A small, durable static archive holding the recovered music of a late friend.
Vanessa the Musician is a memorial archive I built to gather and share the recovered music of Vanessa, a friend and musician from the early-2000s Eurodance scene. It pairs a music catalog with a companion site that remembers the online forum community where she and the rest of us first met. Mostly it is an effort to help a small body of work last a while longer: 86 recovered tracks given homes, lyrics, album context, and a player that stays out of the way.
The catalog is a fully static site. Track, album, and singles data live in plain JSON, and every page is rendered at build time, so there is no backend, database, or account system that needs tending over the years. A site-wide audio player keeps playing across page navigations using View Transitions, with click-to-play wiring that comes straight from the data files. A companion site remembers the era and the forum community using only first names and usernames people shared themselves, never surnames or private details.
A real-time Japan earthquake monitor I help support, host, and tinker with.
Snap the scoreboard and let an AI read the scores: a little pinball score tracker with cloud sync.
A cluster of self-built tools for learning Japanese: kanji graphs, vocab ladders, tiles.