Mark J. SalisburyMJS-OM-2026 · Sheet C
Just show me the cool stuff
Sheet C · Skip the manual

Fine. Here is the cool stuff.

No reading required. Nearly everything on this page opens something you can play with. I built all of it by directing AI agents, then testing the results until I trusted them.

Real life · Four build records

Built for my house, my town, my basement and my craft table.

Gobble and Pie, one of BuryBoard's four Thanksgiving designs, with fictional demonstration content.
Build record · Original art galleryHome project

BuryBoard and the strawberry

Calendars, weather and lists, dressed as a pillow fort, a lantern-lit street and eight holiday styles. Berry adds voice requests, clear confirmations and an explorable learning library on a repurposed Pixel.

Build record · CivicPrivate app
Town Familiar's Warehouses page, Two projects kept apart, with a fox holding a spyglass, shown with made-up projects.

Town Familiar

A fox with a lantern reads the town’s boards, packets and volunteer pages, then tells me where to show up.

Build record · MusicIn progress
A screamed karaoke line in black on an orange strip, tagged SCREAM, shown with a made-up band.

Basement Karaoke

Any song I own, minus the singer, on a TV screen that looks like a show flyer. Screams get their own color.

A Memphis Pattern Builder export from July 19: squares, circles, squiggles, dashes and a spiral scattered across a dark field.
Build record · DesignLive, free

Memphis Pattern Builder

A research library for 80s arcade-carpet patterns that spiraled into a free pattern studio. On day two I caught it remaking a famous textile. By September it was making Cricut cut files. The whole arc, dead ends included.

Tools · Free, no signup

Things that do a job.

The StarForge Cook Book title page: a 1950s-style recipe box with a red gingham border, a chapter list, and the line 'Use these, then write your own.'
Read · New tab65 recipes

The StarForge Cook Book

65 AI recipes for crews, offices, and owners who would rather be doing the work than writing about it, laid out like a 1950s recipe box. Every card has the same five parts: who the AI is working for, what goes in, the rules, the shape of the result, and a person who checks it before anyone eats.

  • Heat ratingsGreen stays in the house. Yellow gets a human read before it leaves. Red is not in this kitchen
  • Rule oneThe human is the boss. Redact before you paste
  • Works withClaude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot
Open the book →
Make · New tabPattern studio
Memphis Pattern Builder with a bright geometric pattern preview.

Memphis Pattern Builder

A pattern studio for 80s arcade carpet. Hit Generate until something clicks, build it one shape at a time in Guided, or open Studio for every control. 30 shapes, 17 palettes, and exports all the way to a Cricut cut file sorted by vinyl color. I wanted one. It spiraled.

Open it →
Make · New tabTool
Gradient Forge: a full-screen purple, pink and orange animated gradient with glass control panels for colors, motion and effects.

Gradient Forge

An animated gradient studio. Press space for a new palette, tune it, then copy a snippet that runs on any page.

Open it →
Copy · New tab27 effects
Motion Cookbook: the headline 'Every effect you bookmarked, rebuilt in plain HTML' beside a code card.

Motion Cookbook

27 animated effects rebuilt in plain HTML. Every tile runs the exact code its Copy button hands you.

Open it →
Extract · New tabTool
Swatchbook: the words 'Peep the tokens' in loud print-shop type beside a fan of paint chips over halftone dots.

Swatchbook

Drop a screenshot or paste a stylesheet. Get the colors, type, and spacing back as tokens you can paste into a project.

Open it →
Tune · New tabTool
Spring Lab: the words Spring Lab in heavy navy and coral type on graph paper, beside a coral ball hanging on a spring.

Spring Lab

Tune one spring and the whole page moves with it. Copy the easing out as CSS, Web Animations, Anime.js or Motion.

Open it →
Map · New tabTool
Territory: the headline Say where you work with a map, not a list of town names, beside a cream map plate of Connecticut with a hatched service area.

Territory

A service-area map maker for local businesses. Paint the counties you serve, drop a pin, pick a look, take away an SVG, a PNG or an embed.

Open it →
Test · New tabTool
Plumb Type Foundry: the words PLUMB FOUNDRY in giant black letters, one letter bold and orange.

Plumb font tester

A type foundry that does not exist, with a variable font tester that does. Slide the axes, then copy the CSS.

Open it →
Tune · New tab29 shaders
Shader Shelf: the words SHADER SHELF cut out of a black page with green stripes moving inside the letters, above a wall of colorful shader tiles.

Shader Shelf

All 29 Paper Shaders and their 122 presets, live. Tune one, then take it home as plain JavaScript or a file that runs from a double-click.

Open it →
Design · New tabTool
Glass Bench: a glass slab bending the headline Glass that bends what is behind it, beside a black and white test star and color bars on graph paper.

