The most interesting tech I've build for myself is boring: a writing tool I use every day for journaling: https://enso.sonnet.io
With that out of the way here's some more ridiculous stuff:
In 2016, I made a browser based AR party game where you'd fight kittens falling from the sky by dancing with vegetables in your hands (CMYK was easier to track using the webcam). I have some photos here: https://goo.gl/photos/g6Dp8GLDbuuhT1TRA
From a technical PoV it was exciting (running AR, in a browser, in pre Pokemon GO, pre WASM times!)
I also made a simple photography lighting tool, replacing professional lights with computer/tablet/phone screens (facade.photo). I put it in an old wardrobe bought in a thrift store on Brick Lane and during my startup launch. Results: https://goo.gl/photos/RZ3fCRcScYSGr7aG6
Ah, I also made an AI-powered voice assistant in 2014. The tagline was HTML5-powered voice assistant, as AI wasn't really _the_ buzzword then, but _HTML5_... oh yeah.
Ha. I made The Most Dangerous Writing App for that very purpose (sold it a few years ago after it became an unlikely success), I love finding other peoples home made writing tools! Thanks for sharing Enso!
Haha, a few years ago I created a Chrome extension called "Writer's Block" that would delete everything in the textarea if the user pressed backspace/delete. I used it a lot myself for a while and it got me into the habit of writing without premature editing. I never got around to actually releasing it.
Thank you so much for making it, when I started getting into the habit of digital journal, it had helped me a lot to not fix grammar and to not cringe at the things I've just written down.
Both Enso and Sit are really nicely done. I think it would be interesting to add a wordcount "goal" with Enso - set it before you begin and have it notify you when you reach the wordcount for that day. Maybe even re-use the chime from Sit, heck maybe even say ok you reached your writing goal (either time or word count) time to "sit" for a few minutes and then back to it.
Next.js for the product page and regular react for the app. My personal website was built using eleventy. I enjoy writing plain html and css but I try to be pragmatic when things get a bit complex.
>Ensō works perfectly fine even without internet connecton.
hah, editing to say that I really liked it. I'm stress a lot about how I phrase things and am very conscious about how concise am I when when I'm writing for an audience.
> hah, editing to say that I really liked it. I'm stress a lot about how I phrase things and am very conscious about how concise am I when when I'm writing for an audience.
Same here. My fluency has improved quite a bit since I started writing daily, but things get much harder when I have to share my work. I'm trying to be more comfortable with sharing things when they're not perfect. Sit was an exercise in that. I wrote about it here: https://sonnet.io/posts/sit/
With that out of the way here's some more ridiculous stuff:
In 2016, I made a browser based AR party game where you'd fight kittens falling from the sky by dancing with vegetables in your hands (CMYK was easier to track using the webcam). I have some photos here: https://goo.gl/photos/g6Dp8GLDbuuhT1TRA
From a technical PoV it was exciting (running AR, in a browser, in pre Pokemon GO, pre WASM times!)
I also made a simple photography lighting tool, replacing professional lights with computer/tablet/phone screens (facade.photo). I put it in an old wardrobe bought in a thrift store on Brick Lane and during my startup launch. Results: https://goo.gl/photos/RZ3fCRcScYSGr7aG6
Ah, I also made an AI-powered voice assistant in 2014. The tagline was HTML5-powered voice assistant, as AI wasn't really _the_ buzzword then, but _HTML5_... oh yeah.