Snapfont
I made Snapfont sometime in late 2019 primarily to scratch my own itch. I always wanted to test fonts by replacing them on an actual website. After I developed the extension, I thought I should release it to the world. And thus, Snapfont was born.
This project is under active development. Since its official launch in Feb 2020, it has been featured by various typography and web design blogs including Css-tricks, Codrops, etc.
Reddit wallpapers
This project was made as a technical demo initially to test Nuxtjs + keystonejs and see how much can I automate. Currently, it sifts through hundreds of wallpapers daily and has the ability to filter through 30k wallpapers at the time of this writing.
From checking for 404s to updating metadata, everything is 100% automated. Best of all, it runs on the smallest nodejs instance I've ever provisioned.
#braggingrights #scale #automation
Victoria’s Big Build
hockingstuart
I worked on the latest redesign of hockingstuart while at Sense advertising. This was the biggest project I had been handed up to this date.
For this project, each page is broken up into blocks instead of a single template. That means more control over the content. New pages can be cooked up by simply mixing and matching content blocks.
With a project of this size came some massive challenges:
- Managing content blocks. There are over 20+ content blocks and they are meant to work together
- Developing the animations for every content block.
- Reducing pageload and optimizing image content delivery
- Developing a completely separate look and feel for mobile and tablet devices.
There were setbacks and delays but in the end, we managed to pull off an incredible redesign for hockingstuart.
MAB Corporate
MAB Corporate was created while I was contracting at Sense Advertising. After having working on hockingstuart and another smaller project, I had a good idea of what bottlenecks the management was facing.
For this project, a lot of resources were spent on making the Wordpress backend more user friendly and reducing the pageload.
To do this:
- Customized the tables in the backend to display ACF fields.
- Added a lot of whitelabelling code in the backend
- Added my own css in the backend to make the ACF Content blocks stand out visually as well as other minor cosmetic differences
- In the frontend, removed unnecessary scripts added by Wordpress
- Used img srcset for 90% of the images throughout the website. This means that only smaller sized image are downloaded by mobile users thus reducing pageload and bandwidth for them.
- Refined build process. Removed Bootstrap's unnecessary styles and removed unused dependencies(Bootstrap's dependencies, used newer version of jQuery, etc)
This lead to an incredibly snappy and easy to maintain website.
MCC Kew
MCC Kew was made while I was contracting at MMR Studio. I fondly remember skateboarding during lunch hours outside the Studio while Bachelors(Or some Australian TV show) was being shot across the street.
This was at that time one of the biggest project I've worked on. Built on Wordpress using ACF and Gravity forms.
Colorbook
I made this back when I was in a diploma course in India. Back then, managing color palettes was a pain as well as designing one. And there weren't any decent apps to create a colorpalette in. So I made Colorbook.
Version 1 was released back in 2012. Not satisfied with the design, I refined it and put it up on Redhat hosting(Now on heroku) a year later.
There are many good color palettes webapps right now and colorbook is a bit dated but this tool has served me well over the years.