Carl Mitchell
I build small tools for problems I actually have, then keep using them. Here are all 24 of them: what's running, what I'm building now, and how each one works.
live tools
- livehomeMy front door to the internet. The week's writing on my subjects, read by Claude first, a YouTube feed with no algorithm, and videos written up as posts. One page, and it ends.
- livestop-the-slopYouTube by topic, from channels I chose. No algorithm, no Shorts, no discovery feed.
- liveno-spoiled-sportsGame highlights by sport, with the score kept out of every title and thumbnail until I press play.
- liveno-shortsA Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts everywhere and turns Subscriptions back into a plain chronological feed.
- liveARK companionAn offline field guide for ARK, Survival Ascended. Ask in plain English, get taming, crafting, boss and artifact answers from a hand-checked knowledge base.
- liveworkbenchA self-serve trial app for a PDF accessibility auto-tagger. Sign up, upload a PDF, get back a tagged PDF and its PDF/UA validation report, live.
ai tooling
- in progressClaude skillsEleven Claude Code skills I wrote for my own work, covering news triage, fact-checking, research, idea generation and game asset production.
- in progressserver-toolsClaude Code skills that run on both my desktop and the home server, starting with a YouTube-to-searchable-transcript indexer that now holds 470+ videos.
- in progressIdeaBoardWhere my ideas start. Every idea is a folder with its own README and CLAUDE.md, so I can open a Claude session inside any idea and run research or a critique on it, then promote it into a real project.
games
- in progressOpenWorld3rdPerson DevKitA shelf of reusable Rust/Bevy game systems (ocean, sky, inventory, crafting, building, combat) where every piece runs in single player, co-op and dedicated server.
- in progressLeatherstocking TalesA multiplayer survival and crafting game set in the 1750s Great Smoky Mountains, with an authoritative dedicated server, in Rust and Bevy.
- in progressOceanA real-time open ocean in Rust and Bevy, with FFT waves, a physical sky, volumetric clouds, storms and a sailing yacht with its wake.
- pausedEnshrouded buildsPlanning big builds in Enshrouded from historical photos, and the design for an Enshrouded-style voxel building system of my own.
- liveConan mod-list switcherOne command to swap Conan Exiles' active mod list between servers, instead of re-detecting mods every time I change servers.
music
- liveYear-End ChartsThe top 100 songs of every year since 1959 on the Hot 100 and Country charts, each linked to its video, with one-click playlists.
- in progresssongprintTurns an instrumental into a lyric-writing spec, with lines per section and syllables per line, so lyrics written for it actually fit the music.
- pausedreference-tracksA spec for turning "a song like Stairway to Heaven crossed with Highway to Hell" into a generator-ready prompt, without naming any artist.
- in progressCommon ChordA daily-style music puzzle. Find the word that links song titles by different artists, with the famous artist held back as a hint.
- in progressDiapason and MixtapeTwo music discovery apps. Diapason runs artist battles to find what you actually like; Mixtape turns a year and a mood into an era-accurate playlist.
- in progressSuno catalogMy library of 68 AI-generated songs, organized like a label's catalog, with masters, mixes, lyrics, release sequencing and the tools that work on it.
infrastructure
- livecarldmitchell.comThis site. Every project I've built, one README each, with a public layer, a layer for employers who have an access code, and a private layer.
other
- pausedLeague ManagerSoftware for running youth and recreational sports leagues (registration, scheduling, standings, referees) without an enterprise sales call.
- liveLinux hardware utilitiesSmall tools that make hardware without Linux support work anyway, including a reverse-engineered gaming mouse protocol and Corsair keyboard protocol research.
- livedramatic-bwRecreates a high-contrast black-and-white glow look from early-2010s photo editors, as one Python filter with three presets.