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p[ai]tterns — AI UX Pattern Library
118 interaction patterns of the machine-intelligence era — indexed by an original eight-family taxonomy, cross-filed, and demonstrated live: what each pattern does, when it backfires, who runs it, and what it pairs with.
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Data Visualization
A living library of 62 chart forms: what each is for, when it works, and the moment it stops working, with a selection wizard that flips its recommendation as your data grows. Hand-built SVG throughout, no chart libraries.
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Defender — A Forensic Reconstruction of the 1981 Arcade Game
Williams' hardest game, rebuilt from the recovered 6809 source and the Red Label ROMs — every constant traced to a byte, every rule argued over by adversarial agents before a line was written. Plays in the browser. No coins.
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Sacred Geometry — Hand-Drawn Compass & Straightedge Constructions
Compass-and-straightedge studies from the working journals — polyhedral compounds, snub dodecahedron constructions, star polygons, and the classical plane figures — drawn by hand and filmed in timelapse. The practice the Lab grew out of.
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The Mighty Heptadecagon — A 2,000-Year Construction, Step by Step
Gauss's seventeen-gon: the problem of antiquity, the Fermat-prime mathematics in layers, and all 51 compass-and-straightedge moves drawn live on screen — alongside the hand-inked drawings, failed attempts included, that started it.
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Squaring the Circle — Four Beautiful Failures, Drawn Live
The 2,300-year impossibility: Leonardo's rolling wheel, Kochański's tangent, Ramanujan's 355⁄113, and Grant's golden π — every compass move animated, every error measured to the nanometer, and the 1882 theorem that ended the chase.
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Elenchus — Adversarial AI Forensics
No single model gets to declare fraud. Every anomaly is argued by a tribunal — Skeptic, Advocate, Forensic Quant, Regulatory Eye, Polymath — and only the findings that survive cross-examination reach the investigator, sealed into court-defensible evidence chains. 600+ forensic markers, 18 fraud signatures, ~311K lines of Python, 10,100+ automated tests. Designed and built solo, directing AI agents as the engineering team.
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The One-Day Redesign — A Full Site, Plan to Deploy, in a Day
A litmus test against the clock: take a real company's public site and run planning, design, build, revision, testing and deployment through to a deployable result inside a single day — working only from public material, with no brief, no kickoff, and no contact with anyone at the company. Six pages rebuilt, a 14-page capabilities statement regenerated, and an honest account of what a day buys and what it cannot.
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The Secrets of the Pyramids and the Ancient Sites — The Great Pyramid, Measured
The Great Pyramid to the millimeter, then everything school left out: fifteen constants in one fraction, the cubit, the foot and the meter as one system, eight faces at the equinox, Orion on the plateau, Leonardo's blueprint on his own sheet, the rooms found by muons and the ones still predicted, a chamber built on three-four-five with 36 decans on its walls, and the latitude that spells the speed of light. Sixteen live figures recomputed from Petrie's 1883 survey.
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