GOOD IDEAS
ALSO MAKE
A MESS :)

CBLAB / EXPERIMENTAL DIGITAL LAB

Digital experiments
with a touch of chaos

Code, prototypes and unlikely ideas, built somewhere between coffee, curiosity and the lab of Dr. Charles.

⚗ Enter the lab →
⌘ More code ♥ More ideas ⚠ Safety… negotiable
IT WORKS…
I THINK?
[INFO] Coffee subsystem online [WARN] Duck has admin privileges [OK] Chaos within acceptable limits [INFO] Dr. Charles insists this is under control [WARN] Chimera containment: questionable

CURRENT EXPERIMENT / #0099

Project Chimera

It began as a tiny experiment. At this point, nobody remembers what the original objective was.

CB-X0099 RUNNING
CORE41°C

Containment stability

72%

Stable enough to continue. Probably.

09:41:02 [OK] Containment field initialized
09:41:05 [INFO] Coffee dependency resolved
09:41:08 [WARN] Unknown process named chimera.exe
Experiment progress72%
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Please do not press buttons without supervision.

EXPERIMENTS THAT SURVIVED

Things that almost look like products.

Some experiments become useful. We try not to ask how.

#0042SURPRISINGLY USEFUL
⌂

Home Lab

Services, automations, containers and hardware that definitely did not need this many VLANs.

Self-hostedAutomationNetworking
Stability 88%
#0064EXPERIMENTAL
◉

Local AI

Local models, imaginary small GPUs and the eternal question: why is it still thinking?

OllamaLLMsLocal-first
Patience 37%
#0081DO NOT TOUCH
⌘

Tiny Tools

Small utilities built to solve problems that may only exist inside this lab.

CodeUtilitiesBecause why not?
Scope creep 91%

LAB SYSTEMS

Tools for containment.

🦆
AUTO-DEBUG DUCK

Explain the bug to the duck.

It judges in silence and occasionally offers statistically questionable wisdom.

›_
SECRET TERMINAL

Hidden commands live here.

Try help, status, duck, chimera, coffee, whoami or sudo.

LAB NOTES

Notes found on unattended sticky paper.

NOTE / 01

Working definition of success

If it solves the problem and does not become sentient before lunch, we count it as a win.

NOTE / 02

On debugging

The logs claim everything is fine. That is exactly why we are worried.

NOTE / 03

On ambition

Project Chimera was supposed to be a progress bar. It now has opinions.

Dr

ABOUT THE SCIENTIST

This lab belongs to Dr. Charles.

Dr. Charles builds curious digital things: experiments, tools, little systems and occasionally ideas that grow far beyond their original scope.

The mission of Cblab.dev is simple: make room for prototypes, playful thinking and projects that sit somewhere between useful, weird and unexpectedly alive.

"Built with code, coffee and statistically acceptable amounts of chaos."
⚗
dr-charles@cblab ~/terminal

[OK] Secure-ish connection to lab established.

Type help to see available commands.