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Was a small marketplace of minimalist Astro themes for portfolios, blogs, and small brands. Restrained typography, accessible by default. Retired in 2026.
I build minimal tools and run small experiments.
Was a small marketplace of minimalist Astro themes for portfolios, blogs, and small brands. Restrained typography, accessible by default. Retired in 2026.
An archive of the fanzine for FC St. Pauli, focused on club history, Kiez culture, and the people who kept the base together.
A plain-language digital security guide for parents and grandparents. Five essential habits, explained clearly, in six languages.
Grid calculator for designers. Set width, columns, gutter, and margin, then get the column width and a live preview you can copy into Figma.
Bouncing DVD logo screensaver for macOS with nostalgic corner-hit satisfaction. Free download, runs on Apple silicon and Intel.
Beşiktaş news from Turkish and international sources in one quiet list, refreshed every 15 minutes. A feed reader in the spirit of Google Reader, in Turkish and English.

A Mac menu-bar app that draws guides and layout grids over your whole screen, for checking alignment in any app. Free, macOS 14+.

Rotate, pan and zoom a cube, a sphere or a figure like in a 3D app. When you let go, it says what you did, as in Rotate -125° X-Axis.

Marie asks, you pick. Two elements, one question. Which is heavier, denser or hotter to melt? A Commodore 64 style chemistry game.

Pick two soccer formations. See where each one is strong, where it leaks, and how they meet.

A Mac app for building colour palettes. Scales, harmonies, a mixing board, twelve-step themes and contrast checks in WCAG 2 and APCA. Free, macOS 15.5+.

A MIDI and SID visualizer studio. Tracks play through a stack of GPU shader effects you can reorder, tune and drive with bass, kicks and snares.

A Firefox extension that lays out the page you are on as a brand kit, with its logo, colours, typefaces and type hierarchy, ready to save as HTML or PNG.

macOS 26 System Settings with a column of live widgets beside every pane. A clickable concept with named, colour-coded groups and dashboards for the whole Mac.

A human-reviewed directory of portfolio sites by digital designers in Canada. Browse UX, UI and product designers by province, each on their own domain.

A Firefox extension that finds the web fonts a page uses and downloads them, one file at a time or all together as a zip.

Learn Git in a terminal, on a designer’s project folder instead of code. Sixteen short levels that show Git’s three places first, then snapshots, branches, merges, conflicts and the team’s copy.

A designer's portfolio as a walkable pixel town. Eight locked case study doors, a poutine truck, a döner cart, a street cat from İstanbul and a telegraph for saying hi.

Turn a laptop or phone into a radio time station. Hold a radio-controlled watch to the speaker and it sets itself from WWVB, DCF77, MSF, JJY or BPC.

An immortal browser for the afterlife of office work. Search on DuckDuckGone, then open LinkedInferno, Glassdoom, Slackrifice and Jirabyss, all set in the same hell.

Answer three questions and get the cheapest Greater Montreal transit fare for how you ride, with the math. Zones A to D, reduced fares and the 747 airport bus, in French and English.

Start the stopwatch, then stop it on exactly 00 hundredths. The digital watch game we played in high school, on a working F-91W lookalike.

A neutral, bilingual guide to Quebec's 1980 and 1995 referendums. The questions asked, the official results and what could follow, every fact with its source.

Find the words hiding in a phone number, or the number behind a word. A retro intercom for vanity numbers, with every US and Canadian area code.

A macOS menu-bar app that reads hex, RGB and HSL colour codes from any text on your screen. Free, macOS 14+.

Preview a LUT or Lightroom preset on an image in the browser. Tweak light, colour and effects, compare before and after, pull the colour scheme, export PNG or .cube. Nothing is uploaded.

A lightweight macOS menu-bar app that shows the track playing in TIDAL. Free, macOS 13+.

Turn flight details into a timezone-safe calendar event. Enter airport codes and times, download an .ics anchored to the departure zone.

Indie publishing collective from Canada. Short books across tech, art, design, work, culture, and whatever else holds the attention.

Illustrated apparel for collectors of the strange. Parody, tribute, and commentary printed on heavyweight cotton.

Was a small marketplace of minimalist Astro themes for portfolios, blogs, and small brands. Restrained typography, accessible by default. Retired in 2026.

An archive of the fanzine for FC St. Pauli, focused on club history, Kiez culture, and the people who kept the base together.

A plain-language digital security guide for parents and grandparents. Five essential habits, explained clearly, in six languages.

Grid calculator for designers. Set width, columns, gutter, and margin, then get the column width and a live preview you can copy into Figma.

Bouncing DVD logo screensaver for macOS with nostalgic corner-hit satisfaction. Free download, runs on Apple silicon and Intel.

An archive of essays against AI capitalism. Short pieces on extraction, enshittification, and what's lost when software eats everything.

Drop in an SVG and walk away with every favicon size, format, and manifest file a modern website needs. Free, fast, no upload.
An archive of a daily AI news aggregator that scored every story 1 to 10 on a doom scale, ranked by severity, published as a single-page digest.

Curated directory of independent personal blogs from around the world.

An archive of a personally curated Montreal city guide. Five handpicked places per category, from coffee to cocktails, chosen over a decade of living here.

Swipe through two thousand curated colour palettes. Rate them, copy the ones you love, and build a private library of favourites.

Browse emoji arranged by visual similarity instead of category. Click any tile to recentre the grid and see what its neighbours look like.

Match Internet slang and Gen Z terms to their definitions. Quick rounds, scoring, and a leaderboard for the terminally online.

Cultcore startup buzzword generator. Disrupt the disruption with meaningless jargon that sounds profound, rendered in Pantone 448 C.

A playful home for colour. It began as an adoption service for named shades and grew a colour personality test alongside it. Now a static archive.

Interactive 3D globe plotting every /now page listed on nownownow.com. Spin to see who's building what, where, right now.

Upload any image to instantly map its dominant colours and hue distribution. Pixel-level density breakdowns, exportable palette output.

Colour palette studio with harmony analysis, smart suggestions, accessibility checks, and clean export to CSS, SCSS, or design tokens.

A chat with an incredibly cooperative AI. Heuristic Autonomous Intelligence Layer pitched as the exact opposite of its famous namesake.

Imperial and Metric unit converter built for people who move between continents. Length, weight, volume, and temperature in one place.

A conversational guide that picks the right chart type for your data and the point you want to make. Answer a few questions, get a recommendation.

Official colours and symbolism from all 13 Canadian provincial and territorial flags. Hex codes, history, and the meaning behind each stripe.

Canadian sales tax and subtotal calculator for every province and territory. GST, PST, HST, QST — figure out what you actually owe, fast.
