Stuff I built just for me in 2025.

It’s the easiest it’s ever been to make software–especially simple apps, single-serving websites, and scripts. This year I’ve been having a blast programming again and I’ve really embraced the idea:

Software is useful even if it has just one user.

This year I put together a few small apps for a single user: myself. They’re not scalable or secure or written to run on public servers or pushed to GitHub or tested beyond my own use case or ready in any way for other users or other programmers. They are all comically simple but help me get something done. They are home-cooked apps, and you’ll just have to believe me when I say they’re delicious.

In the spirit of showing my work—and to remember how and why I made them—here are a few of the things I built just for me in 2025.

• Tri Today: Told me whether and how far I needed run, bike, swim, lift, or rest today based on my personal triathlon training plan.
• Inbox Cleaner: Charts my daily progress toward an empty inbox against a goal end date, with a leaderboard of most-ignored senders.
• Cover Search: Finds high-resolution cover images for any given TV show, movie, album, book, or podcast.
• Curator: Generates a digest of interesting links, given everything I’ve written about on this website.

I’ve added these to my Projects page, in the hope that others can take the ideas and methods and adapt and expand on them for their own purposes.

Did you make anything small and simple just for you this year? Tell me about it.