Projects and experiments

Things I've made, maintained, contributed to, and tried. Some are useful tools, some are creative experiments, and some never quite became what I imagined.

This is a map into the garden, not a list of currently maintained services. Some of the linked pages haven't been planted yet.

Wikipedia and Wikidata

• WP1 - Wikipedia article assessments, selections, and offline collections. I rewrote the bot and portal in 2018 and have been maintaining it since.
• Projo - Finding useful Wikipedia editing and review work, as well as New Pages Patrol tools.
• findlinkfast - Finding unlinked mentions and reviewing proposed Wikipedia links. It's a rewrite of Edward Betts's find link.
• linkrecnext - Link recommendations from other language editions. My fork of Martin Gerlach's tool.
• CiteWright - Turning Wikipedia citation templates into Wikidata references. A Wikipedia "user script".
• langpow - Faster language selection for monolingual-text values on Wikidata. Another "user script".
• linkdata - Reusable datasets about Wikipedia's link graph.
• Global Selection Picker - A portable format and picker for lists of Wikimedia pages. Used by projo, findlinkfast and linkrecnext. And hopefully soon to be used by WP1
• Wikipedia event calendar script - Adding Wikipedia events to a personal calendar. Another "user script".
• Pride article suggestions - Preparing article worklists about LGBTQ publications and media. This was the original inspiration that became projo.

Music and publishing

• Danger Third Rail - My recording project, songs, and releases. My "band", but it's only me.
• The song and demo archive - Songs, demos, and the software behind songs.travisbriggs.com.
• Null Rail - AI-generated music experiments along with their alternate versions and process notes.
• Danger Third Rail Radio - My radio station! Broadcasting all my songs on [songs.travisbriggs.com](https://songs.travisbriggs.com] with Godot-generated visuals.
• Rainfall - Music-site publishing software that grew out of my own song archive. Deprecated.
• Best Albums in the Universe - A curated album collection and its publishing tools.

Instruments and audio experiments

• Lambda Sequencer - A modular browser MIDI sequencer with patch cables and portable patches.
• arpsplit - A Max for Live device that distributes incoming notes across MIDI channels.
• Remapperator - A Max for Live MIDI-remapping utility.
• Web LPD8 - A browser-based editor for an Akai LPD8 MIDI controller.
• Vape Station - A JUCE synthesizer prototype.
• Infinite Radio - Experiments with phrase-aligned jumps, indefinite playback, and audio mashups.
• Neural Noise - Earlier machine-learning experiments generating music from ABC notation. Pre-dates LLMs, using a technique called a chaRNN (Character Recurrent Neural Network).

Art and playful websites

• Wobblewerk - A constrained sketching instrument with procedural marks and opinionated palettes. Based on my own sketches. Vibe coded.
• Digital artwork gallery - Browser animations and artwork, sometimes accompanied by original music. These all pre-date LLMs by about a decade and were coded from scratch (and it shows!)
• vxstory - A collection of parameterized generative-video models built with Godot. Vibe coded.
• Dada Quest - My first major vibe coded project. A text adventure with "unlimited possibilites", Dungeons and Dragons style. Uses an LLM storyteller.
• Endless Yard Sale - A site that I originally coded from hand that used Gemini 2 to classify images and generate keywords to search for related items. I'm an eBay affiliate with this one technically.
• Two Truths and a Lie: Billboard Edition - Guessing which tech billboard is fictional.
• RGB Of Life - Twenty-four simultaneous Games of Life combined into RGB colors. Made over a decade ago with lots of help from my friend Sagar.
• Slop Culture and Slopulate - Generative-art apparel, curation, and print-on-demand software. https://theslopculture.com.

AI and generative experiments

• Sudomake Friends - Imaginary AI friends with personalities and schedules, interacting through Telegram.
• Robagonist - Two language models debating a statement, with room to intervene.
• ZIM-N-WARC-GPT - A fork of WARC-GPT adding ZIM files as material for retrieval-augmented generation. This never really worked.
• Wallpaper generator - Generating and curating AI-image wallpaper candidates.

Games and game systems

• Q Poker - An online poker prototype and experiments with poker bots.
• Video-poker trainer - Exploring video-poker decisions and strategy.
• Crate Diggers - A music party game played through Delta Chat.
• Don't Wordle solver - Optimizing guesses for a game where the usual Wordle objective is reversed.
• Ruby Tanbo - An implementation of the strategy game Tanbo, including a computer opponent. This was my first ever project in Ruby!
• Butterfly Catcher - An early Pygame learning project. My first and only.
• Whiskeyball - The game-loop software I wrote for a physical skee-ball-like game. Part of my cocktail robotics adventures!
• Tiny Nomic - An online game about changing its own rules. Played through GitHub.
• Scriptslash - An API-only game experiment that became more infrastructure than game.
• Invertavera - A Music Hack Day game about spotting authentic artist biographies.

Tools and the small web

• Gemdown - Javascript library for converting Markdown into Gemini Gemtext.
• This digital garden - The publishing system, local CMS, and connected notes behind this site.
• 0bt - A file-sharing implementation combining HTTP downloads, torrents, and magnet links.
• ismygem.online - A Gemini uptime-monitoring project.
• Actomasto - Project suggestions, personal briefings, and Mastodon drafts from development activity; it does not publish posts.
• Court Version Scraper - Tracking court ECF software versions from PACER listings.
• Google Books sync - Moving books from Calibre to Google Play Books and Amazon Kindle.

Public knowledge and community

• Chronoscope - A zoomable human-history timeline built from Wikidata. A project with a student I was tutoring.
• ArtChart - Mapping the locations of artworks, with companion Wikipedia data tooling. Hand coded, never really looked right.
• San Francisco 311 Index - A civic-data satire using neighborhood complaint rates.
• Kiwix - My contributions to offline knowledge, including mwoffliner.
• Google Summer of Code mentoring - Helping contributors work on Wikimedia and offline-knowledge software.
• Noisebridge programming classes - Teaching Python and developing a programming study-group curriculum.
• Wiki Bay Area - Wikimedia community organizing, I'm on the board.

Writing and developed ideas

• Poetry and fiction fragments - The existing collection of poems and short-fiction beginnings.
• Duality and Taper experiments - Small HTML art and writing experiments.
• NaNoGenMo experiments - Code for generating fiction, rather than a claim to a finished novel. This predates LLMs people!
• Space Base Race - A multiplayer game concept about exploration versus exploitation.
• Factorio as a MUD - An unrealized text-based factory-game idea and an initial setup experiment.
• Super Progress Bar Pro - An idle-game idea.

The ideas belong here too. A project doesn't have to be finished, useful, or still running to have an interesting story.