Patrick Turner
I build small, careful apps and sites for friends, family and anyone who finds them useful.
Show Picker Club
Keep track of what you’re watching, and what the people you watch with are watching. Everyone keeps four lists: Watching, Awaiting, Loved and Next Up. Add a title and the artwork, cast, rating and next-season date fill themselves in.
- Private groups show you what your family and friends have on
- Premiere and finale dates land in your calendar
- See which streaming subscriptions you pay for but don’t use
Free on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch and Roku, or in your browser.
Parjamie
The classic race-home board game for two, rebuilt as a welding shop. The pawns wear welding helmets, the track is diamond-plate steel, and sending someone back to start throws sparks.
- Play on two devices over your own network, or pass one phone back and forth
- On your own, take on Sparky or Torch, the computer welders
- Turn hints, a built-in guide, and house rules like shuffled safe squares
Free on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Scoring Spades
The scorepad for Spades. Enter each team’s bid and tricks, and it does the math: nil, blind nil, bags and the 100-point bag penalty. The table can argue about strategy instead of arithmetic.
- Set your own house rules for nil values, target score and partner bids
- Close the tab mid-game and pick up right where you left off
- Runs in any phone browser, with no download and no account
Free on iPhone, or in your browser.
Shell Seeker by Ali
My wife Ali’s shop for her handmade coastal art. She gathers shells on beach walks and turns them into ornaments, ring and trinket dishes, wine bottle stoppers and more. I built the site so she can sell them.
- Everything is made to order, and no two shells are alike
- Nine collections, from holiday angels to salt and pepper cellars
- Checkout with live shipping rates, all in the browser
Ships anywhere in the US.
About me
I started programming as a kid, when my dad dropped my brother and me off at a Radio Shack class on BASIC, taught on a TRS-80. My first job out of school was making copies, but it didn’t take long to learn those programming skills were worth something, and my career detoured into software. I spent 15 years in corporate America, starting off as a programmer and eventually moving into leading technology transfer, then 10 years running my own custom software shop, helping companies turn ideas into software.
I’m retired now, so I code for fun, often building apps that solve problems for me or friends. That’s how I ended up with a scorepad so nobody fights over bags, a shared list so nobody asks “what should we watch?” for the third time, and a board game for someone who spends their days behind a welding helmet. They’re free and simple, and each one gets the same care I gave paying clients.
- Background
- 15 years in corporate America, then 10 years running my own custom software shop
- Worked in
- Visual Basic, Microsoft SQL Server, then the LAMP stack
- Say hello
- patrick@patrickturner.net
- Code
- github.com/turnepf