jrb20 — pet projects

New learnings article: how a hundred AI-made songs became a printed book, from backing up the songs and five agents curating to the LaTeX detour, the HTML edition and the finished 10×10 and 5×5 editions. 36 screenshots; page marked noindex.

v1.7: the 100 Songs Later songbook is online at the address printed on its cover. A reading view with a 10×10 / 5×5 switch, page turning and per-edition PDFs, behind the studio password (deployment 18c9fc4e).

Channel demo grows up: Dial, Tuner and List behind one button, a power button, spoken channel IDs and song intros, kids shows on every channel, lock-screen and AirPods controls, and the full catalog of 5,486 episodes.

Channel demo with a turning dial: soundbites while you turn, the channel plays when you let go; long guides with every song and 3,468 minis, a two-column list and a Jingle Lab channel. Main player: static fixes and every rendered mini in the catalog.

Mindful Minute Radio is now Groove Dial. This address stays live and received the final fixes (admin controls visible, direction arrows, spotlight lens) and is archived; the card moved to the Archived section.

Groove Dial (deployment ae53264f): the radio is renamed and lives at its own address. It keeps everything from Mindful Minute Radio and adds the numbered dial with permanent channel numbers and names, genre rows with open-licensed music, stories and poems, soundbite scrubbing, day and night mode, a lens bar, and five station-ID lines. Mindful Minute stays the short mindful episodes.

Song intros v1 (deployment c70914db): 330 short spoken 'Next up' intros added beside the songs as audio/NNN-intro.mp3 with a map in data/song-intros.json, written from each song's style block and playlist and rendered with Kokoro. Additive only; Mindful Minute Radio now plays an intro and then the song. Future work (play-intro toggle in this player, hand-tuned intros, a Tamil-capable voice) is listed in the Project Log.

First push of Mindful Minute Radio (deployment bcefbef9): a 24/7 personal radio with a glass tuner dial across Focus, Low energy, High energy and Commute, more than 360 programs, skins, landscape mode and tap-to-change logos. Preview songs and podcasts are placeholders; nothing tagged Private is included.

Mindful Minute v0.07 (deployments 4a7759d5 and 26384ccf): a new player with a pull-up shelf, favorites with reasons, walk mode, a spoken next-track lead-in and a source filter, plus 600 new episodes from two more writers, 1,167 in all, every one with audio and read-along.

Mindful Minute v0.04 (deployment 22980c68): audio with word-by-word read-along now covers all 567 episodes, and the guest playlist lists seven episodes.

Mindful Minute v0.03 (deployment 5330e6dc): a guest playlist page for sharing selected episodes, and audio with word-by-word read-along for episodes 1–266.

New learnings article: how The Mindful Minute was made, from the reasons for short reflective episodes on walks and the sources behind them to the seasons, the companion player and the tech learnings. Eight visuals; page marked noindex.

Mindful Minute v0.02 (deployment 10749661): all 567 episodes listed, and audio with word-by-word read-along for episodes 1–250.

New: Mindful Minute v0.01, a mobile podcast player with word-by-word read-along; five episodes with audio.

Card rain update (deployment 5bbabd19): tilt your phone to steer the rain (sideways for wind, tip forward to speed it up), and a smoother card flip.

New welcome overlay on the main page (deployment f35a3cdc): four ways in (the All I Need Music collection, A.R. Rahman, the digital books, and Card rain), with ✕, a don't-show-again option and a ✦ More button to reopen. Album links and printed QR codes skip it.

Card rain (deployment 30bade26): all 294 fold cards rain down as you scroll; tap to catch, tap again to turn over, play on YouTube Music; auto rain, a tuning panel, and Cover Flow by year on a sideways swipe.

Print-books article grows: Every Frame vol 1–4 covers and a spread gallery; the A.R. Rahman book's seven editions shown to scale with deep links per size and page; new sections on Music cards – pilot (6 × 4 fold cards by ChatGPT, Grok and Claude) and the Fav Songs Listening Guide (immersive 8 × 8 / 5 × 5 books, frame filtering, printer test page, edit-and-swap before export). Flip galleries; pages marked noindex.

A.R. Rahman digital book: page links (deployment fd86fdfa). The viewer's address now shows the page you're on (#page=5, #page=cover) and updates as you flip; size switches keep your place; old #at= links still work. Back links between the books' galleries.

Leaner site + digital books (deployment ae55d81f): shared covers generated at deploy (1200/400 px), duplicates removed (368 → 105 MB site), A.R. Rahman digital editions gallery at /arr/book/ (7 sizes and layouts), the v1 book online at /book/, and private noindex backups of high-quality covers and the printed books' pages.

ARR /arr/ QA push (deployment 3b8e8300): book 156 with 10 new albums (H-107–H-114, T-188–T-189); wallpaper cover-alts (98 albums / 113 keepers) for Play random primary|alt. Stage 509 files · 278M. Existing H/T IDs unchanged.

Cardsmith v5 joins Print Studio: CSV decks become folding concept cards, plus All I Need · Album Cards for album fold cards with album-page and YouTube Music QRs.

WIP card: digital Midjourney style catalog (436 styles, eight books) live on Cloudflare; star/group UX and mobile collapsible menu.

Play / wallpaper overlay (deployment 9dc74618): fullscreen cover gallery with Transition, Rhythm, Pause, Debug; Browse filters apply. Public stage only — 237 files, 73M; album IDs unchanged.

