Sam Gutentag

SBA Parking

A parking tracker for Santa Barbara Airport that polls the live feed every 5 minutes and keeps every reading instead of throwing it away, so a chart can answer "will short-term still have room in 20 minutes" instead of just "how full is it right now."

Hacker News Radio

A daily podcast generated from the Hacker News front page. Top stories and comment threads scripted into a two-host show, voiced with Deepgram Flux TTS, published as a real RSS feed with chapters and transcripts.

solarGain

How much of the AC bill is really the roof? Pulls Home Assistant sensor history into a self-contained thermal dashboard, then models ridge vents and R-38 insulation against the house’s own fitted response before spending a dollar.

Homage to the Square

A generative Josef Albers painting that watches your local weather. Temperature sets the hue, the sky sets saturation, the sun moves the squares, fog merges them, and humidity picks three squares or four. All drawn in code, all color in OKLCH.

BCycle Map

Real-time bike-share dashboard for Santa Barbara BCycle. Live station status, trip flow animations, and route exploration from public GBFS data.

SB Coffee Week Map

Interactive map for Santa Barbara Coffee Week 2026. Find participating shops, track visits, plan your route.

SB Burger Week Map

Interactive map for Santa Barbara Burger Week. Browse participating restaurants and their featured burgers.

SB Sandwich Week Map

Interactive map for Santa Barbara Sandwich Week 2026. 40+ restaurants, live "eyes" on recently-viewed pins, a mobile detail sheet that keeps the map visible, and privacy-respecting geo demand, all on a no-build static site.

Yelp Subtopics, Revisited

Took my own 8-year-old NLP side project and rebuilt it with modern tools. BERTopic, zero-shot classification, and an LLM insight layer instead of the old hand-rolled pipeline.

Gutentag, World!

100+ repos that each say "Gutentag, World!" in a different language. Python, Rust, COBOL, Befunge, a DNS TXT record, you name it.