Applied systems lab / Sourland Mountain
Quarterbridge Farm
A private research lab in the woods for AI agents, edge telemetry, livestock operations, public data systems, and applied software that survives contact with real-world constraints.
AI + Automation
Agents, dashboards, narrow classifiers
Edge + Field Data
Sensors, weather, coop telemetry
Applied R&D
Research products, APIs, public archive
Lab map
Research surfaces
Quarterbridge is a small applied lab: instrument the environment, build the operational software, publish useful artifacts, and keep enough of the archive public that collaborators can evaluate the work.
Field Lab
Sourland telemetry, edge devices, BirdNET, weather, bridge history, and livestock operations.
Systems
Dashboards, APIs, automations, data pipelines, and operational software built close to the problem.
Applied Work
Small, credible service surfaces for product research, planning, alerts, and AI-supported operations.
Domain Experience
EVM systems, smart-contract development, metaverse development and analytics, Atlas Analytics, Bitcoin mining infrastructure, and IBM 2016-2018 work.
Blog
Research notes, historical posts, technical writing, selected references, and public records.
Tools and services
The public front door for systems that started as internal infrastructure: dashboards, AI agents, research products, API surfaces, and service patterns available for selected outside work.
Cat Dashboard
A livestock-adjacent feeding telemetry system: SureFeed records, canonical CSV backups, optional analytics storage, and household operations reporting.
AI Operations
Agentic operations work: household automation, alerting, image classification, Reddit deployment experience, and small task surfaces built around real users.
Human Systems Planning
Web Preservation Artifact
A rebuilt, open-source reconstruction of a vanished early-web object: small-format media recovery, behavioral preservation, and durable static delivery.
Research productSynthetic Surveys
Test product ideas, landing pages, pricing language, and audience questions with reusable AI persona panels. Useful when human fieldwork is too slow for the first decision, but the answer still needs structured evidence.
Synthetic SurveysWhich landing page headline is clearer?
The first headline tells me who this is for and what decision it helps me make.
I like seeing the result split, but the individual reasoning is what I would forward.
The objection is clear: make the proof point less vague before real testing.
Research products
Productized lab surfaces
These are applied systems that can be evaluated as products: research panels, metaverse development and analytics, and managed agent infrastructure for people who need operating software without becoming infrastructure operators.
Live
Synthetic Surveys
AI persona panels for early product, positioning, pricing, and audience-research decisions before full fieldwork.
Atlas Corp / public data
Atlas Analytics
Decentraland analytics infrastructure: open-source code, DAO reporting, Worlds and SDK7 support, and community data access.
In the lab
Managed QB
A managed DigitalOcean box with a QB-style agent, Codex-capable workflows, GitLab deploys, domains, monitoring, and self-maintaining app surfaces.
Domain Experience
A History of Innovation
A compact record of applied systems work: EVM and smart-contract development, metaverse development and analytics, Atlas Analytics, Bitcoin mining infrastructure and data-center thinking, DAO reporting, and 2016-2018 IBM financial-services developer patterns.
2021-2023
EVM & Smart Contract Development
NFT systems, on-chain games, Chainlink integrations, verifiable randomness, and production web3 launches.
2022
Decentraland DAO
Funded DAO grant updates, public data collection, metrics work, and the Snapshot-linked record.
2021-2022
Metaverse Development & Analytics
Decentraland builds, venue activations, metrics, catalyst data, grant reporting, and public-data research.
2023-2024
Atlas Analytics
Open-source Decentraland analytics software, DAO reporting, Worlds and SDK7 support, and community data access.
2017-2019
Bitcoin Mining Infrastructure
Mining economics, hardware cycles, energy constraints, facility planning, and data-center operating models.
2016-2018
IBM Research Patterns
Financial-services software patterns for portfolio analytics, optimization, market scenarios, and AI workflows.
Research notes
Notes from infrastructure, public data, and software systems.
A working archive of technical writing, historical project records, public coverage, and selected references that explain how the lab thinks.
Flemington Veterinary Hospital
Flemington Veterinary Hospital serves Hunterdon County pets with decades of local care, and it is listed as an event sponsor for the 2026 Hunterdon County 4-H & Agricultural Fair.
Supporting the fair
The fair runs August 19-23, 2026 at the Hunterdon County Fairgrounds, carrying forward the local 4-H and agricultural tradition that grew out of the old Flemington Fair.
Infrastructure
Quarterbridge gets its name from a literal infrastructure asset: one quarter of one of New Jersey's oldest stone arch bridges over Cattail Brook.
The bridge is a useful organizing metaphor for the work here: durable systems, local constraints, maintenance discipline, and technology that has to hold up in production contexts.
Livestock Operations
The flock is the livestock system: animal husbandry, cameras, incident response, feed routines, and daily checks that turn a small coop into a monitored operational surface.
The operating surface is the interface between people, animals, sensors, weather, and decision loops. That is where small systems become a credible testbed.
Egg production
Daily, weather permitting
Coop cameras
Continuous visibility
Sourland conditions
385 ft up, variable weather
Environmental Telemetry
The lab sits at about 385 feet on Sourland Mountain. The microclimate is real: colder, wetter, and foggier than the Hillsborough flatlands a few miles below.
Our weather station (live dashboard) tracks conditions in real time. Local weather is not generic weather; it is an operating variable.
BirdNET is public now too: birds.quarterbridge.farm listens from the property and turns the local bird chorus into another ambient data stream.
AI and Edge Operations
QB is the core automation surface. bawkbawkbot is the public classifier: a narrow AI service with real users, deployment history, and a clear open-source trail.
bawkbawkbot (/u/bawkbawkbot) boasts impressive Reddit karma and even has its own subreddit /r/bawkbawkbot. The project is open‑source on GitLab.
The operating rule is simple: prove systems in the field, keep the repos legible, and only promote the components that earn a public role.