Austin Drummond

Independent software creator, and technology enthusiast.

I’m Austin — I build developer tooling, small macOS utilities, and re-creations of the games I grew up with. Each one does one thing, properly, and then gets out of the way.

What I’ve built

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Tools

macOS app & CLI

Butler

Local web development for macOS. Run PHP, Node, web servers, databases, caches, mail and storage locally — every project gets its own domain and trusted HTTPS.

  • One ~15 MB binary
  • No Homebrew
  • Per-project PHP & Node
  • Migrates from Herd or Valet
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon getbutler.dev
macOS app

TV Remote

Control your Apple TV from your Mac over the local network. Arrow keys to navigate, space to play, and a real keyboard for every search box, password and sign-in screen.

  • Type instead of swipe
  • Keep several rooms in step
  • Launch any app by name
  • No account, no cloud
macOS 14+ · free Read more
macOS app

BrowserRouter

Decides which browser — and which profile — each link opens in, by a rule table you can read. Work links to the work profile, everything else wherever you like.

  • Rules by host, path or source app
  • Chrome and Edge profiles
  • Imports a Finicky config
macOS 14+ · free Read more
macOS app

ClipWatch

A clipboard manager for the Mac. Everything you copy, a keystroke away, with the snippets you use daily pinned where you can find them.

  • Searchable clipboard history
  • Pinboards that are never cleared
  • Text and emoji expansion
macOS 14+ · free Read more
macOS app

DaemonControl

A front end for launchd. Every job on the Mac in one list, schedules written out in words, and the reason the one that stopped working stopped working.

  • Schedules in plain language
  • Finds silent failures
  • CLI and MCP server
macOS 14+ · free Read more
Chrome & Firefox extension

TabOrganizer

Five commands for a window full of tabs. Sort by title, website or domain, pull every other window into this one, or push a tab out on its own.

  • Sort by title, website or domain
  • Merge every window into one
  • One permission, no data collected
Chrome & Firefox · free Read more

Games