Stackime.
Anime discovery & tracking
Find your next favorite anime.
Discover a new series, track what you're watching, and explore the community's shared shelf. A home for the stories that stay with you.
One tab. Many worlds.
Anime, games, and experiments. A world of things I design and build for the web.
Independent projects by Joel Ryan
Drag the world to turn it. Choose another to keep exploring.
The Lab.
An interactive 3D experiment
Take the strange way.
Cross a frozen landscape, enter the frost chamber, and follow the light into a crystal gallery. Explore the interactive scene or read its still edition.
The Arena.
A multiplayer browser game
Ready for one more round?
A first-person arena in your browser. Take on the bots, try a new loadout, or bring a friend into the next match. Open it and play.
AXON.
A product interface study
Complex ideas, made clear.
An interactive study in making software understandable. Try the interface and read the thinking behind it. A product concept you can actually touch.
Find your next rabbit hole.
Four independent projects.
Open whichever pulls you in.
Stackime
A place for your next obsession.
Find your next obsession. Discover anime, track what you're watching, and explore the community's shared shelf.
- Discover a series
- Keep a watchlist
- Explore the shared shelf
Browse first. Sign in when you want to keep a list.
The Lab
Follow the light a little further.
Cross a frozen landscape, explore a frost chamber, and descend into its crystal gallery. An interactive browser experiment with a readable still edition.
- Cross the frozen landscape
- Enter the frost chamber
- Find the crystal gallery
Explore the scene, or take your time with the still edition.
The Arena
One tab. One more round.
A whole arena in a browser tab. Drop in solo, take on the bots, or bring your friends along.
- Play solo against bots
- Choose your loadout
- Link up with a squad
Battle royale and team deathmatch, right in the browser.
AXON
See the thinking behind the interface.
An interactive study in making complex software understandable. A product concept, brought into focus.
- Follow a sample trace
- Inspect the approval gate
- Read the design decisions
An interactive design study. The example runs no external actions.
Made out of curiosity.
Hey, I'm Joel. I design and build things for the web, usually because a small idea refuses to leave me alone.
This is where those ideas end up. Some are useful. Some are just fun. Each one is built in public, with notes on what worked and what didn't.
Meet the builderNotes from the process.
All notesLabel a prototype so readers can evaluate the real work
Use AXON to separate live interface behavior, simulated data, design targets, and unavailable actions, with a practical copy and review method.
Camera smoothing: exponential damping or a spring?
Compare two camera-follow models with a working response plot, a frame-rate-independent damping formula, and an exact critically damped spring step.
Browser multiplayer with Supabase: transport, state, and trust
Follow Signal Strike’s relay and browser-host design, work through snapshot interpolation and message counts, and identify which guarantees the architecture cannot provide.