My name is Vlad. I'm a Romanian teenager with a lot of interests: sociology, economics, politics, urbanism, architecture, psychology, and whatever else you find across this site. I used to be interested in programming but moved away. Most of these projects and apps are simple, the work of someone who is not a professional coder. Sometimes, I ponder whether all the work done here matters more than I do. Sometimes I wonder if I'm too smart, or developed too much compared to other teens, or why I don't have friends yet, but comparison is useless. At 15, I had no real friend, I found one, lost again at 16, and I'm lonely again. The new homepage reflects this reality, moving away from the "default.css" styles. The older styles are kept as I won't bother changing entire class systems.
Writing & Creative Media
Text Files
A collection of unfinished stories, microfiction, drawings, fragments, and even some music. Not everything is meant to make sense, contain polished ideas, or be consistent.
Posts
Essays and blog-style posts, usually with a social or political theme. Some are rants, some are satires, some are formal attempts at analysis, some are experimental manifestos. Less creative spectacle, more overt social commentary.
School Textbooks
Educație Politică - Sistem Curent și Teorie Critică
Unapproved and experimental Romanian school textbook for grades 9, 10, 11 or 12 about political education. Note that it is impossible to avoid political statements in this book, precisely because political education is not neutral, but political in nature. This project was designed for progressive and left-wing teenagers, that is, for a small minority. Also, this is a satire on old textbooks, written in 2004, and the disconnection from reality of the current curriculum, among other aspects. The work is licensed under "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International", that means, you can use the work for any purpose as long as you attribute to the author (miculpionier) and redistribute it under the same license.
Nutriție
Unapproved and experimental Romanian school textbook for grade 9 about nutrition. The work is licensed under "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International", that means, you can use the work for any purpose as long as you attribute to the author (miculpionier) and redistribute it under the same license.
Programs & Web Utilities
Apps & Play
Whiteboard OS
A browser-based imitation of a whiteboard operating system meant for teachers. It's not really advanced, it just lets you draw, bring up a website, look at the world map, build a temporary isometric city and play ambient water sounds.
Todo
Simple list-style todo program where you can add tasks, mark as finished and delete. Saves to local storage.
English Dictionary
Search utility for English words where you enter a word and get phonetics, meanings, exaples, synonyms and antonyms back.
W7 Calculator
Simple calculator styled like Windows 7. Meant for daily adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. Meant to imitate a desktop program.
SVG Text Generator
Enter text and get an SVG image with that text inside a rectangle. Originally, I made this to mimic the color style of the USR political party logo in Romania, using their blue background and red dot. It was just for fun, no political intention. You can change the color scheme to anything you like.
Ultra-Processed Food Generator
Generates long ultra-processed food labels, inspired by how supermarkets are full of these products. Built for humor and pattern recognition. Trying to construct those products in real life will at best result in a gel-like substance.
Microcontroller Interpreter
Basic interpreter that simulates a simple microcontroller by converting some commands into javascript.
NLConsole
A simulated world management operating system setup. Just click through buttons and let the system install onto the Automatic World Management Module.
Phone Labeling Game
Small game for labeling random phone data that appears on screen, like "Actual Lasting", "Desirable for", "Repairable (Yes, No, Partially)". Built to make fun of planned and perceived obsolescence.
Cocoa Powder Box Simulator
This program is designed demonstrates the composition of a typical industrial cocoa powder box, which often contains an excessive amount of sugar. Adjust the total grams of powder and the sugar ratio to see the corresponding amounts of sugar and cocoa in the box.
Simulations & Social Experiments
Critical Psychology Worksheet
Worksheet to help think critically about mental health causes, with attention to social and economic factors like inequality and systemic oppression.
Corruption and Climate Shaping the Future
Pick a path for a fictional governments with varying climate and corruption responses, see how the past, present and future diverges. Completely speculative, no guarantee of realism.
War on Terror Simulator
This is a program about how the government's response to terrorism can determine how intact civil liberties will be. Modeled after U.S. anti-terror policies.
Ideology Creator
A program where you create an ideology with a description based on a selected Government Type, Economic System, Social Structure, Cultural Approach and Environmental Policy.
Classical Liberalism Simulator
See how a society changes under "pure" free market rules. This is a determinist simulation that visualizes GDP, poverty rates, quality of life, inequality, and economic mobility. It functions according to the three phases of growth, success, and decline.
Walkability Simulation
Tick a few boxes representing various urbanist solutions for improving walkability, reducing car flow, increasing livability and decreasing the distance to amenities and see how the graph changes. While in real life the variables are interconnected, for the purposes of this simulation, they are mutually exclusive, which does not make it realistic.
How old is infinite growth capitalism?
This program calculates the age of infinite growth economics from the First Industrial Revolution and some other stats on today's world system, like the number of crashes and sudden reboots, the number of Earths that we currently use and the societal collapse counter. This program is old and no longer fitting of the standards that other programs follow.
The Island Experiment
Simulates an economy where there's more debt than money, something that could happen in the real world when establishing an economy with a private central bank.
Cât s-a furat din pădurile României?
Supposedly live estimation for how much wood is stolen from Romanian forests, projected as a running total. Written to raise awareness, not to provide perfect or even accurate tracking.
AI Tools
Fill Mask
Enter a sentence with a missing word ("mask"), get likely fill-ins generated by a simple AI. The space no longer works.
Visual Question Answering
Upload an image, ask a question, get an answer from a simple AI model. The space no longer works.
Quizzes & Tests
Earthist vs Spacist Quiz
Are you more likely to focus on protecting the Earth or supporting humanity expanding into space?
Conservationist vs Expensionist Quiz
A quiz meant to reflect the tension between preserving what we have, and pushing to use even more resources.
Hegemonic vs Universal Quiz
Do you side more with universal laws and ideals, or practical self-interest in international law?
SCP-2316 Cognitive Resistance Assessment
Fictional "test" for lore-followers, based on the SCP Foundation. It is meant to test cognitive resistance to SCP-2316, which cannot be described here on the homepage.
Neo-Colony Quiz
Instrument for determining whether a country is being neocolonized or not. It is inaccurate, especially if you don't know exactly about the country you are testing.
SPECIA Quiz
Self-administered quiz to test Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence and Agility (SPECIA), 6 important abilities necessary to survive in a harsh world similar to that in Fallout. Not an effective replacement for the Generalized Occupational Aptitude Test in Fallout or any other potentially better aptitute tests.
STEM Technocracy vs Critical Test
Are your answers leaning more towards supporting STEM Technocracy or opposing it? Also features togglable headers and paragraphs to see the other perspective in a satirical way, since no writing is unbiased.
Internationalized Reading Test
Fictional written internationalized reading test, inspired by SAT and LSAT reading models. Both styles feature the same content, but you can choose between them.