Utility at heart.
Stuff by Mike.
eightyfour.ca is the home for my personal software projects: web and native apps purpose-built to serve specific needs in my personal and professional life. I build them to scratch my own itch, and occasionally share them with the world for the greater good.
More about me at my personal site, pandymic.com, or over on GitHub.
Featured stuff
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Simply Told
A native audiobook player for local, long-form audio: directory-based loading, session restore, history resume, a drag-to-reorder queue, bookmarks, a sleep timer and Android Auto.
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Konbini Quest
Play now in your browser. A quiz and board game about Japan travel etiquette: answer questions to ride a voxel Tokyo subway to your destination, solo, with friends on one phone, or online.
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Delve
Free in your browser, on the Nintendo DS and on Android. Pick a door, fight the room, die, come back stronger. An action roguelike with four bosses and a dungeon that never bottoms out.
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Chibi Craters
Coming soon to Android. A turn-based artillery game with destructible voxel terrain, big-headed chibi drivers and tiny tanks: aim, set your power and fire.
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Parapit
Coming soon to Android. A retro side-scroller across a crumbling stone wall in a thunderstorm, where balance is your health and you set the pace.
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Imagein
Coming soon to Android. Turns big photos into light JPEGs that are quick to share by email, chat or anywhere else, with metadata stripped by default.
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Simpleech
Coming soon to Android. A lightweight BitTorrent client for one download at a time: paste a magnet link, pick a folder, and it disconnects when done.
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mcservice
A self-hosted web console and live map for a Paper Minecraft server: player positions, rail networks with remote junction control and route planning, landmarks and warps, backups.
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Odds and ends
Assorted helpers and utilities for small tasks, documented and released for public use when the need arises.
Blast from the past
Featurettes, tools and toys from the early days of the web, rebuilt to run in a modern browser. Part museum, part tutorial: each one explains how the old thing worked and lets you try it yourself.
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VRML 2.0
In 1997 the web was going to be 3D. An interactive book in the style of a '90s computer manual that teaches VRML, with every example running live in a VRML97 browser built from scratch, and a Workbench for building your own worlds.
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Wayback
pandymic.com from 2003 to today, every version rebuilt from the Wayback Machine and old backups: a scrolling timeline, with the English/Elvish Lexicon, a Japanese dictionary, a wallpaper generator and a few Flash-era side quests working again.
Philosophy
Everything here starts as a solution to a personal or professional friction. Whether it ships as a native Android or iOS app or a progressive web app, the goal is always utility over complexity.