Craft
The twenty-minute deploy
A rule of thumb: if publishing a change takes longer than a short walk, the pipeline is the project.
September 28, 2026 · 5 min read
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Mini projects, notes and photographs.Updated October 2026
Featured
Why I build small things
Every project on this site took a weekend or two. That isn't a limitation — it's the whole argument.
Making · 6 min read
Latest writing
Notes from the desk
Short essays on making small things, and the habits that keep them small.
Making
Notes on naming things
Six months in, the name is either doing work for you or quietly costing you users.
September 9, 2026 · 4 min read
Photography
Shooting film in the city
Thirty-six frames changes what you're willing to stand still for. A note on the discipline of a finite roll.
August 21, 2026 · 7 min read
Selected builds
The project shelf
Six small tools. Each one solved an annoyance I actually had.
Trailhead
A trail log that fits in one window: route, weather, and what you actually noticed.
ReactSQLiteMapLibre
Palette-rator
Start from one colour, get a full accessible palette back — including the ones you'd never pick.
TypeScriptColour mathsCLI
From the camera roll
Recently, outside
Mostly film, mostly the weekends between the builds.
About the shelf
I build small things, write about why, and photograph the weekends in between.
Everything here is mine and unfinished in some way — a working notebook rather than a portfolio. If something looks useful, the code and the thinking are both attached.