🎁 Small things without a better home

Having fun without clear goals? What a concept.

Text-based tools

• proof of concept journal app with a text user interface
• written in Python for the command line
• reasonably friendly; works with plain text files

• stack-based language with highly readable syntax
• string-threaded, very fast and easy to implement

• line editor written in and for Python, with some less usual features
• modern, friendly, self-documented, easy to modify

• a binding of the curses API to the Duktape Javascript interpreter
• comes with a port of the Dungeon Romp roguelike demo

Desktop apps

• A little personal database for media libraries and similar

• A toy text editor in Tcl/Tk for educational purposes
• 700 lines of crystal-clear code; works on low-res screens

• A two-pane outliner for Markdown and org files
• written in Python and Tkinter (now Tcl/Tk); works on low-res screens

• an outline note-taking editor
• written in Python and Tkinter
• works on low-res screens

Graphics

• simple previewer for 3D models in STL or OBJ format
• open source and portable; Linux builds available

• turtle graphics program for making banners and logos
• open source and portable; Linux builds available

Internet

• Gopher client for the desktop with clean, modern looks
• written in Python with Tkinter

See also

Last modified: 17 November 2025