 12 philosophical domains in a layer-stratified DAG, 4-8 subcategories per domain with reading orders and prerequisite chains. React+D3.

React D3 Philosophy 1,849 articles

Scripture Verses

Scholarly theological study on the unity of the love commandments. Three markdown documents: biblical sources (10 thematic sections), patristic sources (Chrysostom, Augustine, Symeon), and "The One Commandment" thesis essay.

Markdown Theology Patristics

Creative & Experimental

8 projects

Topology Editor

Visual code editor with bidirectional UML-to-TypeScript synchronization. Canvas-based diagram with draggable interface boxes, CodeMirror editor, local-first file persistence. Real-time sync between visual and code representations.

Vanilla JS Node.js CodeMirror Canvas

Noesis Visualizationhas promise

Interactive meditation on Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda.9 -- "thinking of thinking thinking." WebGL2 visualization with 6 abstraction levels: word, symbol, sphere, dipole field, categories with morphisms, fractal infinite.

HTML/CSS/JS WebGL2 Philosophy

Romanian Tarot

Multi-dimensional cultural tarot celebrating Romanian patrimony. POC with ~87 Dacian cards, targeting 2,500-3,500+ across 8 phases (Dacian, Roman, Slavic, Ottoman...). "The Threshold" game with Living/Shadow dual-state mechanics.

JSON Card Design Cultural

Psychedelic Visualizerhas promise

Audio-reactive fractal visualization built with React and TypeScript. Real-time procedural graphics responding to audio input.

React TypeScript Audio Visuals

Classics Library

Full-stack library project for classic literature (2.1GB+). Frontend and backend for serving and reading classic texts with annotations and study features.

React Full-Stack Literature

Atelier

Idea incubation system for organizing, developing, and graduating ideas to POC projects. Each idea stored as a separate git repo with metadata in SQLite catalog. Kanban interface, Monaco editor, markdown preview.

FastAPI React SQLite Git

Visuhas promise

Minimal text editor built with SDL2. Low-level experiment in text rendering and editor design outside the browser.

SDL2 C/C++ Text Editor

Webcam Pulse

WebGL/HTML animation experiment with webcam input. Prototype for real-time visual effects processing in the browser.

WebGL HTML Animation

Writing Experiments

5 projects

Synthesis Phases 1-4

AI-generated. Nigredo (10 monads), Albedo (45 dyads), continued Albedo (120 triads, ~261K tokens), and Citrinitas (compressed to 10 distillations, ~24K tokens). Alchemical metaphor for systematic knowledge compression. Phase 5 (Rubedo) is the planned final integration.

Markdown Alchemy Meta-Design AI Architecture

The One Commandment

AI-generated theological essay arguing the two love commandments reduce to one through Christ's identification with the neighbor. Biblical sources, patristic grounding (Chrysostom, Augustine, Symeon, Athanasius), anagogical vision. Not a personal theological position.

Markdown Theology Essay

Research Kernel & Guideshas promise

15 knowledge base documents covering: Research Kernel, 6 Claude Code guides, subagent/orchestration patterns, context management, Vite+React mastery, Coherence Kernel, and Descent Theory. ~8,500 lines of distilled practice.

Markdown AI Agents Systems Design

Y Combinator

AI-generated exploration of the Y combinator as a theoretical concept and its relation to Aristotle's noesis noeseos noesis -- thinking thinking thinking. The fixed-point combinator as a formal echo of self-referential thought.

Markdown Lambda Calculus Philosophy

ScopeOut

Comprehensive SaaS product design documentation. Full spec covering market analysis, features, architecture, and go-to-market strategy. Extensive design docs in sandbox.

Docs SaaS Product Design