After a long and storied relationship with create-react-app, I decided it was time to learn a new meta-framework, Next.js. In addition, it was a chance to use a frontend component library—I'd always styled my projects from scratch. As a result, the project got off the ground quickly. I hope it's to your liking!

With Buddies, you can keep track of who you have and haven't talked to, jot down notes about a person keyed to important events, and configure reminders to reach out and reconnect.

After perusing the available offerings for no-code, plug and play photography portfolios, I decided that I wanted to be able to build my own minimal portfolio that uses S3 and progressive upsampling to provide a clean and performant user experience.

This project came out of a discussion with my housemates about who is, in fact, the faster typist. When I tried to demonstrate that I was, without question, the slowest, I actually ended up with a far lower score than I expected. What I found, using a few different online measurement tools, is that one-step errors had the ability to throw off all the typing that followed. My MacBook Pro is one of the lucky many laptops to suffer from the "double tap" issue with a few of the keys ("h" and "i" especially). This means that when I get two "h"s instead of one, my words-per-minute (WPM) score will tank. This didn't feel fair. To address this perceived shortcoming of other online WPM measurement tools, I built my own! It factors errors into the score with greater nuance and prevents an error from propagating between words (unless the user forgets to hit the spacebar, which unfortunately still has too much power).