Thomas Mason

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The Clutter Box Method

I found a life-hack that helps me keep my living spaces more tidy without the inconvenience of having to put things away immediately. What if you could just throw away clutter as if it were garbage?

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How To Do More With Your Time

Have you ever had a bunch of things you needed to get done, but you just didn’t have the motivation to get working on it? Productivity hacks won’t help much, but boredom will.

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Function Evaluator

To grow my understanding of programming languages, I built a small interpreter for a very simple functional language. You’ll have to read the code to figure out how to use it, so sorry about that. It’s not a large program though.

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Flight Simulator

I built a simple flight simulator in the Godot game engine. You’ll have to install Godot to try this project. Use the mouse to steer, and the arrow keys to do some extra stuff.

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What To Do With Gift Money?

A lifehack for ensuring that those who give you gift money can feel more appreciated.

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Why We Cant Focus

13 min video about why it’s so hard for us to focus these days and what we can do about it.

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Fathom

I’m in the process of making a diagramming tool that is designed for collecting, organizing, and displaying thoughts. Instead of attracting users by providing lots of customization like other diagramming tools do, Fathom is designed to be minimalistic, lightweight, and local. Fathom will also have an extremely polished interface and will be highly integratable with other programs Essentially, Fathom is trading customizability for features that actually help people organize their thoughts. This tool is also targeting programmers like myself.

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Writing To Remember

We already know writing things by hand helps us remember them, but what are some practical ways we can use that to our advantage outside of meetings or classrooms?

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Dvorak

QWERTY is the standard not because it’s better. It wasn’t designed to be efficient.

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Thinking Outside Your Head

When we do math problems, we use paper. But when we think about other problems, we often try to do it without paper, digital notes, or anything to write or draw with.

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Write As Fast As Your Grandma

I discovered the power of the ancient writing system used by our ancestors. Now I can write faster.

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Summary of GTD

Helpful summary of the Getting Things Done method. Useful for people wanting to get more organized.

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Toki Pona

I found an asthetic, minimalistic language with only around 130 words in its dictionary, so I decided to learn it. My search for a secret code to write personal notes with is now over. taso jan mi ala li wile kama sona e ona.

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Habits vs Goals

Everyone says to set goals, but it’s actually better to create habits. Author of Atomic Habits explains why.

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Indie Web

The community that inspired me to make this website.

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Utah Canyons

Enjoy randomly generated Utah canyons slowly scrolling past the screen.

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Tank Turn Tactics

I implemented someone else’s board game using PHP for a school project. Use at your own risk.

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Lightsaber Brawl

Use asdf, ijkl, numpad, and arrow keys to select your characters. Spacebar starts the game.

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Image Thresher

This is an easy-to-use tool for sorting through large amounts of images on your computer. It’s not very feature-packed, but it does one thing well: quickly sorting pictures into two bins.

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Fractal Art Generator

Use the 1, 2, and 3 keys to edit the fractal, then press the spacebar to render it. Read the code for more.

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Flick Soccer

Take turns flicking your pieces to try to get the white piece to the other side. Your opponent gets to place any pieces you knock out of bounds.

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Cookie Coin

A simple pseudocurrency manager that uses your browser’s cookies to store data. Money can be sent via email.

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Circle Generator

A circle generator for games like Minecraft. This generator has a fine-tuning scale so you can make sure the result looks as round as possible.

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Chord Piano

A synthesizer that plays entire chords instead of single notes. Good for exploring new chord progressions.

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Personality Typing and Me

I used to be super into personality typing, but as time went on, I found nothing actually beneficial in it.

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First Post

Having recently discovered the Indie Web, I’ve decided to join it. It might be a little while before I actually join it, but I’m planning on it.

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Tilebots

A turn-based strategy game where each player builds a robot and fights the other robots at the same time.

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Gladiators

Compete with your friends in a gladiator battle. Press Enter to start a battle, and Space to start an auction.

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Car Sim

Drive a car with the arrow keys and avoid crashing into other cars. Pressing U lets you pass through things.

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Barbershop

Wizard battle! Each player collects new spells for themselves as they play. Become the most powerful wizard.

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