Hey, I'm Rowan Vega

Small, fast tools for the web.

Independent web developer and toolmaker.

Fifty small things shipped since 2016, and most of them still running.

Right now I am building a lesson planner for music teachers.

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Ledgerline - A Plain Text Accounting App for Freelancers

Built with Svelte and a small Rust core
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Foldercase - A Bulk File Renamer With a Dry Run You Trust

Shows every change before it touches a file
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Ironwood

Offline, 240 species, no adverts
Quietloop - A Focus Timer That Never Nags You

Web Audio, no notifications, no account
Fernpost - A Static Blog Generator for Photographers

One Go binary, reads EXIF, builds 4,000 photos in six seconds
Tidepool

Reads the public buoy feeds hourly and caches them flat
Bramblecase - A Reading List That Lives in One Text File

Plain Markdown in, tidy HTML out
Slate and Chalk - A Lesson Planner for Music Teachers
Moth - A Log Tailer for People Who Dislike Log Tailers

One binary, colour rules in YAML
Pantry - A Shopping List That Learns Your Aisles

Offline first, syncs when the signal comes back
Wayfinder - A Route Planner for Long Cycle Tours

Elevation profiles from open elevation data
Kettle - A Deployment Runner for Small Servers

Shell underneath, with a log you can read
Brightwork - A Lighting Cue Sheet for Small Theatres

Exports to PDF and to the desk
Junco - A Bird Sighting Log With Offline Maps

Everything stays on the phone until you export it
Hinge - A Changelog Writer That Reads Your Commits

Groups by tag and never invents a line
Salt Flat - A Self Hosted Analytics Endpoint

One table, no cookies, three kilobytes of script
Copperpot

Handles grams, ounces and stubborn fractions
Nightjar - A Dark Mode Audit Tool for Design Systems

Walks your tokens and flags weak contrast
Sparrowmail - A Newsletter Sender for Lists Under a Thousand

Plain SMTP, and no tracking pixels
Trellis - A Planting Calendar for Kitchen Gardens
Bellhop - A Status Page You Can Read on a Watch

Server rendered, two kilobytes, no JavaScript
Stonecrop - A Plant Care Reminder Without an Account

Local storage and a very small service worker
Uncomment - CLI tool to remove comments from code

Built with Rust, and Javascript
Paperweight - A Print Stylesheet Kit for Long Documents

Widows, orphans and running heads handled
Rivet - A Form Builder That Outputs Plain HTML

No runtime; copy the markup and go
Kelp - A Feed Reader for People With Forty Feeds

Keyboard first, marks read as you scroll
Toolcrib - An Inventory Tracker for a Shared Workshop

QR labels that print on a cheap label printer
Anchorpoint

SQLite on the phone, sync over the wire
Drydock - A Local Environment Switcher for PHP Versions

Wraps the parts of Docker you actually use
Lanternfish - A Colour Palette Extractor for Photographers

Median cut, running in a web worker
Mortise - A Cut List Calculator for Cabinet Work

Accounts for blade width, at last
Foghorn - An Uptime Checker That Tells You Once

Backs off instead of shouting all night
Sundial - A Timezone Picker for Scheduling Calls

Shows working hours, not just offsets
Grackle - A Broken Link Crawler for Big Old Sites
Pocketsquare - An Expense Splitter for Shared Houses

Settles up in the fewest transfers
Loomwork - A Pattern Chart Editor for Hand Weavers

SVG out, prints at any loom width
Hearth - A Home Energy Log Fed by Photos of the Meter

Reads the dials on device, charts in the browser
Postmark - A Mail Merge Tool for Paper Letters

CSV in, addressed PDFs out
Basalt - A Web Server Config Generator

Caddy and Nginx from one short file
Quillcase - A Manuscript Word Count Tracker

Daily targets that forgive a bad week
Beacon - A Talk Timer for Conference Speakers

Big digits, gentle colours, no buzzer
Rookery - A Photo Gallery for Long Trips

Loads a thousand images calmly
Fathom - A Dive Log Reader for Weekend Divers

Parses four dive computer formats
Thistle - A Wildflower Identifier for Hill Walks

Works with no signal, 600 species
Coldframe - A Greenhouse Temperature Logger

A cheap probe, a tiny board and one web page
Gantry - A Build Queue for a Single Shared Runner
Marlinspike - A Knot Reference for Sailing Instructors

Step photos and printable cards
Pica - A Typographic Scale Generator for Print

Ratios that land on whole points
Halyard

Drag the names, print the sheet
Emberfall - A Campfire Ban Map for the Summer

Pulls fifty county feeds every morning
Nettlebed - A Seed Swap Board for One Village

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