About Maddox Labs

This site is the home for everything I build on my own time: small web tools, browser games, services for website owners, and experimental software.

How it started

I started making computer games at 13. A few of those early Windows games are still on the downloads page, and my old browser game site, Rootbeer Games, is still online too. Since then I have worked professionally as a developer, mostly in C#, TypeScript, and SQL. The earliest posts on the blog date to 2012 and cover that work: unit testing, WPF, and team practices.

What I build now

• Focused web tools. Single-purpose sites that do one job well, like converting HEIC, AVIF, and WEBP images, CSV and JSON, or counting and comparing text. In 2024 I also bought four existing tool sites and have been improving them.
• Services for site owners. Site by Email builds and maintains small business websites, updated by email. Is Site Down? checks outages from several regions.
• Games. Since 2026 many of my games are built with Stasis Lang, a language I am developing for deterministic games. They range from tiny games that fit in a few kilobytes to Gambit Guard, a chess-based maze-defense game.
• Code. Data Access Generation, a patent-pending code generator, is in use in production.

The projects page lists everything, grouped by category.

How this site is funded

Some pages show Google AdSense ads, and a few links are affiliate links. The home page and the toddler games never show ads. The privacy policy explains what that means for cookies and data.

Get in touch

Email me at ben@maddoxlabs.com about anything here, including contract development work. You can also find me on GitHub, LinkedIn, and X. The contact page has the details.