Tools & Toys by the Same Maker

Daily pollen and air quality

Grass, tree, and weed pollen counts plus air quality for your location. Free, no sign-up.

Build your mailing list effortlessly

Create signup forms, manage subscribers, and grow a list with double opt-in verification. No technical skills required.

Typography-only social posts

A mobile-first editor for posts made of nothing but letters. Pick a font, type, download a pixel-exact PNG.

Better emails, less effort

Free tools, templates, and playbooks for Constant Contact users. Write the email, plan the week, grow the list, then send it from your own account.

Design beautiful mesh gradients

Design, animate, and export mesh gradients in the browser: 11 rendering styles, multi-layer compositing, and export to PNG, CSS, or GLSL.

One quiet place for every project's backlog

Edit your repo's BACKLOG.md from a calm, focused workspace. The source of truth stays in GitHub, where it belongs.

Email marketing, done with you

Strategy, content, and campaigns worked through alongside you, pairing what you know about your business with their email expertise.

Get your business online, simply

Free tools, plain-English playbooks, and insights for getting a business online: domains, email, and websites, done right.

Break out of a wall of neon glass

One seeded wall a day, three balls, highest score. Everyone gets the same wall, so a refresh is not a free retry.

The daily eye-estimation game

How close can you guess? A new image-estimation puzzle each day. Score, share, repeat.

Tiny, delightful one-page apps

A growing collection of small, focused, one-page web toys, built for fun and to scratch tiny itches.

A daily word puzzle

Twelve letter blocks, and you have to use every one. A free daily puzzle that takes a couple of minutes.

Flick a deck into a bowl, daily

One room a day, ten cards, one bowl across the floor. Flick clean for spin, or hook it around the couch.

A daily path puzzle

Draw a single trail through every cell on a 6x6 grid, hitting the numbered dots in order. A new puzzle every day.

A daily word hunt

A new letter grid every day. Trace through touching letters to hunt down as many words as you can, and keep a streak going.

How close can you get?

Press START, then STOP when you think exactly five seconds have passed. Deceptively hard, over in a moment.

A position on product design

AI speeds everything up. It still cannot tell you what to build. An argument for why experience matters more than ever.

AI, and the human in the loop

AI is the most powerful tool we have ever handed a person. It still cannot judge what is worth doing, or whether it worked.