Hi there, I'm

Brandon Mathis

It's nice to meet you.

For me software is also a hobby and I love a good side project to keep me sharp. Here are a handful of projects I've created for the simple joy of building things.

HSL Picker

  • React
  • Typescript
  • CSS
  • Vite
  • Vitest
Source
Screenshot of HSL Color Picker

I started this project in 2011 to learn about different color spaces and experiment with new technologies. Today it’s a modern React/TypeScript app that also supports the HWB color space. It has around 40k unique visitors a month.


Court Shuffle

  • React
  • Javascript
  • CSS
  • Vite
  • Convex
  • Zustand
Screenshot of HSL Color Picker

At our tennis club we used playing cards to pick partners and courts. All the card handling and reshuffling as players arrived or left made it a hassle, so I built this mobile web app to make it easy to run a casual tennis social.


Octopress

  • Jekyll
  • Ruby
  • Javascript
  • HTML
  • CSS
Source
Screenshot of HSL Color Picker

During the great indie blogging bubble, I built Octopress, a powerful companion to the Jekyll blogging engine, designed to give developers a beautiful way to blog. With over 2.5k forks and more than 9k stars on GitHub, it remains my most widely known project. More than just a Jekyll theme, it included a robust code-highlighting system, social feeds (when those were prevalent), and a suite of powerful shell scripts to automate managing drafts, publishing, and even a hooks framework to prioritize plugin patches.

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