Making Things

World map in a honeycomb pattern of circles

Places I’ve been

So many places still to go!

This map took surprisingly many hours to create and involved a huge array in Python, but it was a nice and relaxing task 😌

A study of rainbows

With it being Pride Month and all, I’ve been playing around a little bit with CSS to create a rainbow hover state for my site logo.

Here’s a static version of the active state, for those on mobile:

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And here is the dynamic version in all its glory:

I quite like the effect 🙂

Oh, and here is a rainbow flag that was left over from the process:

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I made some signal flag icons

As a little evening project yesterday, I created a set of signal flags as icons, using CSS and SVG.

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Character counter tool

Here’s a little hand-cranked tool for counting the number of characters of a text. I’ve created it for when posting microblog posts here on the blog, as those can only be 240 characters long.

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