No longer online whilst I develop Mechspeak.io.
This is my playground on the web, and ongoing quest to develop a some useful tools. I have too many friends working in software development who dedicate their time and effort to using the latest tools and frameworks. I'm convinced that in the longrun this is a bad approach, and learning to do things without prebuilt tools allows you to develop truly novel sites.
The overriding design philosophies are:
- Everything is made exactly how I want it; no concessions to tools, time, or effort ⭐
- Prioritise using tools or approaches that increase my options, not restrict them; if no suitable tool exists, I'll build what I need from scratch 👷
- Every feature of the site must have real value; ignore technical curiosities 🍃
Find the website here
- Site designed in Figma (icons and svgs made using inkscape) 🎉
- Static site built using only JS, CSS and HTML 🎉
- Custom Python site builder added to speed up my workflows 🎉
- Add lesson booking feature 🎉
- Interactive, real-time character recognition demo ✍🏻
- Ultra-concise, tunable news aggregator 📰
- Extend character recognition demo to sketches of 3D objects ✍🏻