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One hand,
many side projects.

Alley 21 is the umbrella for the small, sharp tools I keep building — some for developers shipping production code, some for the tabletop group I run on Sundays. Different audiences, same maker, same care.

1 live · 2 in alpha · more coming

Projects

What's shipping today, what's in alpha, and what's next on the bench.

sherlog
code live
A robot that lives in your repo and health-checks every pull request. GitHub App + VS Code extension + CLI. Free tier ships today; Pro at $20/mo.
sherlog.alley21.dev →
sherlog audit
code alpha
Human-delivered repo audits — one PDF, one focused recommendation, one week. $49 / $149 / $299 depending on depth. Booking via email while the order form is built.
by request —
tabletop tools
tabletop coming
A small kit for the TRPG groups I run — encounter scaffolding, session journaling, and a lightweight digital screen. Nothing public yet; first preview later this year.
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more on the bench
coming
Other ideas in various states of cooking. Each gets its own subdomain under alley21.dev when it's ready to meet people.
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About the workshop

Why one umbrella for code and tabletop stuff?

Alley 21 is named after the back-alley workbenches where the projects on this site got started — small, well-lit, and kept deliberately uncluttered. One person makes everything here, so the catalog stays small on purpose.

Why one studio for both code tools and tabletop tools? Because the same instinct drives both — make the boring part faster so the interesting part has more room. A linter that catches the stupid stuff is the same idea as a session journal that handles bookkeeping so the table can play.

How to follow what's next: each project gets its own subdomain (like sherlog.alley21.dev) and announcements ship from there. No newsletter yet — keeping the surface area small until each thing earns its audience.

For anything: hello@alley21.dev.