cdc-wonder-cod is a Shiny app to visualize CDC WONDER’s Underlying Cause of Death dataset. This app was featured in a guest lecture I delivered at Rollins College on modern data visualization and communication techniques. Self-hosted on my homelab with Docker compose and served via Cloudflare tunneling for secure delivery. Currently offline for maintenance.

SPOOKI-DB is a simple database explorer inspired by the SCP Foundation that uses JavaScript to query and load dynamic content from an Airtable backend. Content for SPOOKI-DB is generated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Dall-E 3.

Vex Mythoclast: Containerization for Survival Analysis in R was a project to reverse-engineer and model the drop rate for an exceptionally rare in-game item in the Destiny 2 videogame. The analysis employed Docker and R to scrape and analyze extracted API data in parallel. This write-up was published to Reddit r/DestinyTheGame and received over 3.2K upvotes and 40+ awards.

simple-html is a growing collection of single-purpose, dependency-free HTML/JS applets — things like a job application tracker with a Sankey visualization and a Pomodoro timer. Each applet is self-contained and runs directly in your browser. Built iteratively with Claude as a prototyping partner.

strbck.github.io is the website you’re currently browsing. This site is hosted on GitHub Pages and served using Jekyll. The theme for this site was originally designed by b2a3e8. This site serves as a personal blog and portfolio for various web development, homelab, and analytics projects.