Built for the year 3000
Y3K Lab is a personal incubator for retro-futurist experiments: a workshop where software, hardware, and ideas are made real.
The RC car club - building, racing, bashing, and crawling scale 4×4 off-road rigs, all in Y3K livery.
Home Assistant, personal infrastructure, and the admin/finances stack - a household running on Y3K.
The 3D-print crew - filament-fed prototypes, parts, and one-off props, stamped with the Y3K look.
A faithful remake of Stuart Cheshire's Bolo - the 1987 multiplayer tank-battle classic. Claim bases, build pillboxes, hold the island.
All about building and launching model rockets, with a name not to be confused with "two-stage rockets."
The family's barbecue brand - grilling, smoking, and the data that goes with them. The flame does the talking.
Free DIY how-tos at guides.y3klab.com. // Spotlight is hand-curated - drop the guides to feature into the three tiles below.
The structural constitution every Y3K surface obeys - how everything is organized: a node describes itself, by the same rule, at every depth.
Every node describes itself, by the same rule, at every depth - so there is no index to keep: the structure is the index. A folder's primary document carries the folder's name; every file that represents its container takes the container's name, never a generic one.
A really, really, ridiculously good-looking theme - the Y3K palette on Claude Code, plus a live status bar. Free download.
A tiny operating system for your projects - spin up, shelve, archive, and index a personal portfolio from the terminal. Free download.
The pure-bash, themeable terminal-UI engine that renders Y3K - and owns the canonical machine-readable palette. The most central component.
The design language every experiment wears - a neon magenta→cyan ramp, double-line wordmarks, and brief power-on motion. The family's always-lit source of colour.
Shell, terminal (Ghostty), and tool configs - the palette carried across the everyday environment.
Experiments conducted outside the lab, in the real world.
Every habitat registered with Monarch Watch since 2005, overlaid with weekly monarch sightings from iNaturalist. Habitat dots turn from green to orange when monarchs are sighted nearby. Press play to watch a migration cycle.
A home battery that charges when power is cheap and discharges when it is expensive, timed by a solar forecast fitted to this house. The forecast is graded daily against measured production.