Projects

Shipped platforms, tools, and personal projects. For PoCs, explorations, and research work, see research.

Repo visibility is noted throughout. Public repos are linkable references; private repos exist but source is not publicly accessible.

Items

• autos — Autos — car-browsing technology demonstration across 7 frameworks with GraphQL backend; originated as a Cox Automotive take-home interview exercise
• d4-gear — A Diablo IV character armory built from four YAML files — Python compiles them to data.json and renders the finished HTML, published on Vercel and GitHub Pages from the same commit
• eswat2-mcp — Personal MCP server exposing biographical and career information about Richard Hess (eswat2) across 7 namespaces — biography, projects, research, specs, gallery, vault, and server-level eswat2://
• farmers-market — Farmers Market pro bono web app — paperless vendor signup and approval (2014–2018)
• framework-roadmap — 14 frameworks targeted for future implementation across the autos, funnel, sudoku, and tinker reference suite
• funnel — Custom SVG Funnel — one design, 8 framework implementations
• icons — Icon libraries and tools — s4e-icons, s4e-ikons, proto-ikon-loader, wc-proofs
• juris-mcp — MCP server for the Juris.js runtime — live HTML preview generation from YAML specs with a 17-component registry
• lit-mcp — MCP server that compiles YAML component specs into production Lit 4.x web components with Shadow DOM, typed props, and state management
• mock-apis — Lightweight mock API servers for UI development and prototyping
• npx-cards — NPX CLI business cards — contact info and links via npx eswat2
• proto-realtime — Four no-signup real-time prototype apps — planning poker, team retro board, birthday bot, collaborative drawing PoC — sharing one Vercel + Redis + SSE architecture
• proto-specs — Public repo of app specifications (not code) used as a cleanroom-implementation benchmark for coding agents
• proto-watchlist — A PS5 game watchlist generated from one YAML file — Python builds the page and its Markdown mirror, three independent axes, a playtime record, and no JavaScript beyond a theme toggle
• skunkworks — Definition and examples of skunk works projects from Richard Hess's career — small-team radical innovation built outside normal constraints
• spec-cleanroom — Archive of independent cleanroom implementations of proto-poker and proto-retro, built from proto-specs alone by Grok and Antigravity
• stencil-mcp — MCP server that compiles YAML component specs into framework-agnostic Stencil 4.x web component distributions with Tailwind CSS integration
• sudoku-comparison — What separates the two Claude-written single-file Sudoku apps from the eight hand-built framework ports — architecture, deploy model, and measured payloads
• sudoku-juris — Sudoku — Juris native implementation; exploratory proof of runtime, used in vercel-apps.py
• sudoku — Sudoku App — one design, 10 framework implementations with serverless Rust API
• svg-mcp — MCP server for unified multi-family SVG icon access — 18,978+ unique icons across 9 families with variant support
• tailwind-mcp — MCP server for Tailwind CSS v4 generation with post-processing into layered CSS outputs for Shadow DOM and document-level use
• tailwind-plugins — Tailwind CSS plugins — clrs palette, pixels, rems, and spacing utilities
• tinker — Tinker — minimal reference app for validating action–state across frameworks