online · since 2005

Building the web

Jim Rowe — marooned on an island in the Channel.

Now

Developer, game designer, rugby fanatic, and board game enthusiast who's been making things for the web for longer than he'd like to admit.

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Jim Rowe

Projects

The ones I’d want you to look at.

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2026In development

LOWBLOCK Soccer

Tactical top-down football, built to be played together

A 2D top-down football game about through balls and holding a lead, not packs and points. Co-operative against the computer, online or on one sofa.

  • PixiJS
  • Colyseus

2026Live

Covert Mission

Group chat with one thing everybody is looking at

Real-time coordination for small groups, built around a shared Stage. When the Stage changes, a thread opens against it, so the record of what was decided writes itself.

  • Nuxt 3
  • Vue 3
  • WebSocket
  • Redis
  • PostgreSQL

2016–2025Archived

Tremr — Reboot

Conversational blogging platform built for discussion

Tremr redsigned as a discussion platform for substantial writing, structured conversation and visible trust. Rails, React, Cloudant and Firebase powered feeds, full-post responses and real-time interaction.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • React
  • IBM Cloudant
  • Firebase
  • Redis
  • Resque
  • Cloudinary
  • Embedly

Writing

Mostly old, mostly technical.

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