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Bill Anastas / independent projects

A personal
software library.

Small tools. Deep archives. Signals worth keeping.
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Project directory

37 projects / by Bill Anastas

Apps

macOS App / 2026Released 01 / 37
Blit’s file browser and pixel-terminal transfer HUD

Blit

Move large files between servers, drives, and NAS shares. Every byte verified, with a pixel-terminal transfer HUD.

Big files cross the sea many streams, hashed where they land proven, byte by byte.

macOS App / 2026Released 02 / 37
Rune’s scratch editor and sync status, captured from its website demo

Rune

A small, fast text editor with one shared scratch file. Saves as you type and merges edits between your Macs.

One scratch file, two Macs saved as you type, merged, not lost every keystroke kept.

macOS App / 2026Released 03 / 37
Cue’s player and spectrum display, captured from its website demo

Cue

A music player for the music you own. Local files, network playback, and a spectrum display colored by the album.

Records find their voice colored signals trace the sound every bit arrives.

macOS App / 2026Beta 04 / 37
The X for macOS project website

X for macOS

An unofficial Mac window for X, with a focused desktop home for the timeline.

X in its own frame timelines refresh on cue pull to start anew.

iOS App / 2021Released 05 / 37
Where/When’s location and time capture app

Where/When

Save a moment with its place and time, in a single tap.

One tap, moment saved GPS meets calendar where you were, and when.

iOS App / 2023Released 06 / 37
SensorDash’s sensor dashboard

SensorDash

See your phone’s sensors through a dashboard of analog gauges.

Compass, pressure, sound analog gauges all spin your phone laid open.

macOS App / 2025Released 07 / 37
ProxyForge’s video proxy workflow

ProxyForge

Batch video proxies for lighter editing workflows, with timecode intact.

Heavy files made light the batch hums, proxies align timecode intact.

macOS App / 2025Released 08 / 37
PaletteFrame’s image and color palette tools

PaletteFrame

Extract color palettes from film frames and images.

Colors from the scene K-means pulls the palette out frames become a swatch.

Sites

Website / 2026Released 09 / 37
The CD collection, with album artwork and artist links

cd.banast.as

A CD collection connected through artists, editions, and Discogs metadata.

Silver discs line shelves Discogs maps every edition connections unfold.

Website / 2026Released 10 / 37
The yellow UA 571-C remote sentry terminal

UA571C.com

An interactive recreation of the remote sentry terminal from Aliens.

Yellow terminal five hundred rounds count downward film tension returns.

Website / 2026Released 11 / 37
The FLAC library showing albums and audio formats

flac.banast.as

A lossless music library with artwork, formats, and listening paths.

Albums fill the grid bits and sample rates laid bare lossless shelves unfold.

Website / 2026Released 12 / 37
SecondTrack’s film commentary archive

SecondTrack.org

Searchable film commentary transcripts, indexed by timestamp, person, and topic.

Commentary tracks speak scenes indexed by timestamp context fills the gap.

Website / 2026Released 13 / 37
OverBlack’s screenplay archive

OverBlack.org

An archive for reading and listening to screenplays.

Scripts spill in scenes characters cross the margins screenplays read aloud.

Website / 2026Released 14 / 37
Cinema Margins and its connected film archives

CinemaMargins.org

Posters, commentaries, and screenplays: three ways into the films.

Posters, tracks, and scripts three archives under one roof films leave their trace.

Website / 2025Released 15 / 37
OneSheet’s wall of movie posters

OneSheet.org

A visual archive of movie posters, searchable by film, people, and studios.

Posters line the wall search through credits, scroll for more cinema preserved.

Website / 2025Released 16 / 37
The Art Bell Archive website and broadcast collection

ArtBellArchive.org

A searchable home for classic Art Bell broadcasts and late-night mysteries.

Late night voices call near fourteen hundred episodes the truth is out there.

Website / 2025Released 17 / 37
QuakeCheck’s earthquake map

QuakeCheck.app

A live earthquake map with seismic activity and optional alerts.

The earth starts to shake live data paints the map red ground beneath us speaks.

Website / 2025Released 18 / 37
The Formula 1 calendar and race database

f1.banast.as

Formula 1 schedules, race timing, and a driver database reaching back to 1950.

Seventy-seven years of speed through every corner the grid never sleeps.

Website / 2025Released 19 / 37
The photography archive with a selection of photographs

photo.banast.as

A personal photography archive with the details behind each frame.

