Things I built and left running.
Side projects that turned out useful enough to keep. They are not all the same kind of thing, so each one says where it actually runs before you click.
Toolkit
Design Context Kit
Points an AI at your live product and turns what it finds into design context you can read.
For when your AI keeps guessing at a product it has never seen.
- Runs
- On your machine
- Install
- Run one script, or have your AI assistant do it
- Your data
- Nothing leaves your machine
Figma plugin
Frame Cleaner
Rebuilds a frame with the fewest auto-layout layers it can get away with.
Worth running before you hand a file to somebody who has to edit it.
- Runs
- Inside Figma
- Install
- From Figma Community
Received multiple shoutouts in the community.
Runs inside Figma, on Figma Community(opens an external site)Web app
ASCII Asset Generator
Turns an image into ASCII art you can copy as text or save as a PNG.
For a picture that has to survive as plain text.
- Runs
- In the browser
- Install
- Nothing to install
- Your data
- No upload, no server, and it works offline
The same page is also served from GitHub Pages, and the source is public.
Runs in the browser, on this siteFigma plugin
Copy Helper
Rewrites the text you select in Figma to a brand voice you define yourself.
When forty labels all have to sound like the same product.
- Runs
- Inside Figma
- Install
- From a manifest rather than Community, so it needs the desktop app
- Your data
- No hosted service. One YAML file you write, and your own API key
Python app
HexMap Generator
Converts an SVG map into a pattern of hexagons, squares, triangles or circles.
Handy when a plain map is too literal for a slide.
- Runs
- On your machine
- Install
- Clone the repo and run it yourself