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el · pre-press apprentice · design + dev
I build the tools that don't exist, so you don't have to.
projects
A tiny always-on-top now-playing widget with the Winamp energy modern desktops forgot — 300×100px, updates every 15s. Pulls data from users last.fm scrobbles.
Signal messenger, fully keyboard-driven from the terminal — for anyone who'd rather never touch a mouse just to send a text, an the strippe back ui terminal dwellers. WIP.
Replaced a job that used to mean handwriting ~385 density readings per job and typing them all up a second time. Now it's one scan-through and a finished report — in daily use by me and my coworkers.
Keeps a shared Tidal playlist in sync across everyone's own account in real time — without this app ever seeing or storing anyone's Tidal login.
A private, self-hosted take on the "where's everyone" location apps — live location, history, and driving stats, for a small group who actually trust each other. Another proof of concept/work-in-progress
A self-hosted radio station with its own auto-DJ — real loudness matching, dead-air trimming, and seamless crossfades, running five stations in production. Custom personalise music stations.
Built after a day I couldn't find a single SOP I needed. Grew from one small inventory tracker into the dashboard the whole proofing room now runs on — stock, maintenance, colour conversions, and more.
Bracket's sibling for anything that isn't a knockout — golf majors and European league tables. No ads, no login, no betting odds, just the score.
Every press drifts from the textbook LAB→CMYK conversion. This measures exactly how far, so a proofer stops eyeballing a second correction pass by hand. A work-in-progress never published.
Turns a dozen mismatched live-score feeds into one clean bracket that always knows what's on right now — World Cup, Wimbledon, the Australian Open, AFL finals, ETC.
No more hand-writing ZPL line by line. Design a Zebra label visually, on a real canvas, and the print code writes itself. Import and render images, clipart, and text.
cherry's labs
Cherry's Laboratories is a small lab studio run by a collection of nerds with a very diverse set of skills. We aim to create custom solutions for clients, research and development, and build out our ideas. The goal is collaborative learning and production, combining our skill sets into useful tools, software, hardware, and anything else. (more at cherryslabs.com).
Informally, it's a design-and-dev studio — we take on client branding, build up their business presence, and build our own projects for fun, including a couple of the things listed above.
My side of it is mostly design and ideas: brand identity, visual direction, and the R&D thinking behind what we build next.
update log
reordered projects to lead with print/pre-press work (xrite-export, proofing room, colour-match, zpl studio). added tidal-radio, a cherry's labs section, and real screenshots to the proofing room dashboard. filled in colour-match's missing detail, gave zpl studio a downloads link, and added the whereis logo to its project page. fixed a gallery layout bug, added a small animated dithered background site-wide, made card backgrounds subtly transparent, gave the tag bar a dark backing, and refreshed the bio.
added six projects: bracket, tidal-collaborative, zpl studio, whereis, signal-tui, and lastfm-widget. refreshed the existing three (fixed dead proofing-room link + repo, tech tags, colour-match title).
added details about colour-match tool.
filled in details for xrite and proofing room projects. linked to proper sites. Made small adjustmnets to blog page, work in progress.
site created. work in progress.