Things I’ve been building, mostly on nights and weekends. A few are public. Several run on a server in my house and aren’t reachable from the open internet. Links below say whether they open a website you can visit or a source repository you can explore.
Websites to visit
Declaration of Innovation — An open, remixable community charter for groups that gather to make, and make things better. Visit website · Source code
Weird Al Stylebook — A static editorial-style site built from a mockup, with a client-side grammar checker on the second page. Visit website · Source code
Source code to explore
These links open repositories, not hosted demos. Setup details and access depend on the repository.
Ask The Aux — A shared-device party game. The group answers one prompt with songs and ends up with a playlist and a round recap. Source code
Public Art Map — original experiment — The earlier Instagram-and-spreadsheet map. Original source code. The later home-hosted version is described below.
gautsch.org — This site. A weekly essay, each one with its own design. Source code for this website
At home and personal experiments
These are descriptions of personal projects, with no public demo offered here.
Public Art Map — home version — A mobile photo feed and map seeded from Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap, focused on Atlanta. The original repository above is a different implementation.
Google Reader 2026 — The RSS reader I missed. Add a feed, press j and k to move through it, m to toggle read. Categories, a phone reading view, and one-key clipping into Obsidian.
WhisperSync — An audiobook player that transcribes with Whisper and keeps the transcript scrolling in sync with the audio. Search across segments, bookmarks, speed control.
Avian Visitors Companion — Records the backyard, runs the clips through BirdNET, and keeps a dashboard of what’s been singing. Thirty-seven species so far.
Comic Generator — Turns a text file into a three-panel comic strip. A cartoon universe is a JSON pack plus a folder of reference art, not code.
Murphy Makes Math — Printable first-grade math worksheets built on the things my son already likes: comics, stories, and drawing.
Tour de Sacs — A walking and biking game that turns the cul-de-sacs in my neighborhood into collectibles. Blocked mostly by Atlanta summer heat.
LEGO Library — A photo catalog of finished builds, one slideshow per set.
Library of Everything — A Jellyfin media library that generates a note for every show and album it takes in.
Home Lab — The Docker and Caddy stack most of the unlinked projects above actually run on.
Machine Sync — Syncthing keeping project folders in step across machines. Peer to peer, no cloud, no admin rights required.