Technical Side Projects
jessica.im
2021-Present
Work in progress
The site you are viewing right now.
SpotNetCore
2021-Present
Work in progress
Open source
I started SpotNetCore, a CLI-based Spotify controller, in 2021.
The project was initialy designed to help me get used to OAuth 2 authentication flows, but quickly grew to become my main side-project for around three months
It was initially written with .NET Core 3.1, however, I upgraded it to .NET 5 to utilise the anonymous JSON parsing features.
21Shirts.com
2021-Present
Work in progress
In 2021, my partner, my brother and I formed a Bitcoin merchandise startup.
Initially the idea was to sell custom T-Shirts with the customer's bitcoin address printed as a QR Code. However, the idea moved more towards general Bitcoin merchandise.
Road Racing Circuits
2018-Present
Work in progress
Since 2018, my brother and I have been developing a dynamic hub for Road Racing in the UK.
This contains information about national road races, a calendar showing events, a map showing popular viewing spots, and a news section.
Herald IOM
2020
In 2020, my brother and I developed a brochureware website for Herald IOM.
Random Album Generator
November 2019
In November 2019, I created a service to return a random album from my Last.fm list of albums.
This was written in Golang for my old blog. I am yet to port it to .NET.
Caveman Survival
2014
In 2014, as part of a Junior Achievement competition a team consisting of myself and 4 other students started a mock game development business.
Badger Hop
Summer 2015
In summer 2015, I completed an internship for a Bitcoin solution provider in the Isle of Man.
My main task was to create a web game for marketing purposes.