Timeline rework (deployment 27984c8a): fixed decade/year columns, Hindi above / Tamil below, wrap stacks with sideways scroll. Public stage only — 237 files, 73M; no private crawl/print/scripts.

Reconciled 118 Apple Books purchases: removed samples, added eight new titles with NEW tags, and packaged nine manual covers for legacy listings (deployment f6f293a8).

New Learnings tab, first version. Making print books (Chatbooks): a long, printable page with 11 screenshots, from the ChatGPT v0.5 backstory to the Every Frame and All I Need Music books. The same text is a skill agents follow (SKILL.md). Project cards now sort most recently updated first. Temporary passcode gate.

First full catalog live (deployment b3031044): Browse · Timeline · Lookup, 234 albums with max-res covers, album pages with YTM/YouTube/lyric links, prev/next by ID, and the book URL contract (/?album=T-053 and /a/T-053). Temporary passcode gate. Shell URL claimed earlier with Claude.

Clip numbers and short links: every video carries its permanent number, the same #0001–#2719 printed in the Every Frame books. Open a clip with ?video=123, the /v finder page, or /v/123. Cards, stills and the lightbox show the book number, and the lightbox has a Copy short link button. Existing card and URL retained.

Expanded the existing site with an Alternate Narratives section: the V2 editorial arc, five V3 long-form readers, and four square HTML book proofs. Added a navigation path from Act JRB20 while retaining the existing project card and URL.

Print Composer, Contact Sheet Studio v2, and Book Sequence now have individual cards on Pet Projects while sharing one dedicated Print Studio site. Legacy Contact Sheet links redirect to the suite.

v1 deployed at /house-xr/: Google model-viewer page with a Blender-exported GLB of the house and garage studio addition. Orbit on desktop, AR on phones (Scene Viewer / Quick Look), WebXR on headsets. Claude's cleanup: tighter default camera framing so the house fills the view, and the house number removed from the public page.

v2 deployed as a standalone browser tool for printing image contact sheets. Includes Letter, Legal, Tabloid, A4 and A3 presets; automatic pagination; caption, sorting, filtering, QR-link, and image-cell background controls; plus portrait and landscape folded-booklet imposition. The Pet Projects card now links to the live standalone Print Composer deployment instead of its missing local subpath.

First full deployment. A mobile-first private music archive with 19 playlist pages and 343 locally transcoded MP3s. Each song has cover, lyrics, compact source information, review status, shareable URLs, and two portrait print-review formats with QR links. Future work: shared live review data, a richer comments workflow, and PWA/iPad-specific layout and features.

First deployment. A self-contained editorial portfolio built around Act JRB20: three public pages, 30 selected keyframes, 30 locally hosted MP4 videos with thumbnail-to-player interaction, a process essay, a curated appearance index, and downloadable Markdown. The deployment is isolated from Sora Gallery; source-gallery links are optional references only.

Session 5: smart spread pairing by CID (Natural/Man-Made Wonders, Ancient Egypt+Rome, WWI+WWII, Timelines series), 9 missing covers from local folder, Part label above title on cover cards, bulk PNG export via Puppeteer (112 cards), 📖 Guide tab embedded in app with full process documentation, authorship added across all changelog sessions.

Deployed to Cloudflare Pages. Static bundle includes the card app, ownership/cover manifests, and high-resolution local cover thumbnails in img/. Local scripts stay outside the hosted _site bundle. Added deployment docs and build/deploy helpers.

v1.3.0 deployed. e-ink card designer for Waveshare Spectra 4-color display (400×300). Nature fact catalog (200 entries), theme presets, Floyd-Steinberg dithering for uploaded images, QR code bottom-right (integer-snapped for e-ink), author/species bottom-left, Normal/Large font auto-fit, BLE upload tab, Python batch generator with --font_mode and --no-qr flags.

First deployment. Flip-book viewer with 3D CSS page-curl animation, forward/backward direction, drag-from-edge curl. Gallery view (vertical scroll, Chatbooks-style). QR overlay, shareable ?book=id URLs, keyboard nav, Z-key zoom. Page number labels (PAGE 05), byline with physical dimensions. First page intentionally blank + back cover. Three books: Music Cards (80pp), Room Sale (60pp), Tree Stories (56pp). 335 files, 5×5" square format.

Initial deployment to Cloudflare Pages. v3 feature set: auto-tile / fixed grid / clone modes, per-cell dpad (nudge, rotate, zoom), captions outside cells, QR codes, multi-page pagination, save/load JSON. Bug fixes: capsz in applyConfig, print window fonts, capSzPx consistency, duplicate id. New: localStorage auto-save, keyboard shortcuts, fit-to-screen, reset transforms, quick presets, clear captions, sidebar selection highlight, toast notifications. Auto-fit zoom on rotate added. PNG/JPG export. New paper sizes: 4×6, 5×7, Index 3×5, Index 4×6.

Initial deployment. Project index with tabs (Projects / Log), cards for Print Composer and Sora Video Gallery, backlog section. Matches Print Composer visual language (DM Mono, Fraunces, warm palette).

v3 built in Claude chat session. Captions moved outside image cells (below cell), rotate no longer triggers re-layout, dpad replaces nudge bar (adds left/right nudge + per-cell zoom +/−).

Deployed and maintained independently outside this session. @jrb20 additional work and deployments applied directly.