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.
Bookmarklets
Javascript snippets to add to your bookmarks bar. Hope they're useful!
- Color Inverter
- Color Picker
- Internet Archive Checker
- Internet Archiver
- Markdown Extractor
- RSS Extractor
- RSS Feed Finder
- Webmention Checker
- Word Counter
Challenges
Because I work well with deadlines combined with social accountability, I enjoy creating and participating in month-long creative challenges. You're welcome to do so to!
- No-Vember: Make 30 webpages, each with a different limitation. Discover what you can create when you say no to certain tools and techniques.
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
- Upside-down
- Doubles
- Unicode
- Transition
- Illumination
- Trading
- Bounce
- Hidden
- Language
- Memory
- Style
- Counter
- Empty
- Texture
- Spell
- Tables
- Surprise
- Deprecated
- Spooky