Protocol-Native Applications
A body of protocol-native experiments. PBJ, Leafroll, Glowrm, and more, rethinking dating, professional networking, and trust for a world where identity is portable and software is built on an open protocol. See the ATProto work →
A deployable reference for live audio rooms on ATProto. Sign in with ATProto OAuth, create a room, publish its metadata, and connect audio through LiveKit — then fork the repo and run your own version.
The advanced-analytics site I always wanted for pesäpallo, Finland’s national baseball variant — a sport I’ve followed, podcasted, and broadcast for over a decade. League-indexed stats (TEHO+), DARKO-style projections, the sport’s first published park factors, and Monte Carlo playoff odds, built on the official results data — plus a map that translates any player’s season into baseball terms. A lifelong baseball fan’s bridge between two cousin sports.
Earth’s first-ever team tennis computer game. College-format dual matches, a junior recruiting circuit, and GTT — a co-ed pro league — all on one continuous rating scale, driven by a deterministic point-by-point Python engine. Platform reuse in practice: a second sport stood up on a forked deterministic engine — directed, not hand-coded.
A webinar with Netlify (June 2025) on the opportunity space emerging in the nascent practice of (AI) agent experience — AX.
A statewide sports-rating engine, playoff simulator, and live tournament toolkit for Oregon high school tennis. Four years of data, four original rating models, and a working analytics layer (Power Index, FWS, FWS+, TOSS) running across every classification — built end to end as one self-contained system.
Cap Buffet builds salary-cap systems from reusable mechanics and tests any league against them. Eighteen cap parts, fourteen leagues, eight currencies, all in the browser. Home to Lottery Lab, its draft-lottery sibling, and a directed agent build.
A talk from DrupalCon 2018 in Nashville on the award-winning redesign of the Bloomington, Indiana municipal website onto Drupal.
Baseball restructured into one continuous 27-out half per side — a full simulated world with its own stats, economy, and history. A deterministic simulation platform, directed not hand-coded — documented across 140+ engineering decision records.
An invented gridiron sport with its own rulebook, a probability engine that plays it, a 280-team universe to play it in, and a terminal-style stats portal serving the whole thing — with a custom analytics framework built specifically for the sport’s mechanics. Directed agent build — ~110K lines of directed code across ~60 decision records.
My 2019 Donut.js talk on what pesäpallo, Finland’s national baseball variant, taught me about game design.
For each of seven Portland-area voter-approved funds, what it could pay for at its current balance, what’s blocking that, and who controls the lever.
A better matching model for dating apps, built on a speculative algorithm I designed that uses game mechanics and behavioral analytics to match people.
A live participatory piece on worldbuilding, speculative governance, and what we owe our neighbors. The site is offline; a documentation video remains.
Tennis Polo is pretty straightforward. Two teams try to score goals using a tennis-sized ball, defended by a goalkeeper holding a tennis racket. The team with the most points wins. A sport I invented by accident at summer camp in 2004.
Trust infrastructure for ATProto social applications. Cross-app reputation, shared moderation, and a configurable resource-allocation system — the trust plumbing YGF and two other reference apps were designed against.
A professional network built on ATProto. Leafroll is built on earned, bilateral relationships and identity you carry with you, one of several protocol-native experiments.
Reach me at contact@ronbronson.com.