What I wished existed, built to share

These are the reasons behind the tools: whose hobby each one serves, and the call in each that I’d defend. The tools themselves live at icnt.cloud.

Stravinsky, a desktop instrument

I built it for myself, and it holds one rule I’d put on anything: when a source goes quiet, it says so instead of drawing it as calm. The call that mattered was moving it off the web and into a native shell, so what it flags is something I can act on, not just read. See it

bandBuddy, field notes for a radio scanner

Scanning is a hobby of mine, and it happens with a radio in one hand. So logging is one-handed and tags itself (GPS, band, mode), and the searching waits until you’re at a desk. See it

WhoopDash, training decisions from biometric data

I wanted my training to answer to how I’d actually slept. The decision I’m happiest with: a recommendation has to pass a significance test before it shows. It would rather say nothing than guess. See it

Holliday, sporting clays data for a family member

A family member shoots sporting clays. It’s built for one shooter, so it chooses smart defaults over settings, and its job is to say what to practise next: far traps, fast targets, end-of-pair drops. See it