Salina Mendoza

A free, no-signup browser studio for muralists, and the first of many artist tools on artistlocker.com. Draw your wall in real feet, cut it into paintable regions, and size lettering with painted measurements down to the ¼ inch. On site, photograph the wall, pin four corners, and the design locks onto the bricks — warped grid, trace view, and cell-by-cell zoom for transfer day. Built for my own practice and pressure-tested on a live commission days after shipping.

The wall-transfer alignment is a closed-form homography I wrote in-house after the popular npm library silently failed under ESM bundling. The grid is pre-warped in code and drawn as flat 2D SVG to sidestep a Chrome GPU bug that drops thin strokes inside perspective transforms. Zero backend: projects autosave to your device as vectors, and "send to phone" compresses the whole project into a QR-encoded URL — wall photos never leave the device.

Listing physical inventory is slow: photograph the piece from every angle, write a description, generate platform-specific copy, set a price, push it live. SuiteInventory collapses that into one mobile flow you can run from a storage unit. Photos, price, and notes in; Claude-generated listing copy and a Shopify draft product out. Curated pieces land on a public, Linktree-style sale page at suiteinventory.com/<seller>/<slug>.

Shopify owns checkout and the storefront. SuiteInventory owns the on-ramp — the painful capture-to-listing step. Everything runs as a single SvelteKit app on Cloudflare Workers, with D1 for data, R2 for images, and a raw-fetch Anthropic integration for copy generation. No separate API service, no SDKs to drift against the platform.

Built for events under 100 people, cannabis events, underground arts, community gatherings, anyone mainstream platforms redline. Full event creation, public registration, QR check-in, organizer profiles, and offline sync for venues with bad connectivity.

The offline-first check-in was the hard part: IndexedDB plus a lean service worker so the whole thing keeps working when the WiFi dies. Rebuilt from Lovable onto SvelteKit + Cloudflare Workers to own the infrastructure, performance, and credibility end to end.

Competitive research across 24+ platforms in three market tiers found the same gap: no affordable platform combined interactive seat selection, a custom venue map builder, and access management. Enterprise platforms had all three but were out of reach on cost and complexity. Budget platforms had QR ticketing but stopped there. SuiteMaps is the map editor layer — operators define their venue once, that structure drives seat selection, access control, and inventory downstream.

Schema-first: Venue → Configuration → Section → Row → Seat. Configurations are self-contained so layout variants never produce cascading bugs. SVG parsing, auto-naming, ADA seat detection — all client-side, zero external APIs.

AI tools produce beautiful static PDFs. Editing them means regenerating everything. SuitePresent solves this: import a slide, lift elements off the static background, move and edit them as floating layers. OCR via Tesseract.js means you grab and edit actual text — not just place boxes on top.

Deliberately minimal: a single HTML file, React via ESM CDN, no build step, no bundler, deployed straight to Cloudflare Pages from GitHub. The whole editor runs in the browser.

Arts events, community gatherings, independent venues — the things that don't make it onto the featured page because they don't have the ad budget.

Started as a personal question: why do I love certain parts of a song and not others? BrainGroov maps what's happening in your brain in real time while you listen. Share any browser tab playing audio — YouTube, Spotify, anything — and spectral features extracted via Meyda every ~500ms drive activations across 13 brain regions: nucleus accumbens, VTA, amygdala, hippocampus, and more. Every mapping has a peer-reviewed citation.

The visualization is a hand-drawn SVG brain. Regions pulse proportional to activation. Post-session, Claude generates a time-synced narrative of what your brain was doing moment to moment.

This one didn't start with a product idea. It started with 10+ years working inside every layer of the arts ecosystem, leading art committees, local government arts programming, anti-graffiti initiatives, mural restorations, running an art directory, curating as a gallery partner, and producing city-wide art walks. I've studied how arts organizations operate from the institutional level down to the most local. What's missing is a plan, the technology to execute it, and partners to fund it without ongoing government dependency.

Artist Safespaces is the nonprofit vehicle, running an annual festival in partnership with IKEA. Behind it is a multi-tenant booking and event-operations platform I designed and built: artist roster, partner CRM, open-call applications, clickwrap contracts with counter-offer negotiation, and partner event hubs. It's live in beta across two client instances, and we've used it to run two events with our IKEA partner and hire 10 artists in its first month, dogfooded on our own events, white-label ready for cities to run their own arts programming.

Visitors sign their name at a kiosk and receive a thermal-printed Hollerith punch card receipt. Over two months, a weighted erasure algorithm systematically alters, redacts, and removes their names from the official record — mirroring what happened to Indigenous peoples in colonial census systems. Erasure escalates from 20% in week one to 80% by close. Name alterations replicate documented colonial practices: anglicization, shortening to initials, surname removal, full replacement with European names.

Three integrated systems: a SvelteKit + Cloudflare Workers web app with a D1 database; a Node.js polling service on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W driving a 58mm thermal printer via ESC/POS commands; and originally a custom Python/C driver rendering live visitor data to a vintage IBM monochrome monitor via MDA video memory. The CRT broke the week of the event, so I pivoted to a web display engineered to mirror the green monochrome look and feel — scanlines, phosphor glow, the whole MDA aesthetic — running on a standard monitor so the installation opened on time. The dual-table architecture — immutable truth_record alongside an official_record subject to erasure — is the conceptual core. The gap between them is the point.

On opening day a corrupted SD card took down the Raspberry Pi. Reflashed the OS, reconfigured the printer service, had it operational before visitors arrived. No data lost. All production changes and database operations were performed live with active visitors in the gallery.