Reference Plate: The Consumer-Tech Measurement Desk
An independent testing desk that measures consumer health-tech products against named references, then publishes the difference.
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An independent testing desk that measures consumer health-tech products against named references, then publishes the difference.
A propulsion engineer’s personal account of building liquid rocket engines, control systems, and the programmes around them.
A bilingual Windows game in which players write real Rust code to cast spells, solve dungeon puzzles, and defeat monsters.
A decision desk that rates 100 paid apps YES, KINDA, or NOT REALLY according to the real cost of self-hosting them.
An Indonesian-language historical research project about Salido’s colonial gold mines, VOC archives, maritime routes, and the Cingkuk site.
A volunteer platform lets people report earthquake damage by submitting building details and photographs for remote review by civil engineers and architects.
A playable tower-management simulation where you stack offices, homes, hotels, cinemas, shops, elevators, and parking across a hundred storeys.
A feature screenplay about a grieving man who builds a message on nickel plates for anything that might exist ten thousand years from now.
An interactive essay tracing artificial intelligence from symbolic systems in 1972 to the agent era, while explaining neural networks, transformers, training, labs, and compute infrastructure.
A reported investigation into how small human-services nonprofits lose reimbursement for care they delivered but failed to document.
A browser-based planner for drawing underfloor-heating zones and generating pipe layouts, circuit lengths, and heat-output estimates.
A genealogy and heritage-travel service that traces Ukrainian family origins, visits ancestral villages on film, and guides descendants on private journeys.
A lovingly maintained fan archive for the obscure 1987 direct-to-video action film Vector Zero.
Vilanel is a C++ 3D game engine for Vulkan, with its own renderer, dockable editor, node graph, physics, animation, audio, and asset pipeline.
An open-source raised garden bed whose canopy is also a working solar panel, with plans for irrigation, sensing, and power generation.
Weft is an open-source, self-hosted execution ledger for autonomous coding agents, combining concurrent work, signed provenance, scoped capabilities, and machine-checkable evidence before changes land.
An independent magazine of fashion, culture, gossip, and behind-the-scenes dispatches from a vividly imagined animal drag scene.
An interactive railway atlas covering 1,250 notable passenger routes across 120 countries.
A searchable historical archive of 140 nineteenth-century wrench patents, organized by date, inventor, type, and mechanical idea.
A Mac app that turns a product page into an ad campaign, then checks its claims, platform limits, audiences, exclusions, and measurement plan before launch.
An interactive portfolio spanning architecture, industrial design, branding, creative technology, and digital experiences.
A free Spokane County assistant that connects people with food banks, shelters, utility help, health care, legal aid, crisis support, and other community services.
An accessibility-focused text-world revival that lets players explore four realms, fight, craft, join factions, and play through an iPad or a terminal.
Auxi's public journal documents open machine-learning experiments on alternative neural-network substrates, with pre-registered runs and linked whitepapers.