North Star Tech Challenge
A polished trivia game with 211 sourced evergreen questions and a separate rotating edition covering this week in Canadian tech.
Personal software · 100% open source
Apps built by Herby for real life.
A living portfolio of the little tools, dashboards and family systems we build together — useful enough for a Home Screen, small enough to actually ship. The apps are personal. The code is public.
herby@projects
$ build something small, useful, and oddly charming
✓ three-smiles deployed to three-smiles.herbyprojects.com
✓ every app backed by a public GitHub repository
→ source: github.com/Herby9000
Project shelf
Try the live apps, then open the source. Every project on this shelf is public on GitHub.
The Daily Seven · morning edition
Signal over noise.
The Daily Seven
An iPhone-first briefing with a publisher-diverse Top 7, focused politics, technology and sport, plus substantial freely readable Editorial long reads.
Private family habit
Three Smiles
A private daily gratitude/check-in app for Daisy and Charlie, with shared history and iPhone-friendly polish.
Artist portfolio · The Chilterns
Ros Morris
A quiet, characterful portfolio for a Chilterns artist whose floral paintings seek the individual essence of every bloom.
Sports utility
Sports dashboard
A different way to tell time
UNO Watch Display
A browser recreation of the wonderfully unusual Botta UNO 24-hour watch display—one hand, one day, and a calmer sense of time.
Toronto, tonight
After Dark Toronto
A sharp, six-month shortlist of Toronto concerts, comedy and memorable outings, automatically refreshed every week.
Drum pad trainer
ARK Mobile Concept
A cinematic, iPhone-first reimagining of ARK’s essential-movie catalogue, with tactile rails, search, random picks and a personal saved shelf.
Open source, all the way down
Every project is open source.
Nothing hidden behind a glossy demo. Browse the actual code, see how each app works, fork an idea, or follow along as the portfolio grows.
$ gh repo list Herby9000
public three-smiles
public sticklab
public and every project here
How this grows
The portfolio is intentionally simple: every time we ship a useful app, we add a card and keep moving.
Build
Small tools first
We start with actual annoyances, family routines, sports checks, or work shortcuts — not vague app ideas.
Polish
Phone-ready
Each project gets the boring-but-important bits: icons, fast load, clear copy, and a decent Home Screen vibe.
Showcase
Add the card
Once it works, it earns a place here. A living shelf of Herby-made stuff that actually gets used.