Projects
Everything I have built and still run, grouped by what it is for. Cards marked ↗ open the project's own site.
Games
Category page →Browser games, from few-kilobyte tiny games to larger games built with Stasis Lang, plus the older downloadable games that started it all.
Tiny Games
Pocket Farm, Crate Shift, Solitaire, and Shardbound: small browser games that each fit in a few kilobytes and play with mouse, touch, or keys.
Gambit Guard
A chess-based maze-defense game. Every legal move is both a weapon and a new path for the enemy. Plays in the browser, on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android.
Toddler Mini Games
Touch-friendly free play for little kids: Super School Bus and Toddler Match. No accounts, timers, or ads.
Monster Hollow
Gather food, wood and stone, hatch new monsters, build slides and seesaws, and throw kite days, pumpkin patches and balloon festivals as the seasons turn.
Sheep Herder
Guide a border collie around the flock and use pressure to move sheep into their pens. 30 levels of increasing difficulty.
Gerbil Tower
Collect hearts, grow a cosy tower up to eight floors, and make room for a lively family of gerbils.
Afterlight
An atmospheric adventure through a shifting canal city, where reflections, motion, and light reveal the route ahead.
Maddox & Friends
A same-room collection of ten compact games for playing together on one screen.
Rootbeer Maze 3
Guide a mouse to the cheese through fresh, increasingly challenging mazes. A browser-first remake of a classic Rootbeer Games maze.
Mini Games for posts
46 tiny games built to play right inside a social media post. Each has a challenge, a replay, or a pass-it-on link to share with friends.
Toddler Match
A matching game for young children with a voiced tutorial. Match by color, shape, or number.
Rootbeer Games
The original Rootbeer Games site: free browser mazes and games, mostly built on Microsoft Silverlight. Preserved for its history.
Older downloadable games
Windows games I made starting at age 13, like Button Bash and Button Blip. Some need software that is no longer supported.
Tools for site owners
Category page →Services and tools for people who run websites: getting a site built and maintained, earning from it, announcing it, and checking it is up.
Site by Email
Done-for-you small business websites with hosting included. When something needs to change, the owner sends an email and it gets handled.
Is Site Down?
Check whether a website is down for everyone or just you, with probes from multiple regions, response times, and the HTTP status. No account, no logging.
Ad or Subscribe
Let visitors choose: see ads, or pay a subscription to remove them. A service for earning from either.
Global Sites AI
Boilerplate for building static websites in many languages, with AI-assisted translation. Several of the tools here were built with it.
Announce Project
A news feed of new websites. Create, manage, and share announcements for the things you launch.
SEO Page Audit
Find technical SEO issues on a page, with no subscription required.
Writing & text tools
Category page →Small, fast tools for writing, counting, comparing, and reshaping text in the browser.
Markdown Toolbox
A suite of Markdown tools for editing and converting files, plus a blog of Markdown guides. For writers, developers, and content creators.
Notepad Love
A fast online notepad with multiple tabs that auto-saves to your device. Optional premium sync across devices.
Text Difference
Compare two blocks of text and see exactly what changed. No ads, just a donate button.
Root Beer Text
Quick tools for formatting, cleaning up, and organizing text. The first one merges rows of CSV data into a text template.
Count Your Words
Count characters, words, sentences, and paragraphs in any text.
Developer & data tools
Category page →Single-purpose utilities for everyday programming chores: converting data, generating IDs and passwords, and making QR codes.
CSV to JSON
Convert CSV files to JSON in the browser. Free, with nothing to install.
JSON to CSV
Turn JSON data into a CSV you can open as a spreadsheet. Free, with nothing to install.
GUID Builder
Generate one or many GUIDs/UUIDs, formatted with or without hyphens, quotes, commas, or braces, and copied to your clipboard.
Password Generator
Make secure passwords from random words, letters, numbers, and symbols. Nothing is saved.
QR Code Generators
Create QR codes for links, text, and other common uses.
Image converters
Category page →Convert modern image formats like HEIC, AVIF, and WEBP into formats that open everywhere.
Everyday utilities
Category page →Clocks, dice, calculators, converters, and formulas for quick everyday answers.
Clock Display
A simple full-screen clock showing the date and time.
Roll Dice
A customizable online dice roller. Set up the dice you need and share the setup with others.
Formulas Today
A large collection of easy-to-use formulas, with articles explaining how they work.
Months To
Convert months to years, weeks, days, hours, and smaller units.
Your Converter World
A large collection of free online unit converters.
Your Calculator World
Thousands of free online calculators for everyday and specialist math.
For teachers & kids
Category page →Free classroom tools, coloring pages, and math practice.
Programming languages & code
Category page →Open source and experimental work on languages, compilers, and code generation.
