Projects

2025

JamesReviewsMusic

A personal music blog where I write reviews and track scores.

• Designed and built a full-stack web application for creating and managing personal album reviews.
• Developed a RESTful backend API with Hono.js and PostgreSQL, using Drizzle ORM for type-safe database access.
• Implemented a modern frontend with React and Vite, and added automated backend testing with Jest to validate core application logic.
• Containerised the application using Docker Compose and configured a Jenkins pipeline to automate deployments.

Built with React, TypeScript, Hono.js, PostgreSQL and Docker

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2026

Phantom

A mock API server and traffic inspector built on raw TCP sockets.

• Built a low-level HTTP/1.1 mock server from scratch using raw Node.js TCP sockets instead of high-level frameworks.
• Developed a custom HTTP parser to handle manual byte-stream processing, including support for chunked transfer encoding and binary data.
• Created a real-time monitoring dashboard using Svelte and WebSockets to inspect live request/response cycles and manage server state.
• Implemented a "Chaos Engine" for testing frontend resilience through programmatic latency injection and configurable failure rates.

Built with Svelte, TypeScript and Node.js

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SandSim

Falling sand simulation with a number of different materials and interactions between them.

Built with Rust, TypeScript, React and WebAssembly

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Issues

An issue tracker for my personal projects, with its own MCP server.

Built with Svelte, CSS, Hono.js and TypeScript

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Vintage Recreations

Old tickets, forms and fliers rebuilt with nothing but HTML and CSS.

Built with HTML and CSS

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