Hi! I'm Zachary Kai. Inspired by James and Joe, to experiment and to avoid breaking my live sites, I've created this minisite to play around in and test stuff. Below is a list of everything here. Have fun browsing! For more of what I make, see my book blog, independent press, and personal site.
Experiments
Random esoterica and things I wished to make I couldn't fit anywhere else. The site's shoebox!
- 256 Byte Webpage [17 Sep 2025]
Weird Web October
Each tenth month of the year, Jay Zuerndorfer organizes Weird Web October. Each day, you make a website inspired by a prompt.
2025
- Transparency: a blackout poem, taken from Gatsby quotes.
- Maps: a prose poem with a cartographical theme.
- Scramble: a window into my usual state of mind.
- Filters: in which I ask for the help of a baleen whale.
- Remix: a prose poem about how the entire universe is a remix.
- Solids: a musing on the foolish dream of the solid state.
- Sub-optimal: a mini essay on the pursuit of optimization.
- Containers: because we're all in and surrounded by these.
- Blink: don't forget to do it.
- Warning: some of these are made to be heeded. Take note.
- Camera: this is what photography can teach you.
- Battle: a poem about being wary of artificial divides.
- Upside-Down lost in the dizzying confusion of it all.
- Doubles: consciousness split in two (or not?)
- Unicode: the fabled character system as a library.
- Transition: an ode to the internet's design system.
- Illumination: fragments of thoughts on light and shadow.
- Trading: because it's a good one we make here.
- Bounce: a reminder that if you don't, you'll break.
- Hidden: let the light in, but don't let it overpower.
- Language: it's always and forever changing.
- Memory: to exist is to always embrace the tension.
- Style: my (perhaps) foolish love of the serif.
- Counter: the usable vs the exceptional is infinitesimal.
- Empty: don't feel you have to always fill the void.