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Lucas van de Weerd

I make things that run on your own device: record players, a Windows 9x desktop, image editors, private browsers, terminal tools, local AI, and games starring Spot the black labrador.

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Finished things, works in progress, and forks. Each project lists its status and credits.

Players

A 3D Thorens turntable with a dust cover raised and an orange-label record on the platter, next to panels of VU meters and sound controls
PlayersAvailable online

Ultra-Realistic Vinyl Player

A Thorens TD 115 MK II in the browser, modelled in 3D from 104 photographs. Slide the speed plate, drag the arm, lift the dust cover and scratch your own records.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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A round tan handheld music player in 3D with four grooves of pink and purple lights forming a cross, on a pale background
PlayersAvailable online

Four Stem Player

An unofficial replica of both generations of the four-stem hardware player, in real-time 3D. Slide or isolate each stem, and split any song into stems on your own machine.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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A dark turntable playing a record with an orange label, above a tracklist of three demo tracks and the transport buttons
PlayersAvailable online

Realistic Vinyl Player

A turntable in one HTML file, with a modelled motor, tonearm and record surface. Load your own music, drag the tonearm, scratch the record, flip it to side B.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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The same turntable as pixel art in the NES palette, with a tracklist under it
PlayersAvailable online

8-Bit Vinyl Player

The same deck redrawn as pixel art, in one HTML file. It plays your own audio files in the colours of an NES, a Game Boy or a C64.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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A spectrogram with a dashed line where the sound stops at 16.6 kHz, with the findings for that file beside it
PlayersAvailable online

audiocheck

Checks whether a music file is as good as it claims: an MP3 dressed up as FLAC, or a hi-res file that is upsampled CD audio. No file leaves your device.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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Videoina playing a colour-bar test video under a frosted glass control bar
PlayersAvailable online

Videoina

An IINA-style video player for Windows and Linux. It plays what mpv plays, under controls of liquid glass that bend the video behind them.

GPL-3.0 licence. Source on GitHub.

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Spot

The Black Lab Spots share image: the headline Good things for good dogs in heavy black type on warm paper, with one teal dot
SpotAvailable online

Black Lab Spots storefront

A custom Next.js shop for the Black Lab Spots catalogue of 35 products, with Stripe checkout and Printify orders. Without keys, the checkout runs in a preview mode that charges nobody.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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A white product grid with mono labels showing a T-shirt, a hoodie and a cap with Spot on it, in three columns
SpotAvailable online

Blacklabspots grid shop

A buildless storefront concept with a white canvas, mono labels and a three-column grid of all 35 Black Lab Spots products. Prices are a snapshot, and there is no checkout.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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Editors

A teal Windows 9x desktop with a drawing program open on a flowchart, Minesweeper and Calculator in front of it, and Clippy in the corner
EditorsAvailable online

Paint97

A Windows 9x desktop built around an Excalidraw whiteboard, with a Start menu, Notepad, Minesweeper, Calculator and Clippy.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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An image editor with Hokusai's Great Wave open, a caption card over it, and a curves editor drawn over the histogram
EditorsAvailable online

PhotoCraft, my edition

PhotoCraft is an open-source image editor written in Rust, with layers, masks and real PSD files. This is its web version with my additions; the PhotoCraft team does not publish or endorse it.

Fork of storytold/photocraft. MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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A note with headings, nested bullets and a link, highlighted as Markdown, with a menu open beside it
EditorsNot published yet

Textarea

A minimalist text editor. Notes live in the URL, in your own document library, or in a file you export.

Fork of antonmedv/textarea. MIT licence. Not published yet.

Docs

Games

A neon pink and purple arcade page with a pixel-art retro-zip wordmark, a game on a small screen and a line-up of games to play
GamesAvailable online

retro-zip

A retro game library. Normal mode runs emulated games and Doom in the browser, and terminal mode plays six original games in a real terminal. It includes no commercial ROMs.

GPL-3.0 licence. Source on GitHub.

