Portfolio
One pageNine landscape photographs from the Northern California coast and countryside, sequenced warm to cool. Click any frame for the fullscreen viewer; hover to reveal the original color.
Desk
Two pagesRunning log of what landed on stevenphilley.com — newest first, grouped by day. Updated when the site grows.
Offer page for a static suggestion box with a live Yes / Later / No board. Page Pack $39/yr or Site Care $39/mo — Color It Company.
Tools
Eight pagesA calendar built like a clock. Read the whole year as one engraved dial, or switch to a single month with live hands. Click any day to mark it.
A finance terminal. Live crypto prices from CoinGecko with a scrolling ticker, index snapshots, and business headlines pulled from seven feeds.
Three kinds of percentage math in one place — what a percent of a number is, what one number is as a percent of another, and the change between two figures. Results update as you type.
A focus timer with three sessions — pomodoro, short break, long break — each with its own color. Set your own durations, and a chime marks the end of every round.
A quiet typing tutor. Three difficulty levels, a beginner mode that drills the keys you choose, and a pace chart with words per minute and accuracy at the end of every run.
The nine chakras of the tantric subtle body — name, meaning, element, seed sound, and the qualities each governs — with a sticky scroll-spy rail and petal marks drawn to scale.
Everyday converters hub under /tools/ — temperature first, more to come. Runs in the browser.
Fahrenheit ↔ Celsius, both ways. Type either side; results update live. Freezing, room, body, and boiling presets.
Electronics
Six pagesWatts to amps, amps to watts, watts to volts, Ohm's law, and power from resistance. Runs in the browser.
Beginner interactive trainer — 18 lessons through diode I-V, Kirchhoff, Thévenin, Norton, Superposition, mesh/nodal, BJT CE bias, and MOSFET/FET as a voltage valve.
Interactive 4-band color decoder. Click the bands or type ohms to snap to a nearby E24 value.
Series resistor for an LED from supply volts, forward voltage, and milliamps. Nearest E24 and resistor power.
Zilog Z80 information hub — history, Z80 Retro! and Chinese modular builds, CP/M, homebrew SBCs, and a curated link directory.
Diode + capacitor peak hold (or ideal precision rectifier); Vhold, ripple ≈ I/(fC), and τ = RC live.
Half-wave, full-wave (center-tap), and bridge; peak Vout, fr, and ripple ΔV ≈ I/(fr C) live.
Shunt zener clamp; Vin, Vz, Rs, and Rload → Vout, Iz, and diode / Rs power live.
Library
Shared mediaShared library of freely reusable images (public domain, CC0, and CC BY) with hosted copies for stable embeds across Steven’s sites, plus a machine-readable catalog.json.
Vision
Two pagesIf I could do anything — protect the Amazon, clean air and water, wild life, then the closer rings: Campbell, animals, family, making, music, and seeing.
Public quotes from Steven’s Facebook / Color It Game Studio presence — JSON-driven gallery with site themes and share. Only publicly visible lines; never invented.
Family
Eleven photosFamily photographs from the Philley albums — kitchen gatherings, portraits, graduation, and older prints.
Local
Desk + quakes + literacy + groceries + startersCampbell-area desk for traffic and safety, earthquake history, liquefaction literacy, groceries in season, and past/present/future starters. Nuts, Dolphin Pet Village, DJ, guitar.
USGS-cited essay: what liquefaction is, historic cases, and northern Santa Clara / Campbell scenario maps. Educational — not engineering advice.
Educational timeline of Bay Area quakes with Campbell / South Bay focus — faults, 1838–2014 notables, preparedness literacy. USGS-linked. Not a live alert feed.
Campbell ridiculousness desk — civic soap, water-tower lore, silver ants, Documented vs Lore.
Late-summer / early-fall seasonal grocery notes for Campbell and the South Bay — peak produce, pantry staples, local shopping pointers.
Past, present, and future for Dolphin Pet Village. Empty lanes until the real notes.
Past, present, and future for the DJ hobby. Empty lanes until the real notes.
Past, present, and future for the guitar showcase. Empty lanes until the real notes.
Film Studies
Eight pagesAcademic desk for reading cinema — form, history, television, genres, theory, close watching, and glossary. Distinct from the practical /film/ production desk.
Shot size, angle, camera movement, editing rhythm, sound, and mise-en-scène vocabulary.
Film eras and movements from silent cinema through contemporary — traits and canonical titles.
Readable timeline: mechanical TV, Farnsworth and Zworykin, broadcast, postwar boom, color, cable and satellite, digital, streaming.
Audience contracts — western, noir, melodrama, sci-fi, horror, comedy, documentary — conventions and breaks.
Accessible primers: realism vs formalism, auteur, genre theory, spectatorship, feminist film theory, apparatus.
Close-read a scene — pause points, shot-list template, power-in-the-frame questions, sound vs image.
Plain-language definitions for the vocabulary used across the Film Studies desk.
History
Decades + rushesA guided walk through 1900s–2020s — substantial essays on culture, tech, conflict, and everyday life, with imagined painterly art for each era.
Bronze, iron, gold, silicon, information — a lesson on material ages and the rushes that reshaped who travels, who profits, and who gets left out.
Science
Status + night skyWhere we stand — nanomaterials, robotics, space — plus doors into astronomy, atmosphere, and light pollution.
Solar-system map with room to wander — local sky, nearest stars, and galaxy pages.
Clickable cross-section of Earth’s air — layers, heights, and environmental stakes.
Light pollution literacy — skyglow, glare, trespass; wildlife and circadian notes; DarkSky fixes; Bay Area angle. Not medical advice.
Interactive lesson — grade/tonnage toy, lithium path picker (brine / hard-rock / clay), processing stages, geography literacy, env/social notes. Cross-links Rushes.
News
One deskSitemap for the news desks — science headlines first, more to come.
BBC Science, NASA, Phys.org, and ScienceDaily — public RSS in the browser.