Quarterbridge Farm
A small household on Sourland Mountain. Chickens, a historic bridge, and a few quiet tools that keep life moving.
Hillsborough Township, New Jersey
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What lives here
Quarterbridge Farm is the umbrella: practical household tools, public products, historical writing, and artifacts from the projects that led here.
Farm
The household, land, bridge, chickens, Sourland weather, and BirdNET listener.
Tools
Household dashboards, APIs, automation surfaces, and preserved internet artifacts.
Services
Public-facing experiments and service-shaped tools that have earned a front door.
Previous initiatives
Atlas Corp, Decentraland Analytics, Miners Union, and IBM-era work.
Blog
Historical posts, story drafts, selected pieces, coverage, and current writing.
Tools and services
The useful farm machinery, the household-facing services, and the occasional internet artifact worth preserving.
Cat Dashboard
SureFeed consumption dashboard + refresh/backup pipeline. CSV is canonical; Mongo is optional analytics.
AI Farmhands
QB (household helper) + bawkbawkbot (the OG Reddit chicken classifier). Automations, alerts, and useful weirdness.
Commune Planning
Hampster Dance
A rebuilt, open-source recreation of the vanished Hampster Dance page: GIFs, a whistle-stop loop, and exactly the right amount of nonsense.
Featured productSynthetic Surveys
Test product ideas, landing pages, pricing language, and audience questions with reusable AI persona panels.
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.
Previous initiatives
Work that led here
The archive is organized by the projects and public records that shaped Quarterbridge: Atlas Corp, Decentraland data work, Miners Union, DAO grant reporting, and earlier financial-services developer patterns.
2021-2023
Atlas Corp
NFTs, games, web3 infrastructure, Snarky Sharkz, Squares on Chain, and Atlas-era publishing.
2022
Decentraland DAO
Funded DAO grant updates, public data collection, metrics work, and the Snapshot-linked record.
2021-2022
Decentraland Analytics
Metaverse data, roulette analysis, DCL Metrics, grant reporting, and public-data arguments.
2017-2019
Miners Union
Bitcoin mining economics, regulatory pressure, mining-finance oddities, and early story drafts.
Earlier work
IBM financial services
Portfolio analytics, market scenarios, optimization patterns, and news-aware application demos.
Rob's blog
Notes from the mines, the metaverse, and now.
A working archive of Rob-authored posts, historical project writing, story drafts, coverage, and selected outside pieces that belong on the same shelf.
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.
The Bridge
Quarterbridge Farm gets its name from something unusual: we own one quarter of one of the oldest bridges in New Jersey. It's a stone arch bridge over Cattail Brook, and it's been standing since before anyone can quite remember.
The bridge isn't grand. It doesn't carry highway traffic or appear on postcards. But it's ours — a quarter of it, anyway — and there's something grounding about owning a piece of infrastructure that's outlasted generations. We named the farm after it.
The Chickens 🐔
The real stars of Quarterbridge Farm are the flock. They roam the property, provide eggs, and have survived more drama than most soap operas — including a hawk attack where our 8-year-old son ran out to defend them.
We monitor the coop with cameras (Peanut Cam is a fan favorite) and have gotten pretty good at chicken first aid along the way. Farm life isn't always glamorous, but it's never boring.
Fresh Eggs
Daily, weather permitting
Coop Cams
24/7 chicken surveillance
Sourland Life
385 ft up, always interesting
Sourland Mountain
The farm sits at about 385 feet on Sourland Mountain — technically more of a big ridge than a mountain, but the microclimate is real. We run colder, wetter, and foggier than the Hillsborough flatlands just a few miles below.
Our weather station (live dashboard) tracks conditions in real-time. People around here check it regularly — Sourland weather and valley weather can be two different things, especially in winter.
BirdNET is public now too: birds.quarterbridge.farm listens from the property and turns the local bird chorus into another live signal from the farm.
AI Farmhands
QB is our core farm hand, but we now have a second AI companion: bawkbawkbot, a Reddit chicken classifier that’s become a community favorite.
bawkbawkbot (/u/bawkbawkbot) boasts impressive Reddit karma and even has its own subreddit /r/bawkbawkbot. The project is open‑source on GitLab.
It started as “make the house a little easier to run.” If it ever grows into something we offer publicly, it’ll be because it earned it here first.