PHP developer · Exeter, UK
Twenty years of web development, a day job running IT for an e-commerce group, and a growing shelf of Mac and iPhone apps I'd never have had time to build alone.
Free, open-source Mac tools I use every day at work, and a puzzle game just for fun.
macOS app
Your databases. One fast window.
A native MySQL client for macOS. Every server in one sidebar, queries in tabs that can each point at any server, and result edits previewed as real UPDATE statements before anything is saved.
macOS app
Git, at a glance. Every repo, one click.
A 2 MB native Git client for macOS. A colour-coded commit graph, Pull All across every repository in parallel (fast-forward only, so no surprise merge commits) and squash-before-you-push.
iPhone & iPad game
Pop-star logic puzzles.
A relaxing logic puzzle with a sparkly pop twist. Find one outfit in every row, column and colour zone, with no two touching. Every level has a new look, and every puzzle has exactly one solution.
I'm a PHP developer at heart: MySQL, REST APIs and e-commerce back ends. Claude is how that experience turned into Swift apps.
MysqlDesk and GitDesk exist because I wanted faster tools for my own day job. Knowing the problem inside out matters more than knowing the language.
I describe the behaviour, Claude Code writes the Swift, and I review every change the way I'd review a colleague's pull request.
A preview before every database write, fast-forward-only pulls, a solver that proves each puzzle has one answer. The safety nets come first.
Everything ends up on GitHub or the App Store. Small, native and free where I can make it so.
