Toys for thinking about teams.

Interactive explorers and small tools for engineering leaders.

What shape is your team in?Three questions about your team, and how its shape echoes from one person outward.Steering with a lagStaff a team for a year on month-old numbers, with hires who join 2 months later.Problems that don't stay solvedOrder that lasts only while something flows through it, and why one-off fixes fade.Chance of doneA weather forecast for your backlog, and the storms your history never saw.Trust has neighborsA grid of players learning whom to trust, one neighbor at a time.Teams in motionBusy teams circling each other, and what it takes to break the loop.Stop starting, start finishingTwo teams, same people, same work. The one that starts less finishes more.

Just for fun

No lesson attached. Things I made for the fun of it.

Buzzword weatherEngineering buzzwords and their weather, from two years of Hacker News chatter.FirefliesA field of fireflies, each on its own rhythm, finding the beat together.256 tiny universesDrag through all 256 elementary cellular automata and watch order turn into chaos.Pelican APIEvery "pelican riding a bicycle" Simon Willison has posted, and which AI drew it.