Software Development Side Projects
30 total projects.
Applications
Demarkable - DMARC and SMTP-TLS Viewer for MacOS ⇗
- Drop in a DMARC or SMTP TLS report and get a clear, human-readable breakdown of what passed, what failed, and why. Read more →
EngMan - Coaching Card Decks for Engineering Managers ⇗
- EngMan is an iOS app for engineering leaders who want rapid access to coaching prompts, frameworks, and conversation starters. Dip into focused topics whenever you need a nudge ahead of a 1:1 or a tricky stakeholder chat. Read more →
Hiyd - Jekyll Companion app for iOS ⇗
- Hiyd is a lightweight companion for those running a Jekyll-powered sites, similar markdown-led static-site generation, or document stores from your phone. Capture ideas, draft posts, and export clean front-matter without opening a laptop. Read more →
Mltply - Chat-like Kid's Maths App ⇗
- Mltply uses a friendly chat-style interface to make maths practice less intimidating. Short prompts keep the pace up, and repetition cements knowledge while keeping things playful. Read more →
Nuchronic - Energy & Symptom Tracker ⇗
- Nuchronic helps people with ME/CFS, long COVID and other chronic illnesses track their energy and symptoms in seconds, keep a crash plan and health records together, and take a clear PDF record to appointments. Read more →
ShortKeys - Multi-line Text Replacement Snippets App for iOS ⇗
- ShortKeys is a productivity app for people who live in text. Build multi-line snippets, drop them behind memorable keyboard shortkeys, and fly through forms, support replies, or daily journaling. Read more →
Tomoz - Plan for Tomorrow, Today ⇗
- Tomoz makes it easy to plan for tomorrow today. Pick and choose calendars, add in reminders, and get a clear unified view of tomorrow. Read more →
Plugins
Hiyd - Chrome Extension for Linked/Quote Capture ⇗
- A simple Chromium browser plugin to capture linked quotes from websites into a markdown file for your jekyll blog. Read more →
RedemptionX - Reddit Deletion Tool ⇗
- A simple Chromium browser plugin to irreversibly delete all your reddit posts and comments. No undo. Read more →
YSA2 - Homebridge Plugin for managing Yale Sync Alarms ⇗
- A Homebridge Yale Sync Alarm plugin to manage and automate the state of your home alarm with Apple HomeKit. Read more →
Scripts
Convert Google Takeout YouTube CSV to OPML - Python Script ⇗
- A Python script to convert Google Takeout YouTube CSV files to OPML format. Useful for importing YouTube subscriptions into RSS readers. Read more →
Delete GitHub Issues - Python Script ⇗
- A Python script to delete GitHub issues in bulk. Useful for cleaning up old or irrelevant issues from a repository. Read more →
Drafts Actions List ⇗
- Drafts is a Mac and iOS app made by Agile Tortoise. The app supports custom actions and scripts written in JavaScript, here is a list of actions I have created. Read more →
rss.chat reply manager for Jekyll - Python Script ⇗
- A Python script to manage rss.chat replies for Jekyll sites. Read more →
Templates
Create mta-sts.txt and subdomain on GitHub Pages - Template Repo ⇗
- A Repo template for creating an mta-sts.txt record and subdomain hosted on GitHub Pages using their branch deployment. Read more →
Track a RSS/Atom feed on GitHub - Template Repo ⇗
- A Repo template for monitoring and archiving a feed. Read more →
Themes
NetNewswire Theme Bundle ⇗
- Theme bundle for the NetNewsWire RSS reader app that contains a number of light, dark, and adjustable themes. Read more →
Websites
Boinc @ thechels ⇗
- Micro site to advertise BOINC, a platform that allows computers all round the world to contribute their spare computing capacity to run distributed applications Read more →
Cheltenham Open Data ⇗
- A website and GitHub project to collect and disseminate public open data from a variety of sources for local community. Read more →
Embed @ thechels ⇗
- This is a simple static page for embedding YouTube videos from youtube-nocookle.com so that my NetNewsWire themes render inline YouTube videos correctly. Previously the lack of a referrer meant a 153 error. Read more →
Feeds ⇗
- An RSS feed aggregator that combines a bunch of RSS feeds into discrete pages per topic and all into one place and one simple view aimed at the discerning insurance technology professional. Read more →
Links ⇗
- A simple one page Jekyll site with a link tree or link-in-bio style links as a microsite using Font Awesome icon pack. Read more →
Nuchronic.uk ⇗
- The webring for the chronically ill on the indie web. A dark-mode hacker news style site that aggregates content from a variety of sources, including blogs, podcasts, and YouTube channels, all focused on the blogs and lives of people with chronic illness. Read more →
Search Router ⇗
- A default search routing homepage that uses bangs and shortcodes to route a query through sites and search engines. Read more →
SecOpsNews ⇗
- Collated RSS items as GitHub Issues for the discerning engineering leader or security professional. Read more →
Tools ⇗
- A digital playground or smorgasbord of ad-hoc and occasional tooling, including converting file types, charting, and string manipulations such as Monte Carlo simulations, local weather report, url slug generation and rolling average calculator. Read more →
Workers
CF Worker Emailer ⇗
- A Cloudflare worker to handle form submissions and send emails using resend.com's API. Read more →
CF Worker X Redirect ⇗
- A Cloudflare worker to solve a niche problem of redirecting urls to an `x-callback-url` on iOS when an app doesn't support them natively. Read more →
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