Cameron Rye

There's a Gemini capsule out there with an imaginary plant on it.

For most of July, the last gate before production on this site failed about four times in ten.

A few months ago I published an essay arguing that llms.txt is an elegant solution to a problem nobody important is willing to solve.

Ask Google "what temperature should I roast a chicken at," and Google answers you.

Aranet is a Rust implementation for connecting to Aranet environmental sensors via Bluetooth Low Energy.

My Aranet4 has been sitting on my desk for over a year.

In 2026, the best way to read the internet is a 29-year-old technology that most people think died with Google Reader.

Zero Crust is a POS simulator that explores architectural patterns for quick-service restaurant operations.

Point-of-sale systems come with a specific architectural constraint.

Portfolio sites are inherently passive.

Uzumaki is an interactive spiral visualization app that renders ten mathematical spiral algorithms across web and Apple platforms.

Spirals appear everywhere in nature.

ClarissaBot is a conversational AI assistant that helps users understand vehicle safety information.

Vehicle safety data exists in public databases, but getting at it means knowing where to look and how to read complex government datasets.

Clarissa is a command-line AI agent built with Bun and Ink.

Building Clarissa started as a learning exercise.

A 3.5" floppy disk held just 1.44 megabytes, yet it remains one of the most recognizable artifacts in computing.

The 3.5-inch floppy disk is still one of the most recognizable icons in personal computing.

DosKit brings classic DOS software to modern browsers through WebAssembly emulation.

The DOS era produced a lot of software worth keeping around: demos, games, and the productivity apps people ran for years.

A convincing frosted glass effect is never one backdrop-filter line.

Frosted glass is everywhere in interface design right now: translucent panels, blurred backgrounds, and thin borders that give a layout some depth.

ClaytonRye.com is a digital archive of Clayton Rye's work as an award-winning documentary filmmaker, Vietnam War veteran, and Professor Emeritus at Ferris State University.

Today, October 29, 2025, my father Clayton Rye turns 77.

The Web Audio API is one of the most ambitious and controversial additions to the web platform.

A static diagram of the Circle of Fifths can show you that adjacent keys sit a perfect fifth apart, but it cannot let you hear it.

The Circle of Fifths packs a surprising amount of music theory into a simple circular diagram, encoding the harmonic relationships between all twelve keys.

Thirty-two years ago today, on October 7, 1993, Future Crew released Second Reality at Assembly '93 in Helsinki, Finland.

The small internet never went away.

I wired Gopher, a protocol from 1991, into an MCP server so AI assistants can read it.

There's something beautifully ironic happening on the web right now.

The AT Protocol MCP Server bridges AI assistants with Bluesky and the decentralized social web.

I built the AT Protocol MCP Server to let LLMs talk directly to the AT Protocol, the network behind Bluesky and a growing set of other decentralized social apps.

This analysis builds upon Dan Abramov's excellent explanation of AT Protocol in "Open Social", examining the deeper technical architecture trade-offs and governance implications of decentralized social media infrastructure.

AI agents can now run external tools and reach into system resources, and the security model most software execution relies on wasn't built for that.

The ActivityPub MCP Server connects AI assistants to the Fediverse, the decentralized social network that includes Mastodon, Pixelfed, and thousands of other instances.

I built the ActivityPub MCP Server, a Model Context Protocol implementation that lets LLMs like Claude explore and interact with the Fediverse over ActivityPub.

Electromagnetic wavelengths run from femtometers to kilometers, more than twenty orders of magnitude.

I built an interactive explorer for the electromagnetic spectrum.

Put a Wikipedia ZIM archive on disk, point the server at it, and Claude can search and read those articles with the network cable unplugged.

Most AI assistants stop being useful the moment they lose internet access.

I've spent more than a decade building distributed systems, and the Model Context Protocol is the first thing in a while that's changed how I think about connecting AI models to the outside world.

Every web developer has run into this: the metadata a site exposes lives in a different place on every site.