@ractive Software

Everything I program, in one place: the tools, apps and games I work on now, and a link to the archive of the free programs from 1998 to 2006 whose source code I brought back to GitHub in 2026.

Current projects

The same projects as on the home page, in short. Most of them are written in Rust.

Tools

hyalo – a Rust CLI for markdown knowledge bases: search, filter and bulk-edit folders of .md files with front matter.
ff-rdp – a Rust CLI for the Firefox Remote Debugging Protocol: script and inspect tabs and the console over TCP.
hoppy – a Rust CLI for bunny.net: CDN, storage, DNS, streaming and edge compute from the terminal.
saturnus – twelve HP calculators emulated in Rust, in the browser, on the desktop and in the terminal. Its satx tool moves files to a real HP 48 or 49 and succeeds HPComm.
tab-mcp – lets AI apps such as Claude use a web page open in your browser tab: the page offers its functions as MCP tools.
almondbread – a real-time deep-zoom Mandelbrot explorer for the Mac, Rust and Metal underneath.

Games and small apps

brick-remote – controls Lego Control+, Powered Up, Boost and WeDo models from the browser over Bluetooth.
Lametric apps – live football and ice hockey scores on a LaMetric clock.
Air Combat – an arcade shooter made with MakeCode Arcade.
2048 – the classic number puzzle game, made with MakeCode Arcade.
15-puzzle – another classic number puzzle, made with MakeCode Arcade: bring the tiles in order again.
textmatrix – a VS Code extension that treats the editor text as a matrix.

Software archive

From 1998 to 2006 I wrote free programs for Windows and the web, among them HPComm, which Hewlett-Packard shipped for its calculators. The software archive tells what they did and links to their source code on GitHub.