Open Source

remove.bg hands you a blurry preview, then asks for credits before it releases the full-resolution cut-out. Under the paywall it is a background-removal model and an upload box, nothing more. junkyard.sh has the same thing running entirely in your browser tab: full resolution, no upload, no account. It is one of 48 tools I have rebuilt that way, all client-side, all free.

In 2024, I was in the middle of a transition period in my life, moving from Auckland to Melbourne. I had a lot going on, and one of the outlets I leaned on was working on personal projects. One of those was a charting library called “charted.” The gimmick was that I wanted to make it a completely zero-dependency Python library, beautiful SVG graphs you can use directly instead of having to lean on third-party libraries.