Light captured in frames EXIF whispers the details each shot tells its tale.

Website / 2025Released 20 / 37
The blog homepage and recent writing

blog.banast.as

Notes on technology, making things, and everything in between.

Words in Markdown flow syntax glows on the dark page thoughts rendered in code.

Website / 2025Released 21 / 37
The deresolute visual archive

deresolute.com

A visual archive of film stills, fragments, and found inspiration.

Film stills, fading ink a mosaic of mood and grit beauty in the raw.

Website / 2025Released 22 / 37
The vinyl collection with record sleeves

vinyl.banast.as

A record collection explored through sleeves, editions, and Discogs data.

Needle finds the groove Discogs knows what each one's worth wax and data spin.

Website / 2025Released 23 / 37
The comic collection with cover artwork

comics.banast.as

A comic collection, organized from cover to issue to series.

Pages stacked in long boxes, tracked from bagged to priced every issue counts.

Website / 2025Released 24 / 37
The book collection with cover artwork

books.banast.as

A personal library made browsable, one spine and cover at a time.

Shelves become a grid search by spine or memory all your books, one place.

Website / 2025Released 25 / 37
The film collection showing movie artwork

film.banast.as

Physical discs and digital films, together in one collection.

Discs and files align physical meets digital your whole shelf, one view.

Website / 2025Released 26 / 37
The Scorpion King VFX shot board archive

sking.banast.as

An archive of VFX shot boards from The Scorpion King.

Sand and VFX one hundred six shot board cards Scorpion King lives.

Website / 2025Released 27 / 37
Ron Cobb’s Semiotic Standard symbols; vector adaptation by LouH, CC BY 4.0

SemioticStandard.org

Ron Cobb’s symbols for life in deep space, collected in an interactive reference.

Cobb drew warnings bright for corridors in deep space symbols still endure.

Symbols by Ron Cobb. Vector adaptation by LouH / CC BY 4.0.

Website / 2025Released 28 / 37
The LEGO instruction booklet collection

lego.banast.as

LEGO instruction booklets, preserved and ready to browse.

Brick by brick, the page instruction booklets preserved build from the archive.

Website / 2021Released 29 / 37
The bright.supply screen light controls

bright.supply

Turn a screen into a soft light for video calls.

Screen becomes a lamp warm light fills the frame just right glow for every call.

Podcasts

Podcast / 2026Released 30 / 37
The Decision Layer podcast cover

The Decision Layer

A podcast about judgment, technology, and the decisions that shape real work.

Tools crowd every room judgment decides what survives real work meets the world.

Podcast / 2024Released 31 / 37
Art Bell Archive podcast artwork

Art Bell Archive

Archived Art Bell broadcasts, returning the voices and mysteries of late-night radio to the present.

Voices cross the years old broadcasts return nightly Art still owns the dark.

Podcast / 2025Released 32 / 37
X Minus One podcast cover, the continuing Dimension X feed

Dimension X / X Minus One

The complete Dimension X archive, now continuing with X Minus One’s classic science-fiction radio broadcasts.

Old signals return strange new worlds speak through the dark tomorrow once aired.

Tools

macOS App / 2026Released 33 / 37
Flatline’s menu bar popover showing CPU, memory pressure, and network activity traces

flatline

A lightweight menu bar monitor for Apple Silicon Macs. CPU load, memory pressure, and network activity, with live traces.

Green traces keep time three quiet signals reveal the pulse of your Mac.

Theme / 2026Released 34 / 37
An Old Hope theme in Obsidian

An Old Hope for Obsidian

An Old Hope’s colors, brought into your Obsidian vault.

Vault notes glow in dark purple bold and cyan links hope returns to notes.

Product / 2026Released 35 / 37
Meridian’s world clocks and gradient background

Meridian

A new-tab world clock with shifting gradients and time zones at a glance.

New tab unfolds wide gradients drift through every zone the world keeps its time.

Theme / 2015Released 36 / 37
An Old Hope syntax highlighting theme

An Old Hope Theme

A Star Wars-inspired syntax theme for Sublime Text.

A galaxy far colors syntax like the stars the Force in your code.

Music

Album / 1998Released 37 / 37
TSW — This Too Shall Pass album cover

TSW . This Too Shall Pass

TSW’s 1998 Boston hardcore record, archived with its original artwork and credits.

Boston, ninety-eight hardcore pressed to silver disc the noise still holds on.