Spicy
Proprietor · Head of seasoning
Decides how much heat a project can take. Usually more than you’d think.
Artisanal intelligence, hand‑rolled.
Meatball Labs takes the confident, slightly wrong output of large language models and finishes it by hand until it is confident and right. It is slow food for software.
Retired from our vocabulary, effective immediately
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Most AI copy is written by no one, for no one, about nothing in particular. We find that rude.
So we read every word the machine writes. Then we read it again, slowly, with the posture of a sommelier who has been handed a box of wine.The house
Everything the lab makes, each in its own clothes. Spicy and Bear dream these up here; every one keeps the look of the site it lives on, so the shelf looks like a shelf of different books, which it is.
tinymachines
Chips rebuilt from photographs of their own dies: a transistor-level 6502, a switch-level NES, and the style kit the family wears.
tinymachines.aiIrisSysForgeForged, not generated.
Automation with the hammer marks left in, as proof. The platform the lab builds its machines on.
sysforge.aiOchre
Data, made visible. A slot is held and the mark is drawn; the site is not answering yet.
vizminSpruce
Stacked night skies: phone frames of the same sky, aligned and summed in the browser. Plum is held and the mark is drawn; the site is not answering yet.
AstroStackPlum
Victory Text
Texting with a shield. Rose, the family red, is its slot in the muted set; at home it wears its own red.
victorytext.comRose
A desk for an author's book: bring the manuscript, read it, and invite early readers who leave notes by the passage. It wears Sage in the family.
amy.ioSage
snailmail.ai
8-bit Sluggy, the first site in the electric set. Arriving by the slowest route available, which is the point.
snailmail.aiLime
Flux
A phi in orbit. Violet is held for it in the electric set and the mark is drawn; no site answers yet.
FluxViolet
gopher
Digs up what is going on near home: every company within five miles, who is hiring, and what the news says about them.
gopher.bradley.ioCyan
Entropy source
hotbits
True random bytes from radioactive decay: a Geiger counter on a Pi, bits taken from the timing between events.
hotbits.tinymachines.aiEmberThe boneyard
Experiments that ran, taught something, and were switched off. Kept, because the bones are where the next ideas come from.
below12 restingBrad’s work is next door.The client platforms, the resume and the instruments live at bradley.io. The lab keeps the weird stuff.
bradley.io →
The boneyard
Twelve experiments that once answered at their own address, retired on 3 October 2026. Each worked, for a while, and taught something on the way out. Dates are from their own repositories; where there is no repository, the stone says only what the address did at the end.
- swrmtinymachines.aiOct 2025 · retired 3 Oct 2026
A swarm of browsers: ten Raspberry Pis, a hundred Playwright slots, Celery and Redis keeping time. Built in five days; its front door leaked its own hostname to the very end.
- llarptinymachines.aiAug to Oct 2025 · retired 3 Oct 2026
The Lazarus Network: every request out through a different one of sixteen VPN exits across the country, round robin. 168 commits. This was its stats window.
- guzltinymachines.aiAug 2025 · retired 3 Oct 2026
A headless browser on the command line: point it at a page, get back a screenshot and the DOM. Three commits, then swrm did it a hundred at a time.
- tgmitinymachines.aiNov to Dec 2025 · retired 3 Oct 2026
TinyGrad Inspector: looked inside neural networks while they trained and drew what it saw. The box it lived on stopped answering first.
- rfhtinymachines.aiNov to Dec 2025 · retired 3 Oct 2026
Rust for Haters: lectures turned into a searchable book with PDFs, rebuilt every hour. Learning, for people who would rather not.
- umbratinymachines.aiSep to Oct 2025 · retired 3 Oct 2026
Began as a framework for data apps, grew virtual machines and remote desktops, and was renamed Clarion: “Own Your Morning.” It did not own October.
- sdrtinymachines.aiMay 2026 · retired 3 Oct 2026
The radio stack on bali: an RTL2838 dongle and the software to listen with it. It fed the scanner page on bradley.io until the box went quiet.
- tilestinymachines.airetired 3 Oct 2026
Map tiles, served from this machine. The tiles moved to another disk; the address never followed them.
- bigballstinymachines.airetired 3 Oct 2026
Lived on a machine down the hall that stopped answering. What it was went with the machine, which is a lesson of its own.
- overlaytinymachines.airetired 3 Oct 2026
A static page that never got its certificate. On the modern web, that is the same as not existing.
- prismmeatball.airetired 3 Oct 2026
Promised a project. Served the web server’s default page, “It works,” which was never quite true.
- roboticsmeatball.airetired 3 Oct 2026
A door for the robots that only ever answered 404. The sign went up; the shop never opened.
The proprietors
Meatball Labs is owned and operated by two people, which is exactly enough to disagree productively.
Bear
Proprietor · Chief taster
Nothing leaves the kitchen until Bear has tried it. Has sent things back.
Testimonials
Every agency site has this section, so here is ours.
We asked a language model to write some testimonials. It produced four thousand words about unlocking synergies across a rich tapestry of stakeholders.
We deleted them. That is the service, and you just saw it performed for free.