What Projects Are Listed on matdoes.dev?

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matdoes.dev is the personal site of a developer named mat, and its Projects section lists a long-running catalog of tools, bots, archives, and experiments—most of them built around Minecraft, with a secondary cluster of web utilities and search tools. The list spans projects started as early as 2018 and still updated in 2025, and each entry includes a short description and a date range (for example, "2021 - now" or "2019 - 2024"), so you can tell at a glance what is active and what has ended. If you are looking for a specific Minecraft developer tool or a niche archive, the site is worth scanning; if you want a polished product with support, most of these are personal projects.

Minecraft-focused tools and libraries

The largest group of projects serves Minecraft bot development, protocol work, and data tooling:

  • Azalea (2021 - now): a collection of Rust crates for making Minecraft bots, clients, and tools.
  • matscan (2022 - now): an internet-scale Minecraft server scanner with an automated warning system for admins.
  • simdnbt (2023 - now): a highly optimized Rust implementation of the NBT format used by Minecraft.
  • mat's packet debugger (2023 - now): a tool for inspecting Minecraft protocol packets.
  • Azalea Burger (fork) (2024 - now): automated reverse-engineering of modern Minecraft versions.
  • msdsmchr (2022 - now): a fast Minecraft head rendering API.
  • Minecraft Assets (2020 - 2024): a user-friendly interface for viewing assets from all Minecraft versions.
  • Minecraft UUID archives (2024 - now): archives of nearly every Minecraft player UUID and metadata.
  • SkyBlock Stats (2019 - 2024): a feature-rich web interface for the Hypixel SkyBlock API.
  • SkyBlock API (2021 - 2024): a wrapper for the official SkyBlock API.

If you write Minecraft tooling in Rust, Azalea and simdnbt are the most directly reusable; if you need to inspect traffic or look up player data, the packet debugger and UUID archives are the practical entries.

Web tools, search, and archives

A second cluster covers general web utilities and unusual archives:

  • seized.fyi (2024 - now): an archive of website seizure banners created by government agencies.
  • metasearch2 (2023 - now): a metasearch engine described as "cute and efficient."
  • Web Utils (2021 - now): a site of convenient utilities for software developers.
  • x227f (2023 - now): a web crawler for 88x31 buttons.
  • Internet Roadtrip Pathfinder (2025 - now): reverse-engineering a web game and Google Street View for optimal pathfinding.
  • matdoesdev-protocols (2023 - now): mirrors the site over SSH, Telnet, Gemini, Gopher, and other protocols.

These are mostly small, self-contained experiments. metasearch2 and Web Utils are the ones with obvious day-to-day use; the protocol mirrors are interesting if you want to see the same content served over non-HTTP channels.

Older and discontinued projects

Several entries have end dates, which signals they are no longer maintained:

  • Variance (2023 - 2025): an opinionated fork of Cinny aimed at aligning more closely with Discord.
  • i.matdoes.dev and Old i.matdoes.dev (2021 - 2023 and 2019 - 2021): simple image hosts.
  • metasearch v1 (2020 - 2023): the earlier metasearch engine.
  • Forum Sweats (2020 - 2022): a Discord bot with unique features.
  • 4bit (2018 - 2019): a Discord utility bot used by nearly 1,000 servers.
  • Repldex (2018 - 2020): a collaborative wiki for Replit lore.
  • Repl Talk API and Repl Talk Bot (2019 - 2022 and 2018 - 2020): a Python wrapper for Replit's forum API and a Discord bridge for it.
  • SnooSlash and DreamSMP Tracker (both 2020): a Reddit TTS video generator and a tracker for when Dream SMP members stream.

Treat these as historical: the descriptions are still useful for understanding what was built, but there is no indication they are updated.

How to use the list

The Projects section is organized as a flat list with names, date ranges, and one-line descriptions—no categories or filters. To find something relevant, scan for the domain you care about (Minecraft, search, Discord, Replit) and check the end date. "now" means the project is described as ongoing; a closed range means it has stopped. The site also has Links, Contact, Buttons, and Blog sections, so project write-ups and updates may appear on the blog rather than in the list itself.