Archiving the good internet

I'm constantly looking at multiple sites for references, I was collecting them using an old Mac App called Ember. It's great at what it did but was no longer under development.

Building an are.na firefox extension

I use are.na daily for bookmarking and discovery of things that i wouldn't find anywhere else. Navigating to my individual channels to grab a reference currently involves navigating to are.na to search or browse the index of my profile. I wanted a direct route.

Attempting to build an app

Found Around is an app to guide people to learn about their local flora and fauna (animals and plants), by giving them Collections based on geographic locations. For each animal or plant, a series of Tips are given to help you identify, then a photo is saved into the app to mark it as found.

Creating tools for are.na

> Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.

Emailing the cheapest fuel in your area

Fuel Check notifier was an idea for a project to try out some of the AI coding tools that were available at the time. It's a straightforward Vue single page app with Supabase used for storage and authentication. This was also my first time using Amazon Simple Email Service.

Over-engineering a toilet door

At a previous workplace we had one downstairs toilet. I noticed that staff would often walk to the toilet only to be disappointed that it was occupied.

Playing lottie json in the browser

Finding somewhere to quickly test your lottie JSON export from AE was weirdly difficult. So I made this little tool.

Remixing Wikihow

Takes a random wikihow article title and another random wikihow article image and puts them together. This was my first project trying out Github Copilot and for a part-time developer like me, it's super handy.

Rewriting this website's codebase

This website, like many other designer's/developer's website, is a test bed for ideas and experimentation. It has been plaintext, HTML and CSS only, Wordpress, DatoCMS backend, Airtable backend, Middleman built in the past which have all had their pros and cons.

Scraping the internet for relevant domains

[Relevant Domains ↗](http://relevant.domains "Relevant Domains") scrapes the last year or so of Urban Dictionary words and definitions, turns them into dot coms, checks those against the Domainr API for availability and churns out a static website to flick through them all.

Recycling IKEA furniture for an arcade table

After the release of the mini NES and SNES I looked into the RetroPie OS for Raspberry Pi. A visit to eBay and a few more to Bunnings later I built a two-player top-down Arcade Table.

Tabling colour tokens in Figma

I had a fairly specific manual task that involved documenting some design tokens that i created into a table for a design system. It was tedious and even though there were some plugins that would get me half way there, i still had to do a lot of manual work.

Using machine learning to undo my whoopsy

Wouldn't it be handy if your computer could sense when you made a mistake?