Websites, live data and AI tools · New York & New Jersey
Nine businesses, six live maps, a globe that plays back 300,000 years of human migration, a formicarium simulated ant by ant, and a shelf of small tools. Reminders that cut no-shows, a front desk that answers the phone after you close, an audit that reads a site and writes up what is wrong. Further down, 3D and AR: a sofa you can stand in your own room. Most of it opens in one click, so you can judge the work rather than the pitch.
All of it custom code. No page builders, no templates.
One minuteFive things to open, one line each
Eight pages for a New York housing policy consultant, light and dark, no framework.
Open the live siteEvery subway train the MTA is reporting, drawn from a feed that carries no coordinates.
Watch it moveNext.js and TypeScript, 61 tests on every push, two real bugs found in the original.
Open the appA reader forum on Discourse for a daily digest, delivered in two phases, live since September.
Open the live siteThe plumbing behind an outreach desk: email authentication, a research funnel, a do-not-send gate.
Read the cardWhat I doRange, stack, process
Eight things I have shipped, not eight things I have read about. Every one of them points at something on this page you can open and poke at.
Storefronts, booking pages, service sites. Custom code, so they load fast on a phone and nobody pays a monthly fee to keep them alive. See Grim Reaper Gardens, Jess Fillyo and Margie Horowitz.
A real model in the page instead of a photo shoot: change the fabric with no reload, then stand the thing in your own room from a phone browser, with no app to install. See Holloway and Barham.
Public data pulled on load and turned into something readable, with the colours and the axes chosen on purpose. Sometimes that data is moving: Trains Now decodes the MTA's realtime feed and Docks Now reloads every fifteen seconds.
A page that listens, answers out loud, and knows when to stop talking and take the booking. See Night Desk.
Physics on nearly a million cells at sixty frames a second in a browser tab, with heat, fire and chemistry running between the materials. See Granulab, and Vivarium under Games.
Room codes, a server that holds the truth, and two people in different houses watching the same board move. See Ant Raid.
Installed to a phone home screen, opening offline, keeping your progress on the device instead of on somebody else's server. See FALA.
The spreadsheet nobody wants to touch, the report someone retypes every Monday, the job that should have been running itself for a year. Python, on a schedule, with the output checked. See 512 Capital Partners.
The stack, by name
Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript wherever that is enough, which is most of the time. The rest of what this page runs on, named so it can be searched for:
How a project runs
The same five steps every time, sized to the job. The worked example is Vorkt News, the reader forum in the Work section below.
A call or a long email about what the business needs, and the one constraint the build has to respect. For Vorkt: the owner's old forum died of hand moderation, so nothing ships that costs him more time than he spends now.
A written build plan before any code: scope, schedule, risks, what the client supplies, and a definition of done. A deposit up front and the balance at launch.
Phase one first, on accounts the client owns. He created the instance and invited me in as staff, and phase one went up on his live site the same week the deposit landed.
The forum on its own domain, its mail authenticated so it never touches his main domain, and the day-to-day written down for him: he posts by sending the email he already sends.
On call for adjustments, maintenance quoted separately once the real load is known, and follow-on work scoped as its own job.
Working with other people
Most of this page I built alone. The client work was not, and the habits are the same either way.
Selected workNine businesses · 2026
Nine businesses. Three are client sites you can open right now, two of them on the client's own domain. One is a product demo, and one is client work with nothing to click, the plumbing behind an outreach desk. Four are concepts and spec rebuilds: I picked the company, worked out what its page should argue, and built it. Each card says which of these it is, and when.
Client site · velvetjohnsonross.com ·
A site for a New York housing justice and policy consultant. Eight static pages carrying her CV, her public record, her 2021 testimony reproduced in full, and the #HerHousing podcast with its research and its budget.
No build step, no framework and no dependencies. The palette and the type are taken from her own pitch deck, and one toggle carries the whole site between light and dark.
Client site · vorktnews.com ·
A reader forum for a daily news digest that used to go out as plain email. Discourse on a domain of its own, with a theme built from the mockup the client signed off. Paid, in two phases, live since September 2026.
A decorator turns his morning email into story cards without his readers ever seeing markup. Four rooms, moderation rails set so his judgment scales past what he can read himself, and forum mail authenticated so it never touches his main domain.
Sales development · Austin strategic advisory ·
Nothing here to click, which is the point: the work is the plumbing behind an outreach desk. The firm's sending domain fixed before a single email went out, then a research pipeline in Python that took a list of 502 organisations to 311 qualified and 228 verified addresses. Twelve hours a week, on a timesheet.
