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This is a list of the more mature Open Source projects in which I have/had a major involvement. Several other projects are on Github.

OCMock

macOS and iOS development framework / Objective-C

OCMock is an Objective-C implementation of mock objects. Thanks to the powerful Objectice-C runtime only 200 lines of code in two classes were required to implement a fairly complete mock object library. A few years and a few more features later we're at several thousand lines, though.

OCMock Site Screenshot
Download on the App Store

CCMenu

Mac application

CCMenu displays the build status of projects on a continuous integration server as an item in the Mac's menu bar. Or in other words, CCMenu is to OS X what CCTray is to Windows. And in case you are wondering: of course it is prettier.

CCMenu Site Screenshot

Quvyn

Web commenting system / Rust & Vue.js

Trying to avoid the well-known SaaS commenting systems I had settled on an open source system I could host myself. When development stopped, and I really didn't want to maintain a Rails app, I decided to write a minimal commenting system from scratch.

Quvyn logo

MaedaWheels2

Mac screen saver / Swift & Metal

A reinterpretation of the Maeda Wheels screen saver I wrote over twenty years ago (see below). This version stays closer to the illustration in John Maeda's book that served as my original inspiration. It's a bit smoother and efficient, too.

Maeda Wheels 2 screensaver preview

Thoughtworks 2021

Mac screen saver / Swift & Metal

When Thoughtworks went through the brand refresh in 2021 I took that as an invitation to write a new company screen saver. (I had written the previous ones, too. See Dancing Glyphs below.) The new screen saver animates one of the illustrations that were created as part of the brand refresh.

Thoughtworks 2021 screensaver preview

Dancing Glyphs

Mac screen saver / Swift & Metal

In 2016, when reading Cixin Liu's novel The Three-Body Problem, I saw a shape in our brand asset library at work that had three of the typical ThoughtWorks glyphs superimposed, and somehow I thought, what if those three glyphs were dancing around each other like the suns in the novel? Wouldn't that make a great screen saver? Things got a bit out of hand when I started implementing the idea.

Glyph Wave movie

MaedaWheels

Mac screen saver / Objective-C

This is a small screensaver I wrote in 2001 after reading MAEDA@MEDIA. At the time my PowerBook Pismo was a bit too slow to render this at acceptable framerates but now it looks as lovely as it was intended. The actual animation depends on the mouse position. So, be surprised by new patterns each time, or move the mouse while the screen saver is active.

Maeda Wheels Screenshot

Neo

C# / Microsoft .NET framework

Neo is a framework for .NET developers who want to write enterprise applications with an object-based domain model. It is well suited for domain-driven design and agile development. Neo includes tools that create an extensible object-based domain model as well as the database schema from a an abstract description of the model. At runtime, rich schema information is used to dynamically generate all SQL required for object persistence management.

Neo Site Screenshot

ED Frameworks

Objective-C / Cocoa / GNUstep framework

A collection of frameworks for Mac OS X, GNUstep and WebObjects. The Common framework provides advanced datastructures, socket wrapper classes, a lightweight XML DOM implementation and other goodies. The Message framework covers internetmessages (in the sense of email and usenet postings) and the Style Sheet framework is a templating engine.

EDFrameworks Site Screenshot

WordNet.app

Mac OS X application

I came across WordNet while writing my thesis and since there was no client for the platform I was using at the time I wrote one. In the following years Marcus did a great job porting it all the way to Mac OS X.

WordNet Site Screenshot

Alexandra

NeXTSTEP application

In 1995 Constantin asked me whether I wanted to join him in his effort to write a good Usenet newreader for the NeXTSTEP platform; something that was desperately needed at the time. A while later we released Alexandra 0.8, which became a huge success and was at times the most popular newsreader for NeXTSTEP.

Alexandra Site Screenshot