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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.
My law practice: PatentLawNY.com. Shared as-is; not legal advice.
Vermilionv1.0
Patent PDF tools (USPTO page-size fixer and scanned-PDF shrinker)
Why Vermilion? The red ink of official seals and stamps.
Siennav1.0
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.
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