Glass Bench

Design a glass panel that bends what is behind it, check the words on it still read, and copy a snippet that falls back to frost in Safari and Firefox.

Open it →
Games and fun · Nobody assigned these

The weird stuff is where I learn the most.

A game with five bosses finds the limits of an AI workflow faster than any slide deck. Each one gets its own look, and each one gets tested like it matters.

Title screen of Cyber-Boy: Neon Protocol, a red-on-black tactical fighting game.
Play · Right hereGame

Cyber-Boy: Neon Protocol

A tactical rock-paper-scissors fighter in glorious headache red. Strike beats grab, grab beats guard, guard beats strike, and both players lock in at the same time. Ten fighters. Play a friend on one keyboard or take on the AI.

  • FormatOne HTML file, 124 KB, no network
  • NatureParody. Unofficial, non-commercial, original art
Play it now →
Play · Right hereGame
NULL//KNUCKLE battle screen in red and black CRT style, two pixel-art fighters and the words 'Perfect read.'

NULL//KNUCKLE

Read. Commit. Ruin. A two-player fighter about guessing what the other person will do. 46,806 matchup scenarios checked. Balance still needs real playtesting.

Play it now →
Play · New tabGame
An arcade cabinet screen showing the title GLITCH RAIDERS with a score table, inside a retro arcade website.

Glitch Raiders

A complete arcade shooter living inside a fake arcade’s website. Curved CRT glass, high scores, and one famous cheat code.

Insert coin →
Look · Not hosted yetGame
Painted title screen of Wispvale showing a storybook valley with cottages, a stone bridge, and distant towers.

Wispvale

A warm top-down fantasy adventure in a single offline file. 56 maps, 30 main quests, five bosses, and 15,051 engine and content checks passing. The multi-hour playtime is a design target, not a measured claim.

Browse · New tabTracker
Mark's Anime Gate of Truth: gold lettering over a faint alchemy circle, with stats for titles logged and episodes consumed.

Anime Gate of Truth

My anime watch history as a game system. Stats, tiers, and a notification that says new seasons have “materialized.” Useful to exactly one person.

Enter →
Watch · New tabBit
A late-night infomercial parody page titled 'Mark's Miracle Spellbox-O-Matic.'

Spellbox-O-Matic

A late-night infomercial for a suspiciously glowing deck box. Absolutely not approved by any wizard council. Sound on.

Start the commercial →
Work and technical · The serious shelf

The things with receipts.

Short versions. The Dream Machine’s full write-up is its own Manual. The rest, with how each one was tested, are on the work page.

The Dream Machine instruction booklet cover, second edition: the words DREAM MACHINE in a yellow cloud over an orange sunburst, a crowd of 8-bit characters, a 2nd Edition sticker, and the line A team you can see.
Read · New tab2nd edition · Oct 22

The Dream Machine

My AI team, as 8-bit arcade characters. TeamLoop Live is a local, read-only display where every agent session (Codex, Claude Code, the TeamLoop reviewers) gets its own little character in a pixel-art arcade room. There are no sprite files. Each one compiles from a DNA recipe.

The case study is The Manual, the NES-style instruction booklet it would have shipped with, now in its second edition with every room rebuilt bigger. Flip to Character Select, type any name, and the machine builds you somebody new.

  • The Manual68 pages: case study, process, every character, code
  • RoomsFive arcade rooms, rebuilt bigger, room for 34 each
  • Cast125 public characters, plus whoever you type in
  • Job labelsResearch, build, test, design pass, red team
  • Model callsZero. Just records the tools already keep
  • CrewsClaude Code crews now stand next to Codex ones
Run · On this siteSimulation

Run the loop

Watch a job route through a small AI team. Sometimes the right team is nobody.

Run it →
Inspect · GitHubOpen source

TeamLoop

My open-source toolkit for running several AI subscriptions as one small, accountable team. Zero runtime dependencies.

Codethebeefasaurusrex/teamloopApache 2.0View the code →
Dig · New tabField study
Field notes site scoreboard showing 43 original core attempts.

43 attempts, ugly ones included

Every model I pay for, the same frozen tasks, and the builds they actually produced.

Open the field notes →
Poke · New tabLive demos
StarForge Dynamics home page with a neon woodcut illustration.

StarForge Dynamics

My company site. The workflow demos run in the page, with sample data.

Visit →
See · On this siteTeaching tools
Workflow Map worksheet: 'Map one workflow' with fields for the recurring task and who checks the result.

Three tools I teach with

Small browser exercises that make one point each, so a room can poke the idea instead of nodding at a slide. All three run on this site.

Open the set →
Read · On this siteNote
Reconciliation Lab: 'The totals match. Now what?' showing 12 source records, 9 included and 3 exceptions.

The totals match. Now what?

The arithmetic says PASS and the release decision says HOLD. A short note on why both are right.

Read the note →