AI-made games and utils: free multiplayer browser games, and open-source tools for the Linux desktop, Jewish life and work.
Games, Jewish life, work and Linux tools — all free. Pick one, or jump to a section for the details.
Rules for Trifecta, a card game that chains War, Egyptian Ratscrew and 1-2-3-4, with Trifecta Plus and penalties.
A retro DOS AutoMenu-style launcher page for browser games, plus Oversimplified Breakout.
Self-hosted Shabbos and Yom Tov zmanim board for a TV or Chromecast, with your shul's own minyan times, weather and (in Israel) Home Front Command alerts.
Scheduler for Shabbos and Yom Tov: Sabbath mode on Samsung fridges, hot plate and urn plugs, lights. SmartThings, Home Assistant, Shelly, Kasa, Tasmota.
Community directory: self-service listings, email confirmation, moderation, automatic categories and a yearly reconfirm-or-remove cycle. PHP + SQLite.
Tool for language learners: pick a public-domain book or a Wikipedia article, choose your languages and level, and Claude makes a printable bilingual edition with every word glossed, the grammar tagged and short teaching notes.
▶ OpenTools for patent practitioners: fix PDF page sizes and DOCX fonts, language tags and tracked changes that USPTO Patent Center rejects, and shrink scanned prior art by about 45% with JBIG2.
▶ OpenTool that turns a list of patent numbers, or a folder of prior-art PDFs, into an Information Disclosure Statement: dates and inventors looked up, references sorted into the USPTO's tables, Word document written.
▶ OpenBrowser tool that puts reference numerals and leader lines on patent drawings: click each part once (or let Claude find them) and the numerals land in clear space.
▶ OpenDocketing for a small patent and trademark practice: USPTO deadlines and rules, Patent Center and TSDR notices read from Gmail, proposed closures you confirm, client reminder emails from approved templates, issuance and filing-report letters.
Browser tool to sign a PDF: draw your signature with a mouse or finger, or type an /S/ signature for the USPTO, place it and the date with a click, flatten fillable forms, and download the signed copy.
▶ OpenSelf-hosted Braintree Drop-in checkout for PHP: cards, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay and Google Pay. Enter your own keys, start in sandbox, optional card surcharge.
Let people book a time with you on your own website: a simple booking page, reminder emails, calendar invitations, automatic Shabbat and holiday blackouts and spam screening.
Shuffle player for any folder of music on Linux: mpv-based, media keys through MPRIS, resume where you stopped, optional COSMIC shortcuts.
Send and read texts and make VOIP calls from a Linux desktop. Works with voip.ms, Twilio, SignalWire, KDE Connect or any SIP provider.
Map extra mouse buttons to keys, shortcuts, commands and hold-to-shift layers on Linux, Wayland or X11. Includes an Evoluent VerticalMouse profile.
Panel add-ons for the COSMIC desktop: a word of the day in 9 languages, a sweat-cooling weather readout, multi-timezone clocks and a now-playing marquee.
Drag a box over any text on a Linux screen and read an instant translation in a popup. Uses your Anthropic API key or Claude Code.
A patch for COSMIC's KDE Connect daemon that fixes the TLS role on inbound connections, so your phone's link recovers by itself.
Free in your browser. Nothing to install, no account.
Musket
A Minions clone: knock down their towers, then their base
Why Musket? The powder-age sequel to Merlot, with drums, fifes and cannon smoke.
Merlot
A real-time strategy game for 1 to 12 players
Why Merlot? Named for the wine red of its steel winery.
Maroon
Maroon Isles Quest, a two-player co-op text adventure (parody)
Why Maroon? The deep red of an island adventure.
Carmine
Swarm Command, the two-player prototype for Merlot
Why Carmine? Carmine dye is made from swarms of cochineal insects.
Trifecta
A card game I made up, on its way to becoming an online game
Veered menu
The DOS-style menu at veered.org, and Oversimplified Breakout
Arrow keys and Enter, or 1–4. It launches the same games as the cards above.
Small tools that work on any Linux desktop.
Cardinalv1.0
A shuffle music player for any folder, with media keys and resume
Why Cardinal? A red, and a songbird.
Runs on: Any Linux desktop. On COSMIC the keyboard shortcuts install themselves.
Cherryv1.0
SMS and VOIP phone calls from your Linux desktop, with any SIP provider
Why Cherry? The classic cherry-red telephone.
