Fysh tools.

What's here

Fysh is a one-person workshop for small, free tools that do one job properly. Each one exists because I wanted it and couldn't find a version I trusted. They're all open source under the AGPL-3.0, so the code is on GitHub for anyone to read, run or fix.

Nothing here needs an account to use. Below is what each tool does, who it's for and where to start.

Event Horizon Web

Event Horizon Web is a live map of what's going wrong on the planet right now. It pulls earthquakes from USGS, EMSC and GeoNet, severe weather warnings from the US National Weather Service and Environment Canada, hurricane tracks from the National Hurricane Center, wildfire detections from NASA's FIRMS satellites, volcano reports, tsunami warnings, space weather from NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, flood alerts from GDACS, and armed conflict data from UCDP and GDELT. Each source is checked every 1 to 60 minutes, and everything lands on one map you can filter by type, severity and time.

It's for anyone who'd rather know early: people with family abroad, people who travel, people who live on a fault line or a coast. You can turn on free push alerts for the countries and kinds of event you care about, with quiet hours, and there's nothing to sign up for.

Besides the map, it publishes reference pages you can read like a normal website:

• Active fault systems: the world's major faults, how they move, how many large earthquakes each one normally produces, and whether it's busier than usual right now.
• Countries: each country's hazard picture and energy mix, with its current threat reading.
• Supervolcanoes and large calderas: Yellowstone, Campi Flegrei, Taupo and the rest, with their current status.
• Prepare: official guidance for every hazard on the map, gathered in one place, so you can read what to do before you need it.
• Predictions and track record: what the forecasts said, and how often they turned out right.
• Documentation: how the map works, where each number comes from and what the threat levels mean.

Red Rocket

Red Rocket is an Android app for the moment an emergency alert goes off. You're not going to write a message during an earthquake, so you write it now, once, while nothing's happening. When a real alert arrives on your phone and matches a scenario you set up, Red Rocket texts the people you picked, whether or not the phone's in your hand.

Each scenario holds groups, and each group gets its own message: family gets the one about the spare key, coworkers get the one about the shift. Contacts reply with a single digit (1 safe, 2 safe and wants updates, 3 emergency), and the dashboard shows who's answered and who hasn't.

Firing is deliberately hard, because a false alarm does more damage than a missed one. It runs eight checks before sending anything: test and drill broadcasts stop it dead, phrases like "this is a test" cancel a match, and it weighs where the alert came from, since a government cell broadcast isn't the same as a push from a news app. Built-in presets cover 14 disaster categories with keywords in 22 languages across 35 countries. No accounts, no servers: everything runs on your phone.

Warp Gate

Warp Gate sends files, photos, passwords or plain messages straight between two browsers, without uploading them anywhere. Open a gate and you get a link and a QR code. The other device scans or pastes it and the two connect directly, end to end encrypted.

The server only introduces the two browsers and then gets out of the way, so your files never touch it. The secret in the link is made in your browser and never sent to the server. When you're done, you burn the gate, and the keys, messages and room are gone. There's no account, no file size cap, and no third-party script on any page that handles your data. That's enforced by the browser, not just promised.

It's handy for moving a file from your phone to your laptop, handing a friend a big video, or sending a password to a family member without it sitting in a chat history forever.

Who makes this

All of it is built and run by one person, on hardware at home rather than a big cloud provider. Some pages carry ads, and there's a tip jar on Ko-fi. That's what pays for the servers and keeps the tools free. Read more about Fysh, the privacy policy, or get in touch.