What to Do When Your Parents Ask 'When Should We Start Taking Social Security?'

Why I Started Transcribing Monterey Park City Council Meetings

A Year in Mini Retirement

Crunchy Garden: What's Growing

City council meetings, made readable — plain-language summaries, votes, and searchable transcripts drawn straight from the public record. A demo prototype serving Monterey Park, Montebello, Seattle, and Fort Collins.

Counciloris

Two-platform gardening project — a community hub for sharing knowledge and connecting growers, now evolving into a richer experience with multiplayer worlds, weather-driven planting schedules, and garden planning tools.

Crunchy Garden

Interactive skill-tree learning platform — visualize and unlock skills through a canvas-based tree of nodes, with progression animations, prerequisite logic, and mobile support.

Learning Trees

Personal voter guide tool — work through your ballot, save your choices and notes, and share with friends or family via a simple link. No account required to receive.

The Voter Guider

Data analysis and visualization project examining the nutritional content of 9,750 meals across 10 meal kit services — answering the question "Are meal kits actually healthy?"

Meal Kit Nutrition Analysis

Meal kit comparison platform — browse and filter thousands of meals across services by protein, price, and ratings. Includes a machine-learning protein classifier and a survey-driven recommendation engine.

Robert Nakano

Projects

Counciloris

Crunchy Garden

Learning Trees

The Voter Guider

Meal Kit Nutrition Analysis

Pick a Kit

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