Hyper-focused tools and micro-projects on the indie web.
Just pushed a new puzzle game live: Chromatic Grid. It's a 5x5 board that acts like a flattened Rubik's Cube. Every move you make fixes one square but breaks the four touching it. Pure chaos management.
Built it in exactly 20 minutes using a single HTML file. No ads, no app store. If it breaks your brain, there's a secret mathematical algorithm to solve it—you just have to email me to get the cheat code PDF.
Launched hby (𓅃 — the hieroglyph for bird). It's not a bird ID app, and it's not a checklist app. It's a field notebook for people who actually keep field notebooks.
The workflow is simple: you're in a hedgerow at 5am, you have four seconds, so you scribble rough notes or hit the voice button. Later, at home with a cup of tea, you hit "Deepen." The AI reads your scribbles plus your metadata (habitat, weather, grid ref) and writes it up like a proper naturalist observation — complete with behavioral context and an eBird-ready record.
It's a single HTML file. Dark green UI to preserve night vision. Everything stays local on your machine. It doesn't guess what bird you saw—it just respects your field craft and writes it up like you had an hour at your desk instead of freezing fingers.
Setting up this digital garden. I got tired of social media algorithms hiding the things I make, so I'm bringing it back to the old web. This is my public dev log.
The plan: build tools that do exactly one thing perfectly, drop them on Neocities, and write a few sentences about the process here. No tracking, no logins. Just text and hyper-focused utilities.