Software

I build software for worldbuilding, tabletop games, publishing, and the occasional problem that catches my attention. Most of these projects have public source code. This is a selection rather than a complete list; more experiments live on GitHub and Codeberg.

Worldbuilding and tabletop tools

• Iron Arachne is my long-running collection of generators for tabletop games and fictional worlds. The current source code is public; I’ve also written about the recent Workshop update, which lets people keep related results together.
• RPGGen is a directory of tabletop RPG content generators. Its source code is on GitHub.
• Made Up Names and Word Generator are libraries for generating fictional names and words.

Publishing and small utilities

• Site Editor is a desktop app for writing posts for this site. I wrote about why I built it.
• WLW Extractor recovers posts and images from old Windows Live Writer files. The story behind it is on the blog.
• GitHub Reports generates charts of repository statistics.

Earlier projects

These are older explorations and useful snapshots of what I was working on at the time.

• World is a fantasy world generator and a set of Go packages. Earlier versions of Iron Arachne drew on this work.
• Namegen is a Go library and command-line tool for generating names.
• Barge is a command-line tool for managing Docker Swarms through the Portainer API.
• Obelisk is a minimal blog engine built with Ruby on Rails.
• Xanjura is a small roguelike written in Python.