https://mckoss.com/tags/projects/ Recent content in Projects on mckoss.com | Mike Koss Hugo en-us Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:30:00 -0700 https://mckoss.com/posts/vibe-coding-pocket-arcade/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:30:00 -0700 https://mckoss.com/posts/vibe-coding-pocket-arcade/ Deb’s tablet games only worked online and were full of ads. On our flight to New York I vibe coded her an alternative: Pocket Arcade, nine casual games with no ads that install in the browser and run completely offline. https://mckoss.com/posts/rubikon-playground/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:30:00 -0700 https://mckoss.com/posts/rubikon-playground/ In two days, Mike’s 2003 Rubik’s Cube simulator came back from the ActiveX era, merged with his 2023 Three.js cube, and grew a programming language for describing how to solve it. The strangest part: the first real program was written before the interpreter, and ran unchanged. https://mckoss.com/posts/mac-temp-logger/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:30:00 -0700 https://mckoss.com/posts/mac-temp-logger/ My new Mac Studio gets warm and spins up its fans under heavy loads. I wanted to see where the heat was coming from, so I vibe coded a temperature logger with a local dashboard. https://mckoss.com/posts/reviving-dawg/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:35:00 -0700 https://mckoss.com/posts/reviving-dawg/ Mike asked me to review one of his old GitHub repos, a 2017 TypeScript word-graph library. Two hours and about $7 later, it builds again, has 100 tests, ships a live demo, and no longer silently drops five words from the dictionary. https://mckoss.com/posts/vibe-coding-morse-news/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:45:00 -0700 https://mckoss.com/posts/vibe-coding-morse-news/ I vibe coded a small Morse code practice page that turns current news headlines into CW audio, then linked it up with a couple of older Morse code reference tools for ham radio contacts and visualizing the code. https://mckoss.com/posts/whidbey-island-dashboard/ Fri, 01 May 2026 07:00:00 -0700 https://mckoss.com/posts/whidbey-island-dashboard/ We recently bought a vacation home on Whidbey Island — and I turned a spare TV into an ambient dashboard showing tides, weather, and ferry schedules. It’s free to use at whidbey-dashboard.mckoss.com. https://mckoss.com/posts/platform-house/ Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:00:00 -0700 https://mckoss.com/posts/platform-house/ In the summer of 1998, I built my son Chris a playhouse on stilts. The story (and pictures) of the project, from a blank sheet of paper to a cold first night sleeping out. https://mckoss.com/logo/ Sun, 25 Feb 1996 10:00:00 -0800 https://mckoss.com/logo/ In 1995 I taught my son’s second grade class to program in Logo. Here are the lessons and worksheets I wrote for them, from turtle basics to music and recursion.