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JeffMickelson.com · version 0
I build thoughtful systems, practical operators’ tools, and the occasional small thing full of heart.
I spend my days in analytics, automation, and operations. Outside that, I like building web experiments,
documenting how they came together, and making things my family can actually use. This is the beginning of a
personal site for those projects and notes. Right now, the first one is a Mother's Day puzzle made from our
family's drawings.
A Mother’s Day puzzle built from real family drawings.
My daughter and I pulled together a year’s worth of saved kid-art, turned the drawings into playable puzzle boards,
and made something my wife could enjoy in the browser. It is warm, a little handmade, and surprisingly satisfying to solve.
Multiple artworks, three difficulty modes, and an “All Together” board that pulls every artist into one collage.
How it was built
Static HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript with Canvas2D puzzle logic. No framework, no build step, no extra deployment complexity.
Why it’s here
It is the first public artifact on the site, and a good example of the kind of work I want this home base to feature over time.
Live below
The puzzle still stands on its own, and you can play it right here.
The standalone version lives at /puzzle/. This embed uses the same local page so the bridge homepage can feature the work without changing the puzzle itself.
/puzzle/ · standalone experience
The puzzle is loading…
Pulling the artwork archive into the standalone player.
The live embed could not load cleanly.
The standalone puzzle is still available and should work normally.
A small home for projects, notes, and the systems thinking behind them.
This repo is a bridge, not the final container. The next step is a dedicated personal-site repo with room for more projects,
writing, and a cleaner long-term structure. For now, this page gives the puzzle a better home and establishes the voice of the site.
Projects: more public builds beyond the puzzle, with enough context to explain why they exist.
Notes: short writing on systems, making, and the experiments that are worth keeping.
Dedicated repo: a proper long-term home for JeffMickelson.com once there is enough real material to justify it.