Entries with the tag “archived-projects”

It’s really tough being a famous person.

Or that’s what I’ve heard.

Do you need a non-famous friend? Someone to help you escape from this crazy world who doesn’t care about your circumstances?

Maybe I can help…

I thought it would be funny to joke about a nickname I have had before “Angry Aaron” - so I made a website. It was AngryAaron.com. Basically, you tapped the angry emoji and it was my voice saying ‘no’ or ‘grrr’ increasingly louder and more angry, repeatedly.

That’s it.

But, on my phone, the first tap never started the yelling. It was always the second one (even though the web seemed to work fine). I hated this because it felt like the site was broken.

Now, there probably are better ways to fix this - but I went with a unique way that solves the problem and gives me a UX bonus.

In 2022, I was rebelling against the really clever CTO sites and personal branding.

You don’t want your CTO to be so fancy - you just want the facts. So I created a quick landing page “resume” if you will.

Back in 2020, I built a free online tool that would convert your React component into a .NET component. No install required.

Now with AI, I don’t think we really need it. You’ll find it here for posterity.

A couple years ago I was working with a group of great hearted well meaning people who just didn’t know anything about tech. So I decided to create a website where I explained terms to them - but in my typical manner. That was explain.wtf.

Let’s say you have a domain you’re not going to use anymore that has to do with web development. What should you do with it? Obviously write some JS to redirect that domain to a random GitHub user’s profile, right? Let me show you how.

A friend of mine created a bingo caller at letsplaybingo.io which I found pretty interesting. She got lots of traffic and a lot of appreciative people. This inspired me to make a simple game website to keep my skills up to date. Maybe people would love it, too! (spoiler alert: they didn’t)

So, if you know me personally, you know I’m a bit profane. I tend to keep this out of my professional work. But, I noticed that this pattern of speaking was common among a core group of my previous clients: those who have a project spiraling out of control. So, I decided to brand “Fix My Fucking Project” to their needs.

This is a tech and business blog, so I normally don’t get too deep or emotional. But, I’ve got to talk a bit about my dream and what I’ve learned.

QuickPic.dev was a site for quick edits, crops and touch-ups in your browser. After a year of stagnation, I think its time to move on - and share what I’ve learned.

Before I begin a security audit, I try to make sure that the client owns their website. Normally, this is pretty easy and obvious. However, sometimes it takes a little bit more work. That’s why I had thought of launching the tool called Possessor.

Goal: Clever named site that shows local establishments close to your location. Was based on Google Ip location services. The thought was just for people to think ‘whats close to me’ and type that up.

Goal: to create a bachelor cookbook and sell it to other bachelors online. The price of the cookbook was to be very cheap so that it wasn’t too much of a risk. The book itself was supposed to be picture rich and very verbose. It showed how to accomplish tasks that other books assumed a person knew.

Goal: I came up with an idea that I wanted to find local people in our area and mention them using a twitter bot. Pretty simple.

JEMDiary was one of my longest running websites, from way early in the century.

Goal: to create a site serving females that felt a specific male in their life deserved positive recognition. Then, to monetize the recipient from one of two targeted ads.

The goal was to use links that Amazon provided themselves to showcase categories and percentage discounts with my affiliate tag. The thought was a clean interface would easily encourage people to click a discount of say 90% but send affiliate contributions my way.

The goal was to make a “hello my name is” style name tag without the use of images but with a handwritten font.