My silly little side quests
Building my own projects is where I fell in love with programming and design. These are the small ones, kept here because they were fun to make.
Minigames
06More coming soon.
001 Play
Type a Book
Pick a book off the shelf and type it on an old typewriter
002 Play
Steamed Up
A mirror after a hot shower. Breathe on it, then wipe it with your finger
003 Play
Plant World
A Mario-style Game Boy game on a little SP. Play your own games on it too
004 Play
Aquarium
Draw a fish, name it and drop it in. It swims with everyone else's
005 Coming soon
Dinosaur Game
A dinosaur runs, and you jump it over the cacti
006 Coming soon
Snow Tycoon
A tycoon game for the desktop
Tools
05007 GitHub
Claude Pets
A desktop pet that shows what Claude Code is doing
008 Download, 2.2 MB
AutoClicker
A macOS auto-clicker Apple wouldn’t approve
009 GitHub
Timelapse Timestamps
Puts the real clock time on timelapse videos
010 Private
DJ Pipeline
Cleans up, tags and loads new tracks into Serato
011 Private
Home Automations
A local hub for the smart devices in my house
Apps
07012 App Store
Canasta Score Tracker
Canasta scoring for the whole table
013 App Store
Spades Score Tracker
Spades bids and scores for the whole table
014 Case study
Hearts Score Tracker
Hearts scoring for the whole table
015 Demo
Desk Yoga
Short yoga sessions you can do at your desk
016 In progress
Farkle Score Tracker
Scores for Farkle, the push-your-luck dice game
017 In progress
Watchlisted
Track the movies people tell you to watch
018 In progress
Darts Score Tracker
Scores for 501 and friends
Web apps
09019 Live
Group Sing Along
Lyrics everyone in the room sees in real time
020 Live
Git Racer
Race your friends on GitHub contributions
021 Live
ASCII Cam
Your webcam, rendered in ASCII
022 Live
MTV Simulator
A big 90s TV that only gets music channels
023 Live
Field Notes
What job posts ask you to prove, in your field’s own words
024 Live
Savory Memories
A photo of an old recipe card in, a clean recipe page out
025 Live
Tea Cupboard
An inventory for my tea collection
027 In progress
Crossposter
Post a video once, publish it to TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Bluesky
Claude Code skills
04Free on GitHub.
028 GitHub
App Store Screenshots
Makes on-brand App Store screenshots for an app
029 GitHub
App Store Preflight
Checks an iOS app for what Apple rejects before you submit it
030 GitHub
App Store Connect Setup
Fills in App Store Connect from the app’s own repo
031 GitHub
Build in Public
Turns git commits into build-in-public posts
