Besides the technical marvel of the site you are currently viewing, I have built various stuff over the years. I'm currently heads-down on a SaaS startup, tentatively called VoiceGremlin. I've published several Android apps, but all but one have been de-published due to me not keeping up with the ever-changing requirements of the Google Play store. My only really viral app, Wall Mirror, is still up but badly in need of some minor updates. It's on the list! The rest of these are odd games and experiments.

VoiceGremlin

This is a startup I've been working on since August 2026. It's not quite ready to show off yet but I'm very excited about it! Wall Mirror in the Google Play Store

This is my first project to go viral - it was the top post on Reddit for an hour or so. It's an open source (code here) app designed to run on an Android tablet that's mounted behind a piece of one-way mirror glass, so that the text seems to float on the mirror.

It's a relatively easy project, both the code and the hardware, and I fully expected it to last a few months and then be annoying/broken/etc, but as it turns out I still really like it and use it ten years later. However, the code is out of date (the API it used for weather is no longer free, and the API it used for stock quotes has been shut down).

The good news is, I fixed my local version and it runs great! The bad news is, when I went to push the update to the Google Play store, they had changed the way packages are built and authenticated, I ran into mysterious undocumented errors, and I gave up. I hope to either get that fixed Real Soon Now(tm) or just publish it as a new app, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Visit the Very Official Website of Ineptech

You may enjoy the website I built for Ineptech, the "company" that "published" Word Nazi. I was inspired to make it when publishing my first Android app - there's a field for "Company" and I had nothing to put there, so I decided to make something up. It's a silly bit of nonsense that I build on the bus ride to and from my job, but I had a lot of fun with it. Play Word Nazi!

Word Nazi is my second published game. It is, or was, a party game for 4+ grown-ups, kind of like Taboo or Cards Against Humanity, except played on a tablet or phone, which is passed around among the players. It's no longer in the Play store and converting it to a webapp is on the list of things to do Real Soon Now(tm).

The rules are simple: one player tries to describe a word (e.g. "Chronic") to their teammates without using any of the relate forbidden words ("Acute", "Dr. Dre", etc). While they do this, a player from the opposing team (the eponymous Word Nazi) watches to make sure they don't cheat. And some of the words are rather racy, so hijinx ensue.

Word Nazi is built with Cordova, an open source library that compiles html/js in to mobile apps. This was my first time working with Cordova (or javascript for that matter) but it went pretty smoothly, it's a great way to dip your toe in to mobile if you normally do web dev. Play Pipster!

Pipster was my first published Android game! It's simple and it took me a long time, but I'm proud of it nonetheless. It's free (and ad-free).

The gameplay is similar to a card game called Set; if you're not familiar with it, run through the in-game tutorial, it's easy to learn. Unlike Set, Pipster uses pictures of my dog (Pip) and some of her friends instead of abstract shapes. Play Soldiers!

This is a simple proof of concept I did a while back to play with the idea of a chess-checkers amalgam. The legal moves are chess-like, but which moves are legal depends on the board position of the piece you're moving, rather than piece type.

Sadly, I never got around to an AI opponent. I think that might be fun to do someday, but right now I'm too keen on Android development to muck about with it. Like the stuff below it, it's written in Google Web Toolkit, a nifty set of libraries for compiling Java in to Javascript. Play Sudoku!

This is one of my first attempts at programming, a mostly-finished-but-not-quite implementation of Sudoku. Ignore the "Medium" and "Hard" options, I never got around to the part where I programmatically figure out how hard a puzzle is.

The math behind sudoku is a lot more interesting than I would've guessed before I delved in to it. It's much easier to just generate a random grid of numbers, remove some at random, and see if it's valid than it is to construct a sudoku grid that is provably solvable.

By the way, I know this doesn't work in IE. It did when I wrote it. C'est la vie. Screw around with Xword!

This is not really a game. I think I was trying to produce an applet to assist in the setting of crosswords. Basically, it's a blank crossword board to which you can add words, and when you try to add a cross to an existing word it will offer you a list of all words that fit the available blanks.

I never finished it, so it's probably not something you would want to use. I keep it around for those moments when I need to find a word to fit certain letters (e.g. A_A_L_ could be "arable" or "anally").