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Spot, a black labrador, running back across the grass with a tennis ball in his mouth
GamesAvailable online

Spot apporteert

A fetch game. Throw a ball across a park for Spot and look after him: he gets tired, hungry and thirsty. The game is in Dutch.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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Spot, a black labrador with a red collar, winding across a lawn towards a biscuit
GamesAvailable online

Spot’s Biscuit Snake

A snake game in one HTML file. Spot licks up biscuits to grow, and has to mind the fence, the flowers and his own tail. Press AI plays and a small model steers him.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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Spot, a black labrador with a red collar, chasing a red laser dot across a rug on a wooden floor
GamesAvailable online

Spot-light

Spot chases a laser dot around the living room and you keep it out of his paws. Three games, in 2D or 3D, and in 8-bit if you like.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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A black title card with a gold double border reading The Rubber Hose Revue, listing The Picture and The Game
GamesAvailable online

The Rubber Hose Revue

A rooftop cartoon with a musical saw, and Cannonball Capers, an asteroids game drawn the same way.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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Tools

A Windows 98 style learning dashboard on a teal background, with XP progress, daily quests, a streak, and courses in JavaScript, Python, SQL and Linux
ToolsAvailable online

edu-code-camp

Learn to code by writing real code: short lessons with hidden tests in JavaScript, Python, SQL and Linux, XP and streaks, eight looks, and Spot the tutor. All offline in your browser.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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A dark file library with a search box, a sidebar of downloads, notes and collections, and a long list of PDF, image and archive files
ToolsAvailable online

Xiao

A calm, private browser built on Zen: built-in ad and tracker blocking, stricter settings, Tor tabs, a randomized fingerprint and a silent mode that connects to nothing by itself.

MPL-2.0 licence. Source on GitHub.

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A browser with a purple sidebar of tabs and spaces next to a Wikipedia article about liquids
ToolsAvailable online

Hillium

An Arc and Zen style browser with Helium’s privacy defaults, for Arch Linux and macOS. Tabs in a sidebar on coloured spaces, a command bar, split view, four looks, and a CLI and MCP server for AI apps.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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A browser new tab page with a clock, a search box and quick links
ToolsAvailable online

Archium

A privacy layer for the Helium browser: an offline new tab, search that runs on your own Mac, a Tor switch with a kill switch, and a URL cleaner. Plus Archium Browser, a runnable browser with the same protection, three looks and a local assistant.

GPL-3.0 licence. Source on GitHub.

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The Skyhold web interface with a cloud remote configured, a list of photo files ticked for staging and an Add to vault button
ToolsAvailable online

Skyhold

For files you want off your computer but not lost. It encrypts them into a local vault, uploads them to any cloud through rclone, checks every copy, then drops the local files. CLI, TUI and web UI.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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A Finder-style window with a glass sidebar of favourites, and folders shown as icons
ToolsAvailable online

OpenFinder

A file manager that runs in the browser, styled after the Finder with liquid glass. It works on real folders on your computer, and inside the Xiao browser it is the Library.

GPL-3.0-or-later licence. Source on GitHub.

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A file converter with an MP4 file loaded and GIF chosen as the output format
ToolsAvailable online

Convert to it!

A file converter that works between almost any two formats without uploading anything. My fork adds output settings for each conversion, and much more.

Fork of p2r3/convert. GPL-2.0 licence. Source on GitHub.

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A Windows 98 window over a cloudy sky showing a 1998-style search page with a multicoloured Retrofind wordmark and an I'm Feeling Lucky button
ToolsAvailable online

Retrofind

Private web search on your own Mac, in the style of 1998. SearXNG runs underneath without Docker, under a start page modelled on early Google in a Windows 98 window of liquid glass.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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A page headed Turn any website into a Mac app, with buttons for popular apps and a build form
ToolsAvailable online

web2app

Turns any website into a small Mac app. A page on your own Mac for the Pake command-line tool, with a build queue, a history, offline builds and phone pairing.

