Thrift near home
Every thrift store within 30 miles of Fountain Valley or Hesperia, with a map and directions.
- Goodwill, Salvation Army, Savers, and local shops
- Distance and address for each store
- Map pins inside the 30-mile circle
Creative projects
Lane AI Labs Explore Discover Create
Studio, Music, Nature, Family, Entertainment, Glazed, Middle East atlases, and AI video — built with curiosity and craft.
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Projects
Pick a world — each door opens a full experience.
Studio
A pro desk in the tab — record, stack, mix, and bounce with live rooms.
- Multi-track record, stack, mix, and WAV bounce
- LiveKit voice, video, and screen share
- Reed engineer chat and StarBand agent
- LiveKit
- Web Audio
- Socket.IO
- OpenAI
- LangChain
- HeyGen
- PostgreSQL
Music
Field research desk for artists, tours, and pilgrimage history.
- Artist dossiers with members and birthplaces
- Time Machine on-this-date research
- Grateful Dead pilgrimage atlas
- MusicBrainz
- Wikipedia
- Wikidata
- Google Maps
- PostgreSQL
- Bootstrap
- JavaScript
Family
Lane genealogy, museum exhibits, and heritage storytelling.
- Interactive D3 family trees & 1891 register links
- Lane Cinema chronicle & museum plates
- Lane AI guide with maps
- D3.js
- Google Maps
- PostgreSQL
- LangChain
- OpenAI
- Bootstrap 5
- HeyGen
Watch together
Shared YouTube theater — same playhead, your own volume. No code.
- Synced playhead for up to 10 people
- Chat and draw overlay
- Live viewer map pins
- LiveKit
- YouTube API
- Google Maps
- Socket.IO
- JavaScript
Nature
Field discovery for fish, trees, rocks, critters, dinosaurs, and the pier.
- Photo ID with OpenAI Vision
- Mapped personal collections
- Dinosaur Hall Mesozoic diorama
- OpenAI Vision
- Google Maps
- PostgreSQL
- LangChain
- Bootstrap
The Valley
Museum-style West PA & East Ohio gallery with a local AI guide.
- Buhl Park hub map
- HyperFrames highlight reel
- AI guide David
- Google Maps
- LangChain
- OpenAI
- HeyGen
- Bootstrap 5
Glazed
Artisan donuts, Pip the baker guide, and the Harbor shop pin.
- Flip-card product gallery
- Pip assistant with HeyGen intro
- Harbor shop map pin
- WebGL
- Three.js
- Google Maps
- LangChain
- HeyGen
- Bootstrap 5
Middle East الشرق الأوسط
Eight bilingual cultural atlases — history, food, and music in English or Arabic.
- EN/AR atlases across eight countries
- Maps and 3D timeline
- Local AI guides per country
- Bootstrap 5
- Google Maps
- LangChain
- HeyGen
- WebGL
- JavaScript
HeyGen Hub
Avatar video library and API expert for presenter-led clips.
- Public video and avatar library
- API expert with knowledge RAG
- Streaming avatar sessions
- HeyGen API
- LangChain
- PostgreSQL
- Bootstrap 5
- JavaScript
Planetarium
NASA planet worlds, a full-sky dome with Carl AstroAI, and the zodiac wheel.
- Interactive sky dome with live ISS
- ISS station world — modules and crew
- Astrology — Rose reads twelve sign cards
- Carl AstroAI voice guide
- NASA WebGPU planet worlds
- WebGPU
- WebGL
- Three.js
- astronomy-engine
- LangChain
- LiveKit
- Bootstrap 5
Entertainment
Late-night toys — boombox, visualizer, and black-light posters.
- The Boombox audio player
- Psychedelic canvas visualizer
- Sound-reactive WebGPU black-light poster
- WebGPU
- Web Audio
- JavaScript
- Bootstrap
Explore · Discover · Create
Creative exploration meets technical craft — history, discovery, and technology in one place. From Grateful Dead tours to AI fish ID, Lane heritage to Glazed on Harbor, black-light entertainment, and bilingual Middle East atlases, each tool is built with curiosity and care.
Stack: WebGL and WebGPU where canvases paint, LiveKit rooms, OpenAI Vision, Google Maps, MusicBrainz, LangChain assistants, Bootstrap, and vanilla JS — each project card shows the stack that actually powers it.