strider-ape presents
Dip n. a lamp; a small light kept on in the dark.
Logline A tinkerer builds small, free software, rewires every default and always stays for the end credits.
FADE IN:
INT. A SMALL ROOM - 2:13 AM
Dark, except for one monitor. On it, : plum, rose, a little sky blue.
DIP, known to the internet as , is fixing The clock says it is late. The commit log says it is not finished.
NEO
(to the screen)
What if it did one thing, and did it beautifully?
On the desk, a phone reboots into . On a second screen, , mid-frame.
NEO (CONT’D)
Okay. One more thing.
CUT TO:
Dotted lines have director’s notes. Hover or tap them.
NEO (V.O.)
The phone in my pocket runs a system I flashed by hand. My desktop gets rebuilt one widget at a time. Every default gets a second opinion. And whatever I make goes back out with the source attached, because that is how almost everything I use reached me.
dip@neo ~ % neofetch
dotfiles/Kitty.
Small tools, mostly. Each does one job. Most of them work offline and keep your data on your device.
A network monitor for the Plasma panel. It reads /proc/net/dev directly and costs next to nothing to run.
2026 · QML · KDE Plasma 6
A minimal, fast internet speed monitor that sits in the Plasma 6 panel and shows live download and upload speeds.
/proc/net/dev for precise, zero-overhead numbers.vnstat.A daily checklist that resets at midnight. No account. No cloud. No nonsense.
2026 · TypeScript · Web
Built for the routine things that don’t need due dates, priorities or project folders. They just need a checkbox. Every midnight the slate is clean and the tasks are ready to be ticked again.
It makes zero network requests after the page loads. The README lists every place your data is sent. The list has one item: nowhere.
An app with an audience of one. It rotates videos, and that is all it does.
2026 · Kotlin · Android
Mom found the menus in video editing apps hard to get through. So this app does exactly one thing: rotate videos.
No timeline, no filters, no export settings to get lost in. One job, done properly, for one very important user.
Your WhatsApp chats, beautifully decoded. Every number is crunched on your phone, fully offline.
2026 · Dart · Flutter
A privacy-first chat analyser. Export a WhatsApp chat, open it in WhatStat, and get a dashboard. Nothing leaves the device.
Cycles through several UPI QR codes so payments spread across bank accounts. Neo-brutalist and offline.
2026 · TypeScript · React Native
Plenty of shopkeepers want to take UPI payments without every rupee landing in one bank account. alterQR holds several QR codes and moves to the next one each time you share, so money cycles through all of them.
High contrast, thick borders, hard shadows, snappy micro-animations. Fully offline: the images never leave the phone.
An open source attempt at a one-handed cursor for big Android screens, in the spirit of QuickCursor.
2026 · Kotlin · Android
Phones keep getting taller and thumbs don’t. OpenQuickCursor is an open source take on the QuickCursor idea: drag a small trackpad near the bottom of the screen and steer a cursor up to the parts you can’t reach.
A distraction-free focus timer. One thing at a time.
2025 · JavaScript · Web
A minimal timer that stays out of the way so you can focus. No settings maze, no notifications begging for attention. Start it and get to work.
A fan-made site dedicated to the glory of the Berserk manga. Some stories earn a website.
2025 · HTML · Web
A tribute site for Kentaro Miura’s Berserk, built by a fan for fans.
Five minutes. Stretch your legs, refill the popcorn.
Fifty-five titles from the watch history, shelved by mood. Pull one out to read its card, or let the store pick tonight’s double feature.
55 titles · 6 shelves · Christopher Nolan appears five times
Trivia, deleted scenes and the odd confession. The arrow keys work, for anyone who misses a DVD remote.
Dip, written દીપ, means lamp. Neo means new. Together that makes a new light, which is a lot to live up to.
Built an Android app for exactly one person: Mom. It rotates videos. It does nothing else, on purpose.
Most of these apps make no network requests at all. The README for get stuff done! lists every place your data is sent. The list has one item: nowhere.
kitty, JetBrains Mono at 13 points, zsh, and a plum and rose theme. You are looking at it: this whole page is painted in the same colours.
Runs a custom ROM. Stock firmware gets treated as a first draft.
Keeps a repository of favourite Gujarati fonts, just in case. Typefaces deserve backups too.
Has starred 306 repositories on GitHub, from the Linux kernel to a Ludo game written in React Native.
Made a whole website for Berserk. Some stories earn one.
Reads the Hanuman Chalisa every day, from a small web page built for exactly that.
strider-ape might be two films in a trench coat: Strider, Aragorn’s ranger name in The Lord of the Rings, and the ape from Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Both are on the shelf.
There is always a film queued up. The video store holds fifty-five of them, and it will pick tonight’s double feature for you.
The quickest way to reach me is GitHub. A film recommendation is a fine way to open.
github.com/This is your last chance.