04 / PLAY, TEST, REPEAT

A little lab for big ideas.

Useful tools, open-source signals, and experiments from the original site — rebuilt as a place to keep exploring.

01 / PATTERN MATCHING

Regex playground

Test JavaScript expressions locally. Your text stays in this browser.

0 MATCHES

No matches yet. Try a different expression or test string.

Evaluation runs in a separate worker with a 500 ms limit and up to 500 displayed matches.

INTERACTIVE / SYSTEM ANATOMY

A pool, in three slots.

BORROW → QUERY → RETURN
FIG. 01CONNECTION POOL
A three-connection pool with a waiting room0 connections are busy, 0 requests are waiting. Three server cartridges stand on a bench above six waiting-room positions.
Borrowed Available0 / 6 waiting

SMALL CAPACITY. SHARED EFFICIENTLY.

One connection. One request at a time.

Fill the three slots, then send another request. It waits until a query finishes and returns its connection to the pool.

Connections busy
0 / 3
Waiting
0
Completed
0
  1. Connection 1Available
  2. Connection 2Available
  3. Connection 3Available

Send a request to borrow the first connection.

Illustrative model: 3 connections and a 6-request waiting room. Requests stay in your browser.

06 / OPEN-SOURCE SIGNALS

Tech radar

Following the signal…

Public GitHub search results. Cached to respect API limits.

07 / EXPLORE

A view from Kazakhstan

RATES & WEATHER

Loading currency and weather signals…

FOREIGN CURRENCY → KZT

Keeping an eye on the tenge.

How much one unit of each currency converts to in Kazakhstani tenge.

Rates by Exchange Rate API

ALMATY / ASTANA / SHYMKENT

A little closer to home.

Current weather model conditions from Open-Meteo.

Weather by Open-Meteo

08 / EXPLORE

The experiment archive

SAVED MONTHLY FEATURES

ARCHIVED EXPERIMENT / 2026-09

AI automation: Monthly AI Feature

Automatically generated feature from current trend data.

15.6 modeled hours saved

Original illustrative model: 52 baseline hours × 0.6 efficiency × input / 100. This is an experiment, not a measured outcome.

Source: google trends · KZ · Captured 2026-09-17

Explore earlier experiments 5 saved entries +

ARCHIVED EXPERIMENT / 2026-02

News-to-Action Digest: Turn Trending “новости” Into Team-Ready Updates

Build a lightweight internal digest that converts high-volume news queries into actionable, non-political operational updates for product and engineering teams. The feature pulls headlines from approved sources, clusters duplicates, summarizes in plain English, and routes items i

12.0 modeled hours saved

Original illustrative model: 80 baseline hours × 0.6 efficiency × input / 100. This is an experiment, not a measured outcome.

Source: google trends · KZ · Captured 2026-02-18

ARCHIVED EXPERIMENT / 2026-05

Rocket Launch Watch: A Developer-Friendly Space Events Digest

Build a monthly, portfolio-ready feature that turns trending interest in космонавтика (cosmonautics) into a practical product: a lightweight “Space Events Digest” that aggregates upcoming rocket launches, mission milestones, and livestream links, then summarizes them into a clean

  1. Source discovery & schemaIdentify 2–3 reliable sources (official agency pages, launch schedule sites, RSS/Atom feeds). Define a normalized event schema: mission_name, provider, vehicle, window_start, window_end, location, liv0.8 weeks
  2. Ingestion pipelineImplement fetchers with retries, rate limiting, and HTML-to-structured extraction where needed. Store raw payloads for traceability. Schedule daily runs and emit structured events into a database.1.2 weeks
  3. Deduplication & quality rulesAdd canonicalization (time rounding, name normalization), fuzzy matching for mission names, and conflict resolution (prefer official sources). Flag uncertain fields and track provenance per attribute.0.9 weeks
  4. Summaries & localizationGenerate short, factual summaries from structured fields (not freeform scraping). Provide English UI copy and allow optional RU/KZ labels. Add guardrails: no speculation, include source links, and sho1 weeks
  5. Mobile-first UI + calendar exportBuild a feed with filters (This week / This month / By provider) and an event detail view. Add ICS export and deep links to livestreams. Implement caching and skeleton loading for slow networks.1.1 weeks

Source: google trends · KZ · Captured 2026-05-02

ARCHIVED EXPERIMENT / 2026-06

eGov KZ Task Automator: One-Click Document Checklist + Status Tracker

Build a lightweight web app that helps users and support teams prepare and track common eGov KZ requests (e.g., certificates, registrations) without storing sensitive data. The feature generates a step-by-step checklist, required document list, and a shareable progress link. It a

  1. Scope top 5 workflows + content modelSelect the most common eGov KZ tasks for your audience, define required documents/steps per workflow, and design a JSON schema for checklists, prerequisites, and help text.0.8 weeks
  2. MVP UI: checklist + progress + share linkImplement a mobile-first checklist with progress indicator, step details, and a shareable read-only link (no PII). Add local-only notes per step.1.2 weeks
  3. Copy-ready request summary + templatesGenerate a standardized summary (task, completed steps, missing docs, questions) with one-tap copy. Add templates for support teams to reduce back-and-forth.0.8 weeks
  4. Reminders + offline-first hardeningAdd optional reminders (calendar export or local notifications where supported), cache assets for offline use, and ensure graceful degradation on older mobile browsers.0.7 weeks
  5. QA, accessibility, and analytics (privacy-safe)Test on common KZ devices/browsers, add keyboard and screen-reader support, and implement privacy-safe event tracking (no user content, no identifiers).0.5 weeks

Source: google trends · KZ · Captured 2026-06-02

ARCHIVED EXPERIMENT / 2026-07

Match-Day Automation Pack: Turn Live Sports Spikes into Reliable Ops Signals

A portfolio-ready feature that helps teams prepare for predictable traffic spikes driven by live events. Using the trend keyword as a proxy for a sudden attention surge, this feature guides an engineer or PM through estimating extra support/ops time, selecting a lightweight mitig

2.5 modeled hours saved

Original illustrative model: 120 baseline hours × 0.35 efficiency × input / 100. This is an experiment, not a measured outcome.

Source: google trends · KZ · Captured 2026-07-02

09 / EXPLORE

Following the signals

AI AUDIENCE SNAPSHOT / 2026-10-12

Attention, by the article.

Weekly audience proxy based on en.wikipedia.org pageviews for each AI product article. This is not unique active users.

ChatGPT273,871 views
Claude2,865 views
Gemini916 views
Copilot7,570 views
Perplexity12,525 views
DeepSeek19,257 views

Last saved weekly pageviews, not active users. Generated 2026-10-19 by Wikimedia Pageviews API.

About the source

DATABASE POPULARITY / Nov 2026

The database landscape.

A saved view of DB-Engines rankings. Popularity describes the ecosystem, not fitness for a project.

Saved DB-Engines database popularity rankings
Rank / DatabaseScoreMonthly change
01Oracle1096.2-23.64
02MySQL823.2-14.73
03Microsoft SQL Server693.5-0.94
04PostgreSQL689.7+0.93
05MongoDB366.1-8.50
06Snowflake218.3-3.01
07Databricks176.8+5.52
08Redis163.3+7.20
09IBM Db2102.1-4.19
10Apache Cassandra98.4-0.45
View current rankings

10 / A FAMILIAR INTERFACE

System console

BROWSER SIMULATION

namazbek@almaty: ~

Welcome to Namazbek’s small corner of the terminal.

Type help to explore. This is a browser simulation.

11 / EXPLORE

Daily engineering resources

The learning platforms, communities, and tools I keep close.