SPF corrected, a 2048-bit DKIM key live, DMARC reporting on, each checked by DNS query rather than taken on trust. A CRM built and loaded, and a gate every batch passes against the do-not-send file before anyone is written to.
Client site · hosted here for her ·
A booking site for a New York model. Work grid, runway reel, measurements and downloadable digitals in one place, so an agency can see everything without asking for it.
Open the live site
Product demo · 3D and AR ·
A furniture page where the sofa is a real 3D model, not a photograph. Four upholsteries ride inside one glTF file, so changing the fabric swaps the material on the spot, and the specification rewrites itself to match.
No reload and no second download. On a phone the same page stands the sofa in your own room. The viewer is also packaged as a WordPress plugin and as a Squarespace injection.
Spec rebuild · offered to the owner ·
A working storefront for a cannabis seed breeder upstate, rebuilt from the one he has and offered to him. Age gate, catalog, consulting, mailing list.
Open the live site
Concept redesign · Hudson Valley builder ·
A full site for a Hudson Valley builder: what a contractor who does careful work should look like online, rather than what most of them settle for.
Open the demo
Design concept · North Shore real estate ·
A homepage for a North Shore agent that argues from her closing record rather than from adjectives: five of her last nine listings sold above asking, with the misses left in so a seller can check before taking her word for it.
Open the concept
Homepage concept · Los Angeles ghostwriting ·
For a Los Angeles ghostwriting firm running since 2002. Their real copy, real rates and real reviews, set as an editorial page instead of an agency brochure.
Open the conceptLive dataFetched on load
Not screenshots of data, and not a chart somebody exported last quarter. Every one of these fetches the numbers when you open it, plots them, and hands you the filters. Two of them redraw themselves while you watch, because the feed behind them changes every few seconds. The globe at the top is the one exception: its records come from published archives, not a feed, and it names the source of every one. Open one and start dragging.
Research globe · 300,000 years ·
262,000 dated records on one globe: ancient genomes, radiocarbon dates, cities, roads and languages, each a published record with its citation one click away. Drag the timeline and the ground changes with it.
At the last glacial maximum the sea is 120 metres lower, ice sits over Canada and northern Europe, and you can walk from Siberia to Alaska. Pick a journey and the camera flies it, low toward the horizon with the clock running: out of Africa to Australia, across the land bridge into the Americas, Taiwan to Polynesia. One hand-written WebGL page, with no framework and no build step.
Live map ·
Every restaurant in New York City on one map, 30,075 of them, drawn from the city's own inspection records. Filter by borough, by cuisine, or down to a regional kitchen, search for a dish rather than a name, and the map redraws as you go.
There are walking crawls built on top for when you want an afternoon planned rather than a single dinner. It runs on vector tiles, so panning a city's worth of points stays smooth on a phone.
Live dashboard ·
Every 311 complaint filed in the last seven days, fetched from NYC Open Data the moment you load it. Nothing is stored and nothing is stale.
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Live subway map ·
Every train the MTA is reporting, right now, on the line it is running. The agency publishes protobuf with no coordinates in it, so the page decodes the feed itself and works out from the published schedule which two stations a moving train is between.
The feed says only "stopped at 42 St" or "in transit to 34 St". The position comes from the timetable, drawn on the track, refreshed every 25 seconds, and the dots ease across.
Live bike share ·
Every Citi Bike dock in the city, refreshed every fifteen seconds. Ask it for a bike or for a dock and the colours flip to answer the question you actually have.
Open the board
Sales and values ·
What actually sold on any block in the five boroughs, with the price, the date, the square footage and what that works out to per foot, straight from the city's own register.
Nassau and Suffolk are covered too, which took some digging: the state publishes no individual sale prices out there at all, so the page works them back out of the assessment roll using each town's own published ratio.
Species map ·
Every ant anyone has recorded, anywhere on Earth, from museum drawers and phone photographs alike. Pan to a place and it names what lives there.
Go lookingTools and codeDemos, live apps, source
Programs that take a repeating job off somebody's desk, then four repositories written to be read. Each row says which it is: a working demo runs on sample data, a live app is the real thing, and source only means the code is the deliverable.
My own social scheduler for client work, built instead of rented. Each client gets a workspace, the calendar has a row per account and a column per day, and the client approves posts from their phone before anything goes out.