Built on tw93/Pake. GPL-3.0-or-later licence. Source on GitHub.

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A Windows 98 window titled Qrer, QR Editor, over a cloud wallpaper, showing a QR code and export buttons
ToolsAvailable online

Qrer

A QR code editor that looks like Windows 98, with liquid glass on its title bar and taskbar. It reads codes as well as making them, and 2.7 adds an Art look and animated GIFs.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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Clippy Choppy

Clippy on your web page, in plain JavaScript. An unofficial fan project. The character artwork belongs to its owner and is outside the MIT licence.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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Terminal & AI

The LvW web interface on its Skills page, with an install box and a list of installed skills such as code review, research and test-driven development
Terminal & AIAvailable online

LvW-harness

A local-first AI agent with a one-command model manager for Hugging Face, GitHub and GitLab. It edits files, runs commands, browses and remembers, in a terminal or a web UI.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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The USB LLMS model manager in a browser, listing the models on the drive with sizes and a catalogue of suggested models to add
Terminal & AIAvailable online

USB LLMS

Run AI models from a USB stick on macOS, Windows and Linux, with or without the internet. One small program plus a folder, with a terminal UI, a web UI and Open WebUI. Nothing is installed on the computer.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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A Linux terminal in a browser tab showing uname and the Alpine release, with Browser VM, Docker and Reset buttons above it
Terminal & AIAvailable online

TabShell

A real Linux terminal in a browser tab. Install packages, play terminal games, then press Reset and it’s as if nothing happened.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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A dark terminal music player with columns of artists, albums and tracks, half-block cover art and a progress bar
Terminal & AIAvailable online

needle

A terminal music player with a full-screen TUI, a mode that keeps your shell, a background daemon and a JSON-lines interface for scripts. It plays what mpv plays.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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Terminal & AIAvailable online

QuickTalk

A quiet place for your voice: local-first desktop dictation and meeting notes, built with Rust, Tauri 2 and Svelte 5. A 0.1 development build.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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Terminal & AIAvailable online

Glyphium

A GPU-rendered terminal emulator in Rust, built on libghostty-vt. Early development: the desktop app, end-to-end scripts and fuzz tests pass.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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A terminal menu for textarea with numbered rows for a new note, quick capture, today, search, tasks, tags, sync and settings
Terminal & AIAvailable online

textarea-cli

Textarea in the terminal. Type text for a menu, or text buy milk to jot something down without opening anything. Syncs with Obsidian, Apple Notes and any folder.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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A terminal dashboard listing four containers with their image, state, IP address, CPU and memory, and key hints along the bottom
Terminal & AIAvailable online

container, my edition

Apple’s tool for running Linux containers on a Mac, with container here, which boots a VM inside your terminal with no background services, and container dash, a full-screen dashboard. Plus fixes and new options.

Fork of apple/container. Apache-2.0 licence. Source on GitHub.

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Experiments

ExperimentsAvailable online

Cozy Christmas Lab

An 8-bit room with a labrador, a Christmas tree and snow falling outside, on a screen of 256 by 144 pixels.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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ExperimentsAvailable online

Vinyl Player

An earlier record player in one HTML file, for your own audio files: a draggable tonearm, scratching, three speeds and a three-band EQ. The Realistic Vinyl Player is its remake.

MIT licence. Source on GitHub.

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ExperimentsAvailable online

Vinyl Player for Spotify

An earlier record player that plays your own files or connects to Spotify.

Apache-2.0 licence. Source on GitHub.

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About

Most of what I make rebuilds something old, like a record deck or a Windows 9x desktop, with what a browser can do now. Nearly all of it runs on your own device: no account, no server, and your files stay where they are. Lately that has grown to terminal tools, private browsers and AI models that run on your own computer.

Several projects are forks. I took an open-source project I liked and kept adding to it, and each one names whose work it started from.

l.a.vandeweerd@gmail.com
github.com/Gitguy268
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