Most of my projects are pragmatic tools written to replace bloated software, cloud-first wanky-ness and tools that actively get in the way of doing actual work.
They exist because I needed them, used them and just got sick of subscribtion "professional" software being worse than what I can do myself or costing an arm and a leg to do basic functions.
- Ash's P&ID Playground – Legit one of my best programs to date, draw out P&ID diagrams with drage and drop functionality and then simulate flow through the system. Once youre done package it all up in some nice ISO engineering drawings along with the analysis and full BOM.
- Modbus RTU Tester – Debug Modbus devices locally without vendor software, serial terminal archaeology, or blind faith.
- Construction Cost Calculator – Construction cost calculator for engineers who prefer arithmetic and logic over optimism and don’t enjoy being gaslit by spreadsheets.
- Cable Tray Calculator – Calculate cable tray fill, weights, and sanity without spreadsheets, guesswork, or site arguments that start with “it should be fine”.
- Engineering Drawing Maker – Turn images and PDFs into proper ISO-style engineering drawings without AutoCAD, SolidWorks, licence servers, or a multinational claiming custody of your own work.
- OBJ Viewer – Preview OBJs, bake lighting, and render clean turntable animations to MP4 or GIF. No cloud, no accounts, no Blender pilgrimage.
- STL to OBJ Converter – A local STL → OBJ converter with batch drag-and-drop, vertex welding, mesh cleanup, and basic transforms. No cloud, no accounts, no Autodesk
- Video Converter – FFmpeg GUI for converting videos without memorising flags or naming files
final_v7_REAL_THIS_ONE.mp4. - Image Converter – Convert images between formats, resize them sensibly, and generate ICO files without opening Photoshop or questioning your life choices.
- PDF Manipulator – Merge and split PDFs without Adobe, Java, subscriptions, or spiritual compromise.
- Free to use, available to everyone
- Local-first
- No cloud dependencies
- No subscriptions
- No telemetry
- EXEs included where it makes sense
- Source always available
If you want to help out the projects and update, bugfix etc please feel free to send pull requests. I do have a day job so apologies if it takes me a while to get round to reviewing and merging your code. Will give full credits in the ReadMe to anyone who makes my code less janky!