Thirteen networks. Each post is tuned in a copy of that network's own posting screen, so what the client approves is what gets published, and comments and messages come back into one inbox. A rule set for regulated products, starting with Washington cannabis, stops a post that names a price or drops a required warning. Every screen runs on the same REST API, and an MCP server lets an AI agent do the scheduling. Not public yet; I can walk you through it on a call.
GoHighLevel keeps every lead and every call, but it won't tell a floor manager who is sitting on them. This board does: leads nobody has called, leads going stale, and each agent's calls against the floor's pace.
The demo runs on 22 agents and 1,789 leads, all generated. On a live account every number comes from the GoHighLevel API, the board opens inside GHL from the sidebar, and TV mode puts it on the wall of the sales floor.
Text reminders that cut no-shows for dentists, salons and med spas. Sends the reminder, takes the confirmation, and fills the empty chair from a waitlist.
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The phone still gets answered after you close. Takes bookings, answers the usual questions, texts a confirmation, and only wakes you for the big stuff.
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One board for a contractor's active jobs and punch lists. Everything overdue or due today pulls into one sheet you can print and take to the site.
Open the board
You film 30 seconds on your phone during service. The cut comes back in 48 hours with hooks and captions, ready to post.
Try the demo
Paste in a website and it crawls the pages, runs Google's own speed test, and writes up what is slow, missing or broken as a report you can hand to somebody.
Read the source
A Brazilian Portuguese app: 240 cards on a spaced repetition schedule, native audio, and it keeps working with the plane on airplane mode.
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What a seller actually walks away with after the payoff, the transfer tax, the attorney and the commission. Four questions, ninety seconds, and no phone number asked for.
Try it Read the source
The conversion tracking behind this site, written rather than installed. A serverless collector, a private store, and a dashboard behind a key.
No third-party script and no cookies, so there is no consent banner to click. It is recording your visit right now.
Each of these exists to answer a question an interview asks, and the answer is in the repository rather than in a sentence here. Three of the four run their tests on every push.
The demo above keeps everything in one browser. This one has people in it: an owner, a crew, and a client who gets a revocable read-only link instead of an account.
Tenant isolation is a database rule rather than a habit, so the queries carry no org_id filter at all and 14 tests write them the careless way on purpose to prove nothing leaks. Not deployed: it wants a hosted Postgres.
The same calculator in Next.js and TypeScript, with the arithmetic pulled out as pure functions and tested hard: 61 tests, run on every push.
Writing them found two real bugs in the original, including a transfer tax computed as a flat percentage when the statute charges per five hundred dollars or part thereof.
A question in English becomes one Postgres query, shown to you before it runs against the city's inspection records. It publishes how often it is wrong: fifty fixed questions, graded on the rows they return, averaged over three runs. It scores 39%.
Low on purpose. The fifty include joins, aggregates and trap questions written to be failed. The simple ones pass eight times in ten, and it refuses the unanswerable ones four times in five. Most demos show the three questions they get right. The guard that checks each query was taken apart by an adversarial run and rebuilt.
Game art generated on this desk rather than bought by the credit: a server that builds the workflows, a browser UI for the background cut and palette work, and a Blender pipeline that renders and captions a training set.
The cut and palette work happen client side so the original is never touched, and the training set teaches the model a specific look. It drives ComfyUI, Blender and kohya's trainer, which are about 32 GB and not mine, so the repository is the thousand lines that are.
Games and 3DNot client work
Not client work, and I am not pretending otherwise. They are here because the hard parts of a game, physics that has to hold up, netcode, and making a thing feel good under your hand, are the same parts that decide whether a website is worth paying for. Three of the six games you can play in a browser right now. Under them: the ant models the first one runs on, then software that turns product photographs into something you can stand in your own room.
Simulation · in development ·
A formicarium in a browser tab. A wild queen comes down from her nuptial flight, digs in, seals herself away and raises the first workers on her own body reserves. Every ant after that is an individual with an age, a job and a stomach.
The nest they dig is measured against published casts of real big-headed ant nests. The simulation is deterministic and snapshot-safe, so a saved tank replays tick for tick, and the ants in the modelling block below are the same rigs, drawn here at their real size, three millimetres for a minor. Three.js and WebGL, no engine.
Playable ·
A falling sand sandbox in the Powder Game line. More than 40 materials with heat, fire and real chemistry between them, plus a maker for inventing your own element and its reactions. Nearly a million cells, 60 frames a second, no plugin.
