Most personal websites are brochures: a photo, a job title, and a list of skills you have to take on faith. stalane.com works the other way around. It is a public workshop — every project on the front page is a real, working thing you can click, use, and break. Nothing there is a mockup or a promise. If a card says it shows the US national debt, you can open it and watch the numbers move.
A quick tour, in plain language. The Treasury dashboard turns the federal budget — debt, spending, income, interest rates — into charts anyone can read. The sanctions snapshot lets you look up which countries and people face US sanctions, and why. Cloudflare Admin is an AI assistant that builds websites the modern way, with no servers to babysit. And SmartAss is a to-do list with opinions: you paste in a messy task, and it triages, schedules, and checks the work. Students: each one is a free lesson in how real software gets made. Hiring managers: each one is proof, not a bullet point.
Why do it this way? Because building in public keeps you honest — broken things get fixed fast when anyone can see them — and it compounds: every project teaches the next one. If you are a student, start the same way: publish something small, then something bigger. If you are hiring, skip the résumé keyword hunt and click around instead; thirty minutes with the live projects tells you more than thirty interviews. And this blog is now part of the workshop: future posts will narrate what gets built here, one project at a time.
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