Posts Heat Protein Lab

Field notes from the build

Process posts written alongside the lab itself. Each is canonical on craigmerry.com and mirrored here so the live page can link back to the story of how it was built.

  1. Beat 1

    Wiring 17 scientific skills into a fresh Antigravity workspace

    This is the story I should have told at the Google I/O 2026 hackathon.

  2. Beat 2

    Meeting HSF1 in Antigravity 2.0 — the first chapter shipped

    Beat 1 reframed this project: the molecular-heat story is the one I should have told at the I/O hackathon and didn't, because shipping any claim about human biology under a hackathon deadline is asking for trouble. Two days later I started the repo properly. This post is...

  3. Beat 3

    Visualizing what heat does to a protein, without running molecular dynamics

    The hardest chapter in heat-protein-lab is Chapter 4. It is the chapter where a real human enzyme falls apart on the page as the reader scrolls. It is also the chapter most likely to mislead — the one most adjacent to the line where "educational visualization" becomes "fake sc...

  4. Beat 4

    Heat Protein Lab is live — what eight Antigravity sessions taught me about scientific UI

    Heat Protein Lab is now public. Eight chapters of scrollytelling about what heat does to human proteins, every chapter anchored on a real protein with a real structure file fetched from RCSB or AlphaFold, every citation back-linked to PubMed, every tissue claim sourced from th...

  5. Beat 5

    Three Google products, one project — what worked, what didn't, what I'd change

    Heat Protein Lab was, among other things, a deliberate composability test: build a citation-grounded scientific explainer using three new Google products in concert, by an indie developer working alone, in a small number of sessions. The three products were Antigravity 2.0 (th...