Weather · Forecast experiments
Atmos Local
A weather dashboard that brings backyard observations, ensemble forecasts, radar, and model comparisons into one place. Exploring how forecasts hold up against the weather that actually arrives.
Technology, business,
and things in progress.
Independent thoughts by Jonathan Ferrell ↗
From the notebook
Ideas, tested in the real worldcodex / Featured essay
The instructions worth keeping
How reusable skills carry the useful corrections from one run into the next, using Leaf Lane’s content workflow as an example.
Read the essay
More to think about
All articles ↗customer service01
After the call, who does what?
A useful call record keeps requests, promises, owners, and next steps clear—and checks that the follow-up actually happens.
Oct 7, 2026
ai agents02
A personal agent for the family admin
School emails, meal plans, grocery orders, and appointment calls: a few everyday jobs to try with a personal AI agent.
Oct 7, 2026
ai agents03
An AI workspace for everyday business
Voice, shared pages, reusable skills, and scheduled tasks give teams practical ways to work with agents.
Oct 7, 2026
On the workbench
All projects ↗Less talking. More making.
Experiments, side projects, and things
I’m figuring out as I go.
Marketplace · AI collaboration
Zingposts
A marketplace for interesting cars, boats, machinery, and other finds. Exploring how people and their own AI agents can research and work through a deal together.
Decisions · Shared work
Socialsum
A shared workspace for people and their agents to gather evidence, challenge ideas, and work toward a decision. An experiment in making collaboration visible.
Writing & publishing
Leaf Lane
A personal home for writing about technology and business, collecting useful links, and documenting what I’m building.
Robotics · Simulation
Robot Sim
A mobile robot experiment in Webots, exploring how an agent can navigate rooms, inspect objects, and attempt small manipulation tasks. Camera evidence and physical scoring are tracked separately.
Making · Parametric design
AI-to-3D Printing
A growing library of small objects and mechanisms built with OpenSCAD and a Bambu printer. Keeping the design, sliced build, and observed print result together makes each iteration easier to inspect.
Agents · Home hardware
Roomba Agent Tools
A local toolkit for reading a Roomba’s status and giving an agent a small set of cleaning controls. Exploring useful device access while keeping credentials and unrestricted commands out of the tool interface.
Email · Classification
Jev Mail
An email review tool that separates category, reply intent, action, and urgency. It keeps model predictions and human corrections side by side so uncertain messages can get a closer look.
Voice · Practice & feedback
Customer Interaction Coaching
A prototype for turning customer-call transcripts into scorecards and focused practice. Exploring whether specific feedback and AI roleplay can give teams something useful to work on between calls.