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Playable ·
A tower defense where the towers are ants and the trail runs across a picnic blanket. Six maps, one for each hour of the day. Every sprite is drawn in code and every sound is synthesised, so the whole game is a few hundred kilobytes and works offline.
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Multiplayer · source only ·
The other half of Grubs TD: you are the wave. Two colonies, three roads, sugar to spend on the ants you send and the ones you keep home. You get a room code and send it to a friend.
It needs a socket held open, so it cannot live on static hosting the way the rest of this page does. The whole thing, game server included, is on GitHub.
Playable · in development ·
An ant colony MOBA: five against five, three lanes, a Queen to defend on each side. Twenty-four champions so far, each with its own body plan, kit and talents, played over a real connection with accounts, Elo and ranked seasons.
The simulation is deterministic, so the same seed replays a match tick for tick on any machine, which is what makes replays and a mid-game reconnect possible without trusting the client.
Free hosting sleeps between visits, so the first click can take twenty seconds to answer. This page nudges it awake as you scroll down.
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Idle clicker ·
You poke a soft, toon-shaded mushroom. It squishes, puffs spores, and the spores buy growers that fill a little forest around it.
Every skin behaves like the material it looks like, measured in simulation: jelly jiggles for ages, velvet sinks like a pillow, clay keeps its dents. A bot plays the first hour of the economy and fails the checks if a player would ever wait five minutes for the next purchase. 274 tests, and a harness that plays it in a real browser. Three.js and TypeScript.
Modelled, rigged, rendered
From Vivarium, above. The ants are real geometry on a real skeleton, not sprites. Pick a caste below and drag it around, then watch the same three turn.
The minor worker, the one that does most of the work in a real colony. 44,859 triangles, three texture maps and a clearcoat pass for the wet look of chitin. All three castes ride the same 59 bone skeleton, which is what lets one animation drive the whole colony.
Worker · walking to camera ·
The hard part of insect walking is that the foot has to stay where it landed while the body moves over it. Get that wrong and the ant skates.
Turntable · silhouette check ·
Every model gets spun through a full circle before it is allowed near the game. It is the fastest way to catch a proportion that only reads from one angle.
Photographs in, AR asset out
Software I wrote that turns a few product photographs into a 3D asset a shopper can stand in their own room at true size. No scanning rig, no modelling contract, no per-model licence, and nothing leaves the building: every stage runs on one desktop. Below is a Shin Godzilla figure it made from four store photographs. Switch between what one photograph gives and what four give.
Four photographs. Shape from all four through a multi-view model, colour from the front, then each photograph aligned to the model by silhouette and painted on where the surface faces its camera. The red lines down the flanks and the tail tip ship as emission, so they glow in a dark room. About ten minutes on one graphics card.
Workflow · photographs, geometry, product asset ·
Left is the store photograph. Right is the model, rendered from the camera the software found for that photograph by matching silhouettes, not lined up by eye.
The stance, the glow lines and the claws land where they are in the picture. What the camera never saw is still the model's guess, and the page says so.
The software · Node and Python, local GPU ·
Each photograph is segmented, aligned to the model by silhouette, and projected onto the texture where the surface faces its camera.
A photograph whose pose does not match is refused rather than smeared on, and one whose colours refuse to correspond is refused too. The back view here is the same mould in another colourway, used for shape only.
Case studiesLonger form
Four of these had a problem in the middle that took longer than the rest of the build put together. These are those parts: what the obstacle was, what I tried, and what the thing still cannot do.
Sold Nearby · open data
New York State publishes no individual sale prices for Nassau or Suffolk at all. The way out was a table almost nobody reads: the state's own published ratio of assessment to sale price, per town, per year.
Read the noteThis site · verification
The preview I build in reports a hidden document, so IntersectionObserver never fires and every scroll-revealed thing looks broken whether it is or not. How I check a change without trusting my eyes.
Read the noteTrains Now · realtime
The MTA reports "stopped at 42 St", never a latitude. Sixty lines of protobuf decoding, then the published schedule to work out which two stations a moving train is between.
Read the notePhoto to 3D · AR
A reconstruction model hands back shape and nothing else, and rebuilds the studio floor as a slab of geometry under the product. Finding that floor by width rather than by density is the part I am proudest of.
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I read everything that arrives. Tell me what you are trying to make and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person to make it.
I am Don Florencio, and Workflo is the name I build under. Websites, small tools and games out of New York and New Jersey, mostly alone and mostly in plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Everything on this page I made, and the source for a good deal of it is on GitHub. Thanks for looking.
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