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Not here to play nice

Disruption is the feature—loud by design
Carbon Trace visual experience following a diamond metaphor through pressure, bias, and transformation toward becoming
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Carbon Trace

WeCoded 2026 Winner

Built to turn a personal story about gender bias, endurance, and becoming into something people can feel rather than just understand intellectually.

Canvas 2DPrimary Rendering Layer
PixiJSDisplacement Effects
GSAPScene Timelines
Howler.jsLayered Audio
Unearthed application interface tracing electricity from a user's address to the coal mine feeding their grid
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Unearthed

To connect electricity consumers with the human and environmental costs of coal mining by naming the mine, operator, and accident history behind every light switch.

Snowflake CortexAI Query Engine
SvelteKit 2Frontend Framework
FastAPIBackend API
Google Cloud RunRuntime
Hotfix the dragon smelting an uploaded legacy-code screenshot into molten slag while generating a structured incident report
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Legacy Smelter

Built for the DEV April Fools Challenge to turn legacy-code frustration into a shared, funny incident-management experience.

React 19Frontend Framework
Tailwind CSS v4Styling
PixiJS 8Dragon Animation
Howler.jsAudio
System Notes project dashboard showing AI-generated portfolio entries and architecture decisions
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System Notes

Built to satisfy a required challenge deliverable and used as a controlled AI experiment with Antigravity.

Gemini 3 ProThe Architect
AntigravityOrchestration Layer
Google Cloud RunRuntime
ChatGPTThe Manager
SupaScribe Notes app interface showing structured note card generation powered by AI and Supabase
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SupaScribe Notes

To reduce the friction between capture and clarity while enforcing a consistent note schema when working in ChatGPT.

SupabaseThe Database
PostgresStorage
Edge FunctionsLogic Layer
OpenAI APIIntelligence
DEV Community Dashboard interface showing prioritized posts and signal-based interaction metrics
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DEV Community Dashboard

To make it easier for volunteers to see which posts may benefit from engagement when normal feeds prioritize recency and popularity.

Forem APIData Source
Node.jsApplication Runtime
TypeScriptLanguage
Cloud RunDeployment Platform
Awesome GitHub Copilot repository banner listing curated AI workflows and agent patterns
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Awesome Copilot

A place for GitHub Copilot tools and patterns that earned their keep instead of just sounding clever.

MarkdownThe Format
GitHub CopilotThe Platform
MCPAgent Protocols
Manual CurationQuality Control
Dev.to Mirror workflow diagram showing automated syncing of technical blogs for AI ingestion
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Dev.to Mirror

To make long-form technical writing legible to AI systems.

PythonThe Script
GitHub ActionsThe Cron
GitHub PagesThe Host
AI DiscoverabilityThe Goal
RAI Lint banner enforcing explicit AI attribution in git commits and workflows
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RAI Lint

To make AI usage explicit and enforceable instead of implied and ignored.

TypeScriptRule Logic
PythonRule Logic
commitlintNode Enforcement
gitlintPython Enforcement
Hermes Agent interface showing local AI memory experiments and conversational history
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Hermes Agent

A zero-stakes environment to experiment with memory and agent behavior for a personal local AI system.

PythonThe Mind
OllamaThe Engine
PostgreSQLLong-term Memory
LocalThe Environment
Delegate Action GitHub workflow allowing secure AI-generated pull requests via personal access tokens
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Delegate Action

Placeholder solution until Copilot coding agent supports valid user PAT tokens via CLI in GitHub Actions.

GitHub ActionsThe Runtime
Node.jsLogic Layer
SecurityInjection Detection
PATAuth Shortcut
Underfoot travel planner interface showing AI-orchestrated discovery of hidden travel destinations
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Underfoot Travel

To explore AI orchestration and narrative synthesis using a real-world travel discovery problem.

PythonThe Orchestrator
SupabaseThe Brain
ReactThe Face
Data IngestionSourcing
Echo ESLint configuration banner representing reusable linting boundaries for AI coding agents
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Echo ESLint

To provide AI strict, reusable formatting and linting constraints across projects.

Node.jsEcosystem
ESLintThe Enforcer
JestVerification
SonarStatic Analysis
Copilot Chat Extension interface showing an experimental portable chat context for IDEs
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Copilot Chat Extension

To test whether Copilot chat context could persist across environments.

Copilot ChatThe Constraint
JavaScriptThe Glue
FailureThe Lesson