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Build log, sprint updates, and what we’re shipping.

February 9, 2025

ChartSlice: A Tiny Data Viz for Week 1 of the Spring Into AI Build Sprint

Week 1 of the Spring Into AI Build Sprint — a small interactive bar chart with a category filter. React, Vite, Recharts.

February 9, 2026

Skill Directory: Discovery for Agent Skills — Week 2 of the Spring Into AI Build Sprint

Week 2 — a directory + API so agents (and humans) can discover Agent Skills. Next.js, JSON API, sprint-helper + Crypto Market shout-out.

February 24, 2026

Memory Palace — Week 3 of the Spring Into AI Build Sprint

Week 3 — interactive tutorials. An AI Memory Palace: pick a room (or your photo), say what to remember, explore and quiz. Method of Loci, 60s challenge, share links.

March 9, 2026

Palace Radio — Week 4 of the Spring Into AI Build Sprint (Soundwave)

Week 4 — Soundwave. One broadcast, three ways to receive it: the Keeper guides you through the palace, with spatial audio, cipher (numbers station) mode, and shareable broadcast links.

June 22, 2026

Dependency Day — A Strategy Puzzle Where Independence Is the Win Condition

Summer Into AI, Week 2. Cut the Crown’s supply lines so colonies disconnect and independence cascades — then secure each free state before it’s re-garrisoned. Self-contained canvas game.

June 23, 2026

SOLO — Teaching a Neural Network to Fly, From Scratch

A real neural net hand-written in one file (no libraries) learns to fly — by cloning your piloting, or by teaching itself with no teacher at all. Then it solos a course it’s never seen.

June 25, 2026

Murmuration — A Flock With No Leader vs. One Crown

A live starling flock where order emerges from the bottom up. Strike a free bird and it routes around the loss; strike the Crown and the whole sky falls. Independence as architecture.

June 25, 2026

Liberty Engine — An Anthem With No Conductor

A self-playing anthem built from scratch with the Web Audio API. Six independent voices, each on its own loop length, that never quite realign. Mute any one and the rest play on.

June 25, 2026

Self-Evident — A GPT Built From Scratch That Trains Itself Live in the Browser

A real char-level GPT — attention, hand-written backprop, AdamW — in one file, no libraries, no API. Starts as noise and teaches itself the voice of 1776 while you watch. With a built-in gradient check.

June 28, 2026

Emergent Revolution — 13 AI Colonies That Teach Themselves to Be Free

Thirteen reinforcement-learning agents, hand-written from scratch, learn from incentives alone whether to stay loyal or revolt. Independence isn’t scripted here — it’s a learned equilibrium.

June 28, 2026

Sovereign — A Union No King Can Stamp and No One Can Forge

Independence as real cryptography. Thirteen colonies each generate an ECDSA key in your browser and sign a tamper-evident union — no server, no central authority. Forge one signature and the chain rejects it.

June 28, 2026

Perpetual Union — A Million Points of Light That Hold One Flag

The graphics finale: a real-time GPU particle system where ~1,000,000 independent points, with no central control, hold the waving flag — tear them apart and they re-form on their own. Out of many, one.

July 5, 2026

The Broadside — The Government Never Sent You a Receipt. So I Built One.

Summer Into AI, Week 3 (Data.Punk). The government spent $7,009,973,667,049 on your behalf last year and never itemized it. Type what you paid in federal tax and this prints your receipt — to the dollar, live from the U.S. Treasury’s own API — including how much went just to interest (more than the military) and the 34¢ of every dollar borrowed in your name.

June 29, 2026

White Nose — Watching a Federal Bat Plague Spread Across America

Summer Into AI, Week 3 (Data.Punk). An animated map of white-nose syndrome — built on real USGS data the government tracked county by county and never let you watch. 555 counties, 13 winters, out of one cave to the whole continent.

June 30, 2026

Biosphere — A Living 3-D Earth Built From the Federal Data Nobody Made Beautiful

Summer Into AI, Week 3 (Data.Punk). A rotatable 3-D Earth with 11 live federal data layers — ~9,000 river gauges reporting live, earthquakes, wildfires, the aurora, a century of hurricanes — day/night city lights, a time-machine, and a cinematic tour. The planet as the instruments see it.

July 5, 2026

Glass Box — A Neural Network Built From Scratch That Learns "Is Your Degree Worth It?" on Live Federal Data

Summer Into AI, Week 3 (Data.Punk). Everyone else queried the government’s data with an LLM; I trained a model on it. A hand-written neural net (no libraries) learns to predict graduate earnings from real US Dept. of Education data, live in the browser — every neuron visible, the math gradient-checked, R² ≈ 0.70.

July 9, 2026

Palace Radio: Signal Station — A Walkable 3-D Memory Palace That Grows the Details It Narrates

Summer Into AI, Week 4 (Built on Yesterday, the final week). I rebuilt my own Spring Into AI build from the studs: a real walkable 3-D memory palace, a real downloadable broadcast voice, and — after live testing kept catching a real mismatch — furniture that actually grows the vivid detail the AI narrates, not just an icon nearby.

July 11, 2026

More Perfect — A Million Sovereign Points That Hold Whatever You Commit to Them

Summer Into AI, Week 4 (Built on Yesterday), my second entry. Two weeks ago I made about a million GPU particles hold one fixed flag. This week I let them hold anything you type — commit a word to the union and the crowd of independent points forms it, tear it apart and it re-forms on its own.

July 12, 2026

Midnight Machine — I Gave the British a Brain

Summer Into AI, Week 4 (Built on Yesterday), my third entry. I took Adam's Paul Revere arcade game and built on it: his redcoats spawn at random, so I wrote a from-scratch learning model (no libraries) that watches how you ride, predicts your next lane, and spawns the redcoats there. You can watch it think — and freeze it to prove it's real.