Runs on: Wayland desktops, especially COSMIC and KDE.
Rufousv1.0
Map extra mouse buttons to keys, shortcuts and commands
Why Rufous? A red-brown found in the names of small animals, like the rufous mouse lemur.
Runs on: Any Linux desktop — it works underneath the desktop, so it does not matter which one you use.
For the COSMIC desktop on Pop!_OS and other distributions.
Redshiftv1.0
COSMIC panel with language learning, time-zones, weather and music
Why Redshift? Light from distant galaxies shifts toward red: the color of the cosmos, for the COSMIC panel.
Runs on: The COSMIC desktop (Pop!_OS).
Rougev1.0
Drag over text anywhere on screen and read a translation
Why Rouge? The word for red in another language.
Runs on: The COSMIC desktop (Pop!_OS).
Scarletv1.0
A KDE Connect fix so your phone's link to COSMIC recovers by itself
Why Scarlet? The scarlet thread that ties two things together: here, your phone to your computer.
Runs on: The COSMIC desktop (Pop!_OS).
More from me on Jewish life and aliyah at PatentlyJewish.com.
Flamev1.0
Shabbos and Yom Tov zmanim board for a kitchen TV or Chromecast
Why Flame? The red-orange of a sunset and of Shabbos candles.
Emberv1.0
Puts a fridge into Sabbath mode and switches hot plates, urns and lights for Shabbos
Why Ember? The banked coals a hot plate keeps going through Shabbos.
Terracottav1.0
Self-hosted community phone and business directory
Why Terracotta? The red clay of the tile roofs on a neighborhood's homes.
Rubricv1.0
Bilingual book maker: turn a free book or Wikipedia article into a glossed reading edition for language learners
Why Rubric? In old manuscripts the headings were written in red ink, and the Latin for the red earth pigment, rubrica, gave them their name.
Runs on: Any web browser: nothing to install. The translating is done by Claude (a free claude.ai account works).
From my law practice: PatentLawNY.com. Shared as-is; not legal advice.
Vermilionv1.1
Patent file tools (USPTO PDF page-size fixer, DOCX font/markup fixer, scanned-PDF shrinker)
Why Vermilion? The red ink of official seals and stamps.
Siennav1.1
Information disclosure statement generator
Why Sienna? The earth red of ink on an old docket card.
Runs on: Any computer with Python — Windows, Mac or Linux.
Sanguinev2.0
Patent drawing labeler: reference numerals, leader lines, on-page editing and a parts list
Why Sanguine? The red chalk that Leonardo and Michelangelo drew with.
Runs on: Any web browser: nothing to install, and the drawing never leaves your computer.
Pendantv1.0.1
Patent and trademark docketing: deadlines, USPTO notices, client emails and letters
Why Pendant? Named for the firm emblem it was built for: a gold and enamel pendant.
Runs on: A web server with PHP 8.1+ and SQLite (Linux, macOS or a shared host). Python 3 optional, for letters and forms.
Sign PDFs, take payments and book appointments on your own website.
Oxbloodv1.0
PDF signer: draw or type your signature, place it with the date, download the signed copy
Why Oxblood? The dark red of old sealing wax, how documents were signed and sealed before ink was enough.
Runs on: Any web browser: nothing to install, and the PDF never leaves your computer.
Redwoodv1.0
A Braintree checkout page where you enter your own keys
Why Redwood? A tree whose name is a red, for Braintree.
Crimsonv1.0
Website appointment scheduler
Why Crimson? The red that marks special days on a calendar.
These are tools I built with Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding assistant, and use myself. I'm sharing the ones I think other people may find useful. It is remarkable what AI can help one person build, and I hope some of these save you time.
Most projects are released under the MIT License. Crimson (consultation booking) and Scarlet (the KDE Connect fix) are under the GNU GPL v3. The Trifecta rules and the game art are CC BY 4.0. Each project states its license.
One link installs any project here. Paste this into Claude Code and it reads the live list, shows you a menu of everything available, and sets up whichever you pick — asking before each step.
Read https://veered.org/install.txt and follow it.Open in Claude Code ↗
The button needs the Claude Desktop app; the text works anywhere.
Or read it yourself: install.txt · the list it reads is projects.json.
My law practice, patents and trademarks: PatentLawNY.com.
Jewish life and aliyah: PatentlyJewish.com.
Questions: support@veered.org