// SYSTEM ONLINE · GILBERT, AZ · 33.35°N 111.79°W
OPERATOR:CHRIS REYNOLDS
I make software for a living and for fun. Some of it runs quietly in a Mac menu bar, some of it runs a card game at a tailgate, and some of it keeps a company's systems talking to each other at 3 a.m. All of it gets shipped.
DOSSIER
01 / ABOUTHi, I'm Chris. I'm a software builder in Gilbert, Arizona. By day I design and automate the systems businesses run on. By night I build the things I wish existed, and then I put them here.
The range is deliberately wide: native macOS utilities in Swift, an iOS card game with its own room server, web apps, and a growing pile of tools that glue APIs together so humans don't have to. Most of them began as a personal annoyance that I decided to fix properly instead of complaining about.
I like software that respects the person using it. That means it runs on your machine when it can, asks for the fewest permissions possible, carries as few dependencies as it can get away with, and only asks you to sign in when there is something real to sync, like a game room or a family's shared records. A tool you downloaded should just open.
- 01Ship small, ship often, ship signed.
- 02Local first. The cloud is somebody else's computer.
- 03One job per tool. Do it well, then get out of the way.
- 04If it saves one click a day, it was worth building.
- NAME
- Reynolds, Christopher
- HANDLE
- reynchr
- LOCATION
- Gilbert, Arizona, USA
- DISCIPLINE
- Software engineering, systems automation, product
- STACK
- SwiftTypeScriptPythonSQLAppKitSwiftUINode
- PLATFORMS
- macOS · iOS · Web · Whatever the problem needs
- KNOWN WORKS
- Loqui · Hues · Jabronie · Fourth & Drink · Nota · OutfitMuse
- WEAKNESS
- Scope creep at 11 p.m.
- SOURCE
- github.com/reynchr
PRODUCTS
02 / SHIPPED
Loqui
Local dictation · macOS
Hold a key, talk, let go. Transcribed entirely on your Mac and pasted wherever your cursor is. No cloud, no account.
Hues
Appearance toggle · macOS
Light or Dark, in one keystroke. A 172 KB menu bar app that flips your whole Mac with a global hotkey.
Jabronie
Jabra × Teams · macOS
Makes the Jabra Speak2 75 mute button actually work with Microsoft Teams over Bluetooth. Luchador included.
Fourth & Drink
Game-day card game · iOS
Live multiplayer card game for game night. Tap when it happens on the field, somebody sips, you bank the points.
Nota
Coming soon (maybe) · iOS
Records a doctor visit, transcribes it on the iPhone and turns it into a plain-language summary the whole family can read.
OutfitMuse
Closet stylist · iOS & web
Photograph your clothes, name a muse, and get complete looks built only from pieces you already own.