Playground

I work on several projects at once, most of them on Vercel, and every push meant 30 seconds to a minute of checking back.

Deploybell polls the deployments every 5 seconds with a Vercel token and plays one sound on success, another on failure. The menu bar shows each project’s latest status. It is native to macOS, and open source.

In a drama class at CMU, learning lines was my nightmare: alone there is no one to read the other parts, and scanned scripts barely give up their text.

Gemini turns a PDF into characters, lines and actions, and MiniMax reads each role in its own voice. Pick your role and a range of lines, then choose how much help you get: the whole line, its first word, its length, or nothing. To keep a small, cheap model reliable, it leaves splitting scenes to you.

It became a teaching resource for the class.

That summer, at an HCI lab, I learned electronics from ChatGPT, and noticed its long answers slipping past me without a trace.

RotFix counts the turns of a chat. At the limit it locks the box until you write a reflection. An LLM grades it pass, thoughtful or fail, and a thoughtful one comes back with a follow-up question.

Shooting Star was Nik’s puppy, and we made the game in his memory. You can walk with him, talk to him and play fetch. His day and his seasons follow the real world, and an LLM persona remembers your moods and stories.

Later that summer I built a backend to test which parts of the game state to give the model, so the conversation feels true to the place you are in.

A 3D platformer where pearls race each other out of the cup, through fruit and ice, with squishy, jelly-like controls. Five of us made it in Unity in 48 hours.

I worked on the concept, 3D models, levels, sound, development and testing.