About the lab
I’m Brian Foster — senior UI engineer by day, experimental cheese scientist by night. This site is the messy lab notebook: current software, dead ends, dormant projects, physical experiments, old portfolio pieces, AI toys, and the occasional rant.
- Rabin Forest — Personal AI playground
- LinkedIn — Professional profile
- GitHub — Code dumps and experiments
- brianfoster.net — Resume & original portfolio (preserved)
Projects
Current
AskGWINnettChat-first civic info for Gwinnett County — taxes, parks, traffic, meetings, and more, with sources attached.
CallmataPrivate family video rooms — tap to call, push + SMS alerts, self-register with your own code.
Lost CorridorsBackrooms-inspired browser maze — liminal halls, WebGL, and a world that keeps growing.
TellspinnersAI bedtime stories with illustrations, narration, and choose-your-own adventures.
Rabin ForestPersonal AI playground — Gemini assistant, chat experiments, and forest vibes.
Failed
Popup BookfailedAmbitious interactive popup-book experiment that sprawled faster than the mechanisms could keep up. Shelved, not forgotten.
AI services
Capabilities from bfoster-services — the backend behind Rabin Forest and related experiments. The specimen cooker above is the live AI toy on this site.
- Gemini assistant
Personal assistant trained on Brian’s info — powers chat experiments on Rabin Forest.
- OpenAI assistant
Thread-managed ChatGPT assistant endpoints from bfoster-services.
- Image generation
DALL·E / Imagen pipelines for stills — also the stack behind this lab’s cheese specimen cooker.
- TTS / read-aloud
OpenAI narration used by Tellspinners and related story tools.
- Odometer CV
Computer-vision mileage verification — production AI work wired through the same service layer.
Rants
All rantsOld portfolio
Mirrored from brianfoster.net — kept there for posterity, showcased here in the lab.
UI/UX
- Whoop - Everything MobileDefunct
Whoop Admin Dashboard: white-label portal work from wireframes and UX through production UI.
Archived whoop.com - Concurrent Technology Inc. (now Vecima)
ConcurrentECS KPI dashboard with d3.js, AngularJS, and Bootstrap for server-farm status.
ccur.com - Silk Information SystemsDefunct
Silk EMR — responsive electronic medical records UI for desktops and tablets.
Archived silkisi.com
Proof of Concept
- Find Me Places
Meeting-location finder for two or three people — Angular 7, Material, Google Maps.
fmp.rabinforest.com - Ionic 1.1 Demo
Ionic + Firebase demo with a custom Header-Scroll-Out directive for mobile scroll chrome.
gist.github.com/sg-bfoster
