Independent software
A selected set of developer tools, products, and experiments. These are the projects with real users, a clear purpose, or an idea worth pushing further.
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01 / Developer resource
Free, validated developer cheat sheets with fast search, progress, and favorites.
A clean reference layer for the syntax, configuration, commands, and patterns developers look up every day. The catalog stays public, dense, and validated against current documentation.
02 / Developer platform
A realistic fake REST API for tutorials, prototypes, tests, and API clients.
The free API handles reads, writes, pagination, filtering, search, relationships, delays, and failure states. The next product layer is isolated environments with persistent mock data.
03 / Content product
A publishing workflow that turns videos into reusable content.
A content workflow that turns YouTube videos into articles, newsletters, social posts, and clean searchable transcripts.
More projects
Some are products, some are focused tools, and some began as a fix for a very specific problem.
A collection of focused tools that process code, files, images, text, and data locally in the browser.
A local control panel that shows running dev servers, port conflicts, project ownership, useful URLs, and stale processes.
A gated workflow for building software with coding agents through plans, feature specs, proof gates, audits, and written history.
An editor extension that inserts scripted code through the VS Code API without autocomplete or bracket-pairing interference.
A public directory for reusable AI agent skills, built around validation, inspectable permissions, and public skill passports.
A name availability scanner that combines provider checks, weighted scoring, near matches, and optional suggestions in one report.
The technical trail
This page stays curated. The complete project and tool catalogs, recent changes, stack details, and in-progress work live on bradtraversy.dev.