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Mission Control

0 on station · panel offline

HQ FLAG LABDOTCTOOLSARCADETHE LAB

listening for signals…

The Arcade

29 arcade gamesExplore all

Formworks

Small shapes. Big systems.

Balloon Blitz

Kart racing + balloon battles

Rocket Rally

Live 3D car soccer

Downhill

3D snowboarding

Dead Signal

Find a way off the Meridian.

Lights

An after-hours motion experiment.

Made by / House

Woodwork, travel photographs, and art for your home.

Beer-flight paddles

Woodwork

From the workshop.

Flight paddles, furniture, and the projects in between.

Explore the workshop

A narrow canal and arched stone bridge beside warm plaster buildings with green shutters.

Canal Light · Italy

Photographs

Through the lens.

Places, details, and moments collected along the way.

See the photographs

Solar Interval

Art prints

For the walls.

Color, shape, and texture in a growing print collection.

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Latest from the Lab

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Connecting My Local AI to GrowthBook with MCP (Part 6)

Sep 06, 2026 · 6 min

Part 6 of the self-hosting series: connecting Ollama chat to GrowthBook through a Docker MCP server, with flag evaluation, Cloudflare Tunnel routing, and tool calls in Pages Functions.

#mcp#docker#ollama#ai#cloudflare-tunnel

One Hostname, Two Origins: Cloudflare Load Balancer Cutover

Sep 04, 2026 · 11 min

Moving a platform onto new infrastructure without changing the hostname everyone already uses. I built the two-origin version on my own domain first, with Cloudflare Load Balancing, two Docker containers and a pair of tunnels, so the cutover is a config change at the edge that reverses in seconds.

#cloudflare#load-balancing#cloudflare-tunnel#docker#nginx

A Real Drum for a Browser Rhythm Game (ESP32 + Web Serial)

Aug 11, 2026 · 8 min

Rhythm Hands is a little browser rhythm game I built for my kid. This post wires a physical drum to it: a piezo sensor on an ESP32 DevKit, a threshold-and-debounce sketch, and Web Serial reading hit events straight into the game with no server in between. Includes the two bugs that ate the afternoon.

#esp32#web-serial#piezo#arduino#arduino-cli

Developer Tools

Neon GPT

No-login AI chat

k8s exam prep

KCNA · CKA · CKAD quizzes

LinkedIn Cards

AI-drafted post images

Matrix Sim

ESP32 LED clock faces

Flag Lab

GrowthBook flags on the dots

Kubectl

Kubernetes playground

Validators

YAML, JSON, configs

Formatters

Pretty print code

Encoders

Base64, URL, hashes

Converters

Timestamps, units, colors

YAML Lint

Validate & clean YAML

Generators

UUIDs, passwords, keys