Apps
Coming soonUnderstory
A minimalist Zettelkasten-style notes app. Free-floating notes, transclusion, and a daily reading mode to rediscover what you've written.
Logbook
Interstitial journaling. Jot timestamped notes between tasks and recover focus after interruptions. Syncs via iCloud.
Minders
A journal for the Extremely Online — looks and feels like posting on social media, but for your eyes only.
Card Buddy
Organize ideas on index cards. Built for writers and anyone who thinks in fragments.
Fresh Cards
An easy-to-use flashcard app. Memorize a lot of information without fighting the tool.
Learn Numbers
A small series of apps for practicing numbers in different languages, plus a playful bingo-style listening game.
Older projects
Draw Me Something
Request drawings from others, or answer their requests. Go backend, custom JavaScript frontend.
SynthieJS
A functional-style audio synthesizer in JavaScript. Sine, triangle, sawtooth, square, and noise waveforms — built as the sound engine for retro 8-bit web games.
Diorama Club
A site for creating interactive fiction with a simple text markup. Three iterations across Node.js and Go.
YokosukaJS
A 2D sprite-based game engine for beat-em-ups. Written in a functional style in plain JavaScript.
Nested Notes
A note-taking app where notes nest inside notes — everything organized as a tree. Built on SlouchDB for sync.
Animata
A library for managing 2D game sprite animations using finite state machines. Powers Yokosuka 2000.
This Way or That
Collaborate on exquisite-corpse-style interactive stories. Originally Node.js, later rewritten in Go.
Lil Todo for Windows Phone
An early to-do app for the Windows Phone platform. I wrote a bit about it on the blog.
About & updates
I'm Allen Ussher. I write about the apps I'm making, the decisions behind them, and whatever else is on my mind on my blog. For shorter posts and release notes, follow @allenu on Mastodon.
For recruiters: LinkedIn and GitHub. Email is <my first name> @ussher.ca.