Claude Developer Misery Index

A real-time dashboard tracking how miserable developers are when Claude AI goes down. Combines official Anthropic status page data, incident history, Reddit and Bluesky social chatter into a single 0-10 misery score.

How it started:

• Simple status page scraper with a numeric score
• Single social signal source with basic keyword matching

Where it is now:

• Four data sources — status page, incidents, Reddit, and Bluesky
• Discord bot fetches all sources (Reddit, Bluesky, status page), calculates score, and alerts on level changes
• Multi-layer post filtering to avoid false positives (exclusion patterns, signal tiering, proximity checks)
• Data refreshed every 15 minutes, pushed to an orphan branch
• History chart with time range toggles (24h / 3d / 7d)
• Light/dark theme with misery-level visual escalation (screen shake at apocalypse level)

SnapLayout

A free, mobile-friendly room layout planner. Import a floorplan image (or draw rooms from scratch), set the scale, and drag and drop furniture with real-world dimensions. No sign-up required.

How it started:

• Basic canvas with draggable furniture rectangles
• Simple image import for floorplan backgrounds

Where it is now:

• Scale calibration — draw a line between known points and enter the real distance
• Wall drawing tool for creating rooms from scratch
• Furniture library across 6 categories with real dimensions (in/ft/cm/m)
• Z-ordering, undo/redo, keyboard shortcuts, snap-to-grid
• Export to PNG at 2x resolution
• Auto-saves to localStorage

Beamlab

A daily laser puzzle. Place mirrors and beam splitters on a 6x6 grid to route a laser beam from the source to all targets. Fewer pieces = better score.

How it started:

• Basic mirror placement (/ and \) with a single laser source and target
• Simple brute-force puzzle generation
• Tap-to-cycle interaction for piece types

How it evolved:

• Added beam splitters that split the laser into two paths, each needing its own target
• Splitters now have two rotatable orientations — tap to flip which direction they reflect
• Pre-placed gold "fixed" mirrors that constrain the puzzle and can't be moved
• Optional gem collectibles that require creative detours from the main solution
• Walls-first generation algorithm with recursive backtracking for natural difficulty scaling
• Beam-aware solver with inventory-based pruning for fast validation
• Multiprocessed puzzle regeneration leveraging all CPU cores

Where it is now:

• 365 daily puzzles across three difficulty tiers (medium, hard, expert)
• Scoring system: Brilliant / Focused / Aligned / Scattered / Refracted
• Daily streaks, shareable results, and gem collection stats

Parsed

A daily code puzzle. Swap scrambled tokens in a buggy program to make it produce the correct output. Think Wordle meets debugging.

How it started:

• Simple token-swapping on short code snippets
• Basic interpreter for arithmetic and variable assignments
• Static puzzle set with manual difficulty tuning

How it evolved:

• Full pseudo-interpreter supporting for loops, while loops, if/else, and nested logic
• Themed puzzles with real-world narratives — counting inventory, tracking scores, managing budgets
• Execution animation that plays through each step with inline variable annotations
• Themed scene strips with emoji progress bars driven by the code's key variable
• Tappable code lines for step-by-step explanations after solving
• Automated verification pipeline checking solvability, narrative consistency, and duplicate detection

Where it is now:

• 365 daily puzzles across medium and hard tiers with six programming concepts
• Scoring system: Genius / Hacker / Optimized / Compiled / Verbose / Spaghetti
• Daily streaks, shareable results, and walkthrough replays