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James Barnes at a fair, in sunglasses and a brown cap, smiling off to the left, in front of a wall of carnival prizes.

I’m James Barnes. I make software that brings order to messes: hairy archives, a publisher’s whole catalog, a magazine’s back issues.

Some recent projects I’m fond of include Deadsound, an app for finding shows and tapes in the Grateful Dead’s live archive; Still Alive, a magazine about people you may be surprised to learn are still alive; and Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard (opens in a new tab), an iPhone radio station for the music journal Aquarium Drunkard.

I take on a few projects a year, mostly websites and apps, plus the odd unclassifiable thing. Get in touch.