Projects

16 open-source projects and tools.

You Build It

Less watching.
More building.

Get out of the tutorial loop. Build real tools, explore new ideas, and sharpen your skills in your own editor.

Find your next challenge
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Intermediate

Build your own Redis ↗

Key-value storage, persistence, and network protocols.

  • Data structures
  • Networking
  • Persistence
Solution included
TypeScriptPythonGoRustJavaScript

Every challenge includes a reference solution. Build your version, then compare.

Free to explore. No account. Just you and your editor.

Smeltery Labs

Less friction. More building.

Small tools.
Bigger possibilities.

Open-source tools for coding agents, Mac workflows, and the everyday work between an idea and a release.

Explore the lab

Open source. Made to be useful.

Transmute Core

From engine to adventure

Small engine.
Whole worlds.

Build 2D pixel games in Java, from your first frame to a world worth exploring. Every frame in your hands.

Explore the engine
A pixel landscape with an adventurer, trees, platforms, and collectible coins

Imagine. Build. Play.

Built with Transmute Core

Minicraft

A whole world. Meet Minicraft.

A Minicraft+ adaptation powered by Transmute Core, with singleplayer survival and LAN multiplayer. See the engine become a playable game.

Open Source

All of my projects can be found on my GitHub and across smeltery, transmute-games, daily-coding-problem, youbuildit, and privydns organization pages.