Turning Paperbacks Into Library Hardcovers: The Plan
I want to print and bind my own books as manga-sized hardcovers with the art printed right on the case, like an old library edition. Here's what that takes, before I've glued a single thing.
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Gridfinity Is Easy. Finding the Drawers Is the Hard Part
I've got the Gridfinity baseplates printed and the bins are easy. What I can't find is a drawer cabinet worth putting them in.
Vapor: Custom Steam Library Artwork Without the Tab Hoarding
Vapor is my open-source Python app that pulls grids, heroes, logos and icons from SteamGridDB and applies them to your Steam library, one game at a time or in bulk.
Games and gear · Note 10 ↗
CRT 90s TV: Channel Surfing Like It's 1996, on a Raspberry Pi
CRT 90s TV is my open-source Raspberry Pi project for turning an old tube TV into a nine-channel, remote-controlled '90s channel-surfing machine.
The retro workbench · Note 7 ↗
Browser Profile Icons: Telling Your Chrome, Edge and Firefox Profiles Apart at a Glance
A desktop app and a set of browser extensions I built for making custom profile icons and switching between browser profiles without squinting at identical avatars.
Desktop tinkering · Note 4 ↗
DataChart: A Dashboard Builder That Got Bigger Than a Dashboard Builder
DataChart is my open-source, multi-tenant dashboard builder, a FastAPI backend and React front end for dragging charts onto a page and wiring them to real data sources.
App experiments · Note 3 ↗
ICON: Swapping Desktop Shortcut Icons for SteamGridDB Art
ICON is my open-source Python tool that scans your desktop shortcuts, finds square artwork for them on SteamGridDB, and replaces the icons, with a backup you can restore from.
Games and gear · Note 9 ↗
Comic Cruncher: Shrinking a Digital Comic Library and Binding Issues Into Trades
A Python desktop app that converts PDF, CBR, CBZ and CB7 comics into smaller WebP-based CBZ files and can combine single issues into trade paperback volumes.
Archive conversion workshop · Note 5 ↗
Terminal News: Headlines, Votes and Weather in Your Terminal
Terminal News is my work-in-progress Go project for reading community-ranked news, local classifieds and NOAA weather in a text-only terminal app, for people who'd rather not open a browser to catch up.
App experiments · Note 2 ↗
Cassette Futurism New Tab Page: A Retro Browser Extension With a Starfield and Amber Clock
A cassette-futurism new tab page for Edge and Chrome, with link groups, live search, weather and a starfield, packaged as a Manifest V3 extension.
Desktop tinkering · Note 5 ↗
Genesis ROM Workshop: Pulling Palettes, Tiles and Text Out of Sega Genesis ROMs
Genesis ROM Workshop is my open-source Python toolkit for poking around inside Sega Genesis ROMs, extracting palettes, text and tile graphics for ROM hacking, translation and preservation work.
The retro workbench · Note 6 ↗
Custom Homepage: A New Tab Page With Unsplash Photos and Real Thumbnails
A small Chrome extension that swaps the new tab page for a clock, a rotating Unsplash background and a grid of site shortcuts with screenshot thumbnails.
Desktop tinkering · Note 3 ↗