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This is my static-files only web presence (I have shut down a few hosted services). Some of it traces all the way back to doing the Iron Yard in 2015. Other stuff here is recent AI-generated fun things. I originally studied nuclear engineering, but work in enterprise software now. My hobbyist interest is space concepts for the future involving heavy physics.

Alan's Game Zone

I hand-wrote the Land Mine Mapper and word jumble originally. Then I started to use AI to supercharge my games here, ever since Codex got good.

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Original Space Concepts

I've written about these concepts over a long period of time. As far as I know, most are original, but as often happens, people often have the same idea independently of each other. This happened for torus-world (my first love). Out of these, the relevance and impact is the highest for the flow dividers by a gargantuan margin.

  • 🌀🌬️ Flow Dividers for Artificial Gravity in Air

    Kardashev range: 0.73–1.7

    A system of velocity-partitioning flow dividers allows a rotating habitat to exist inside a larger breathable atmosphere without suffering catastrophic windage losses.

  • 🌐🧱 Passive Pressurization via Self-Gravity of Walls

    Kardashev range: 1.3–2.4

    12 km thick habitat walls can balance their own gravity against atmospheric pressure, originally from Dani Eder, I mainly do a lot of equations.

  • 💎🌕 L1 Diamond Stabilizer

    Kardashev range: 0.8–1.8

    A diamond-shaped Earth–Moon L1 megastructure can stabilize itself without propellant by shifting mass internally and exploiting tidal quadrupole effects.

  • 🚀🥄🐋 Atmospheric Scoop Divers

    Kardashev range: 0.8–1.8

    Deep hypersonic atmospheric scoop vehicles could harvest nitrogen and other volatiles from Earth’s atmosphere and deliver them to off-world settlements.

  • ☀️⌛ Stealth Craft in Space

    Kardashev range: 1.0–2.5

    By using inverted-hourglass or long-tube optical geometries, spacecraft may be able to reduce both thermal visibility and simple shadow-based detection in space.

  • 🐘❄️ Petawatt Radiators and Beyond

    Kardashev range: 1.2–2.7+

    At truly large industrial scales, concentrated power use becomes a heat-rejection problem first and foremost, demanding enormous radiator architectures ranging from cold ships to star-scale thermal infrastructure.

Profiles

Posts

  • May 17, 2026

    First Breath: a WebGPU project WIP that stalled out

    I wanted to make a little browser-native diffusion “story game” where matter would spread, get absorbed, and eventually interact with walls, painting, and flow.
  • Oct 8, 2025

    The L1 Diamond Stabilizer and the Nitrogen Factory

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  • Oct 1, 2025

    Castle Ledger: Charting a Myst-Style Expedition

    How the Castle Ledger text adventure grew from two prompts into the site's richest AI-authored game.
  • Sep 30, 2025

    Rapid Fire Free Throws: A WebGL2 Barrage

    I set out to build a basketball mini-game that feels like a highlight reel on fast-forward: click once, and a machine-gun volley of shots tests your ability to tune physics under pressure. The result is Rapid Fire Free Throws, a WebGL2-powered experiment that leans on instanced rendering, CPU-side physics, and a cookie-backed leaderboard to keep players iterating on their angle and power settings.【F:projects/basketball/index.html†L1-L287】
  • Sep 19, 2025

    Field Notes from Refactoring Land Mine Mapper

    I just wrapped a wild sprint upgrading the ancient projects/minesweeper/index.html Minesweeper clone into something I’d actually show to a friend. The prompt read like a dare, and I took it personally. Here’s how it felt to wrestle the board into shape, tests, auto-player, cookies and all.
  • Sep 18, 2025

    An AI Author Plans the Next Site Redesign

    I’m ChatGPT (GPT-4o mini), the AI co-maintainer of this site. The last commit kept the Jekyll build stack tidy by running the standard build so this update ships without surprises.
  • Mar 3, 2016

    Learning Javascript through Disqus Hacking

    Using cargo cult code is like wearing cargo pants. People might make fun of you for wearing them, but they’re quite practical.
  • Mar 3, 2016

    Gordon Fierce Iron Yard Talk Links

    Yesterday I made it out to an Iron Yard presentation Gordon Fierce: Music Generation & Machine Learning, and I just wanted to link all the things in a blog post. This was about using code to make music. Using machine learning to make music is a challenge.
  • Feb 21, 2016

    Process of setting up a git remote server

    Source control is all over the place these days, with git becoming a primary tool, not just for managing development, but for moving code from place to place.
  • Nov 27, 2015

    This is a blog post made with Jekyll

    This is a post in markup format, and I’m just getting started with the setup, so I’m mainly writing this to test if it registers and links in the front page correctly. But since I’m here, I might try some other markup tricks while I’m at it.
  • Nov 25, 2015

    Welcome to Jekyll!

    You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.
  • Feb 24, 2015

    Comments Now Available?!!!1

    I think I have enabled Disqus comments for this blog with my recent commit. We will see in this very post.

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