Experiments
Things I make in my own time, mostly with code and mostly in an evening or a weekend. Some are useful, some are jokes.
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Qibla Line
Finds the Qibla without trusting your phone's compass: line the map up with a wall of your room, then turn until it says you're facing Mecca.
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Glyphtone
Rebuilds any picture out of thousands of tiny icons and exports it as vector for large-format print. Runs in the browser.
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Tiny Typer
A typing toy for toddlers: every key drops a big, bouncy letter in bright colours.
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Tiny Fingers
My 3D reimagining of tinyfingers.net, the original typing toy, made for my son: every key sends a character tumbling across the screen.
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Karak Calculator
Converts any price in dirhams into cups of karak chai.
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Ad Agency Jargon Translate
Google Translate for ad agencies: type something plain and get it back as agency, boardroom or LinkedIn jargon.
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Will My Toddler Eat This?
A very scientific food predictor.
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cxusage
A terminal app for exploring your own Codex usage, for teams without the cloud dashboard.
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Sigiriya: The Lion Rock
A four-minute animated film about King Kashyapa I, drawn and animated entirely in code. No images, no video files.