Work
Teams I have built for, in games, engineering software, satellite communications, music hardware and retail.
Contents
Development
Frameworks, tooling and hosting I 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 I 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. 111 articles so far.
Latest
A scalable real-time signal system in PHP and Node.js
A method for scalable real-time signalling in PHP and Node.js.
26 October 2026An introduction to MicroPython
Python 3, small enough to run on a microcontroller.
26 October 2026SWF disassembler
A disassembler and decompiler for the ActionScript 1 and 2 in Flash SWF files, in JavaScript for Node.js.
25 October 2026Key Hunt
A real-time multiplayer game with up to 32 players in each arena.
27 September 2026Asteroids
A real-time multiplayer game with up to 50 players in each arena.
13 September 2026Gamehoster
A self-hosted engine for real-time multiplayer games, where a game is a folder of small snippets.
3 September 2026Emulating a round-screen ESP32 board
An emulator for the board that runs the real firmware binary, down to how pixels reach the screen.
27 August 2026Real-time ray tracing on a round ESP32 display
A real-time ray tracer for the round AMOLED, kept interactive by tracing at low resolution and only refining the pixels that matter.
24 August 2026