Clients
Teams we have built for, in games, engineering software, satellite communications, music hardware and retail.
Contents
Development
Frameworks, tooling and hosting we build and run in the open.
- Frontend Development frontends.com
- Stylesheet.css stylesheet.org
- PHP Framework phpframework.org
- Localhoster localhoster.org
- Datahoster datahoster.org
- Sitehoster sitehoster.org
Guides
Reference guides we research, write and keep current.
- Markdown markdown.org
- GPU Guide gpu.org
- MicroPython micropython.com
Research
Long-running investigations into how software could be written, replicated and undone.
- ReactiveJS reactivejs.org
- Program program.org
- CRDT crdt.org
- Reversibility reversibility.org
Games
Games, the servers that run them, and the machines that ran the games before them.
- Rocks Off! rocksoff.net
- Key Hunt keyhunt.com
- Asteroids asteroids.net
- Buttermilk buttermilkforever.com
- Sprites.org sprites.org
- Emulators emulators.org
- Gamehoster gamehoster.org
Art
Generative graphics, fractal geometry and the music they are set to.
- Polygonals polygonals.com
- Experimental AI music soundcloud.com
- Fractals fractals.com
Articles
Thirty years of experiments, from MS-DOS games and 1998 Java applets to WebGL raytracers, and the Flash, Java and MS-DOS demos run again in your browser. 92 articles so far.
Latest
SWF disassembler
Turning the bytecode in a Flash movie back into ActionScript: reading the SWF, decoding AVM1, running the stack code symbolically and rebuilding the loops and ifs.
25 October 2026Composable type checking for JavaScript
Write-up to come.
29 May 2024Generating short ordered IDs with any insertion pattern
Giving ordered elements short IDs that reflect their position, whatever order they are inserted in: a naive approach, LSEQ and a tree of IDs.
4 May 2024Counting up to 2^256 unique values using only O(1 byte)
Estimating how many unique values a stream has seen when you do not need the exact number, in a single byte of storage.
21 April 2024Making a node module which works both on frontend and backend
Patterns for writing one module that runs on both the frontend and a Node.js backend.
12 April 2024On address space sizes
A 64-bit pointer addresses 16 exabytes: what that much address space allows beyond future proofing.
7 April 2024Asteroids
A multiplayer Asteroids arena written in JavaScript, with rooms running on Gamehoster.
15 March 2023Comparison of JavaScript binary data objects
The objects JavaScript offers for binary data, from ArrayBuffer and typed arrays to Node's Buffer, and how they differ between Node.js and the browser.
15 March 2023