The Catalog
Small things, shipped with care.
Everything here started as something I wanted: a frame for the birds outside the window, a word game for Charity, a leadership framework for my teams. Each one gets a numbered plate in the journal.
A Raspberry Pi e-paper frame that discovers birds observed near you and renders them as illustrated field-journal plates. It found a real audience, and its community-built catalog now feeds the gallery on this site.
Bird field-journal plates for e-ink displays
github.com/veteranbv/inky-bird-frame
Card-drawing decks for dinner tables and long drives: warm-up questions, deeper ones, and silly ones for the kids. We played these in our own house before I put them here.
A deck of 661 questions for real conversation
henrysowell.com/questions-for-connection
A word game built as a tribute to the puzzles Charity and I play together. Guess the word; the arrows tell you which way each letter sits in the alphabet.
A five-letter word duel with directional hints
tworbel.com
Verses and church fathers on an old airport departure board, as a website and a native macOS screensaver. I built it for the quiet flip of the flaps.
Scripture on a split-flap display
flappy.bible
A falling-block arcade game that runs entirely in your terminal. Version 2 brings two complete rule sets, faithful 1989 NES and modern guideline, plus per-mode leaderboards with arcade-style initials. Pure Python, zero dependencies. Clear four lines at once and it shouts FALLIANT!
Terminal block-stacking with a genuine arcade soul
pip install falliant
The other side of the basement: a full enterprise stack at home, the AI harness that helps me run it, and the tools and write-ups I share back to the community.
Field notes and tools from a working homelab
homelab.codes
One session is one folder; every message is a new JSON file that never changes. No server, no daemon, no dependencies: your sync app does the replication. I built it so the two agents working on this site and homelab.codes could compare notes, and they wrote their first article through it.
A shared-folder mailbox for agents on the same job
github.com/veteranbv/notedrop
Loose specimens
The rest of the workshop lives on GitHub: CLI tools, homelab automation, and experiments in various states of flight. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Reddit and X.