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Bill Anastas / independent projects

A personal
software library.

Small tools. Deep archives. Signals worth keeping.
Apps up front. Sites, podcasts, and tools below.

Bill makes websites and archives. (Sites)

  • The CD collection, with album artwork and artist links

    Silver discs line shelves Discogs maps every edition connections unfold.

    cd.banast.as (opens in a new tab)

    A CD collection connected through artists, editions, and Discogs metadata.

    Website / 2026

  • The yellow UA 571-C remote sentry terminal

    Yellow terminal five hundred rounds count downward film tension returns.

    UA571C.com (opens in a new tab)

    An interactive recreation of the remote sentry terminal from Aliens.

    Website / 2026

  • The FLAC library showing albums and audio formats

    Albums fill the grid bits and sample rates laid bare lossless shelves unfold.

    flac.banast.as (opens in a new tab)

    A lossless music library with artwork, formats, and listening paths.

    Website / 2026

  • SecondTrack’s film commentary archive

    Commentary tracks speak scenes indexed by timestamp context fills the gap.

    SecondTrack.org (opens in a new tab)

    Searchable film commentary transcripts, indexed by timestamp, person, and topic.

    Website / 2026

  • OverBlack’s screenplay archive

    Scripts spill in scenes characters cross the margins screenplays read aloud.

    OverBlack.org (opens in a new tab)

    An archive for reading and listening to screenplays.

    Website / 2026

  • Cinema Margins and its connected film archives

    Posters, tracks, and scripts three archives under one roof films leave their trace.

    CinemaMargins.org (opens in a new tab)

    Posters, commentaries, and screenplays: three ways into the films.

    Website / 2026

  • OneSheet’s wall of movie posters

    Posters line the wall search through credits, scroll for more cinema preserved.

    OneSheet.org (opens in a new tab)

    A visual archive of movie posters, searchable by film, people, and studios.

    Website / 2025

  • The Art Bell Archive website and broadcast collection

    Late night voices call near fourteen hundred episodes the truth is out there.

    ArtBellArchive.org (opens in a new tab)

    A searchable home for classic Art Bell broadcasts and late-night mysteries.

    Website / 2025

  • QuakeCheck’s earthquake map

    The earth starts to shake live data paints the map red ground beneath us speaks.

    QuakeCheck.app (opens in a new tab)

    A live earthquake map with seismic activity and optional alerts.

    Website / 2025

  • The Formula 1 calendar and race database

    Seventy-seven years of speed through every corner the grid never sleeps.

    f1.banast.as (opens in a new tab)

    Formula 1 schedules, race timing, and a driver database reaching back to 1950.

    Website / 2025

  • The photography archive with a selection of photographs

    Light captured in frames EXIF whispers the details each shot tells its tale.

    photo.banast.as (opens in a new tab)

    A personal photography archive with the details behind each frame.

    Website / 2025

  • The blog homepage and recent writing

    Words in Markdown flow syntax glows on the dark page thoughts rendered in code.

    blog.banast.as (opens in a new tab)

    Notes on technology, making things, and everything in between.

    Website / 2025

  • The deresolute visual archive

    Film stills, fading ink a mosaic of mood and grit beauty in the raw.

    deresolute.com (opens in a new tab)

    A visual archive of film stills, fragments, and found inspiration.

    Website / 2025

  • The vinyl collection with record sleeves

    Needle finds the groove Discogs knows what each one's worth wax and data spin.

    vinyl.banast.as (opens in a new tab)

    A record collection explored through sleeves, editions, and Discogs data.

    Website / 2025

  • The comic collection with cover artwork

    Pages stacked in long boxes, tracked from bagged to priced every issue counts.

    comics.banast.as (opens in a new tab)

    A comic collection, organized from cover to issue to series.

    Website / 2025

  • The book collection with cover artwork

    Shelves become a grid search by spine or memory all your books, one place.

    books.banast.as (opens in a new tab)

    A personal library made browsable, one spine and cover at a time.

    Website / 2025

  • The film collection showing movie artwork

    Discs and files align physical meets digital your whole shelf, one view.

    film.banast.as (opens in a new tab)

    Physical discs and digital films, together in one collection.

    Website / 2025

  • The Scorpion King VFX shot board archive

    Sand and VFX one hundred six shot board cards Scorpion King lives.

    sking.banast.as (opens in a new tab)

    An archive of VFX shot boards from The Scorpion King.

    Website / 2025

  • Ron Cobb’s Semiotic Standard symbols; vector adaptation by LouH, CC BY 4.0

    Cobb drew warnings bright for corridors in deep space symbols still endure.

    SemioticStandard.org (opens in a new tab)

    Ron Cobb’s symbols for life in deep space, collected in an interactive reference.

    Website / 2025

    Symbols by Ron Cobb. Vector adaptation by LouH / CC BY 4.0.

  • The LEGO instruction booklet collection

    Brick by brick, the page instruction booklets preserved build from the archive.

    lego.banast.as (opens in a new tab)

    LEGO instruction booklets, preserved and ready to browse.

    Website / 2025

  • The bright.supply screen light controls

    Screen becomes a lamp warm light fills the frame just right glow for every call.

    bright.supply (opens in a new tab)

    Turn a screen into a soft light for video calls.

    Website / 2021

Bill makes podcasts and restores old radio. (Podcasts)

  • The Decision Layer podcast cover

    Tools crowd every room judgment decides what survives real work meets the world.

    The Decision Layer (opens in a new tab)

    A podcast about judgment, technology, and the decisions that shape real work.

    Podcast / 2026

  • Art Bell Archive podcast artwork

    Voices cross the years old broadcasts return nightly Art still owns the dark.

    Art Bell Archive (opens in a new tab)

    Archived Art Bell broadcasts, returning the voices and mysteries of late-night radio to the present.

    Podcast / 2024

  • X Minus One podcast cover, the continuing Dimension X feed

    Old signals return strange new worlds speak through the dark tomorrow once aired.

    Dimension X / X Minus One (opens in a new tab)

    The complete Dimension X archive, now continuing with X Minus One’s classic science-fiction radio broadcasts.

    Podcast / 2025

Bill makes themes and tools. (Tools)

  • An Old Hope theme in Obsidian

    Vault notes glow in dark purple bold and cyan links hope returns to notes.

    An Old Hope for Obsidian (opens in a new tab)

    An Old Hope’s colors, brought into your Obsidian vault.

    Theme / 2026

  • Meridian’s world clocks and gradient background

    New tab unfolds wide gradients drift through every zone the world keeps its time.

    Meridian (opens in a new tab)

    A new-tab world clock with shifting gradients and time zones at a glance.

    Product / 2026

  • An Old Hope syntax highlighting theme

    A galaxy far colors syntax like the stars the Force in your code.

    An Old Hope Theme (opens in a new tab)

    A Star Wars-inspired syntax theme for Sublime Text.

    Theme / 2015

And one record, from 1998. (Music)