Things I created to solve my problems.
People forget what acronyms and abbreviations mean. They then need to ask a colleague or pray that it shows up in email archives.
I wanted to build a lightweight search app for abbreviations. There were already a few JS side projects by individual civil servants, but I wanted to make a faster one with Go.
How might we speed up ranking sessions, which need manual selection to form a numbered list "1, 2, 3..." on Excel. Every change to the list required manual reordering.
Speed up ranking sessions via drag & drop.
Haven't added authentication, which is probably needed for a private thing like ranking.
How might I help my non-technical teammates access to vast repositories of free-to-access knowledge to gain tech-related competencies?
Display lists of tech resources from Youtube, blogs, tutorials, courses, sorted by tech competency.
Making learning plans the front and center to learning, so all the suggested resources revolve around a learning plan once committed.
Wordpress got too bulky and tiresome to manage and host.
I moved BTOnomics to a more modern framework and tried AstroJS, which had been gaining a lot of praise.
Haven't recreated all the old functionalities from plugins, especially comments, but I figured I didn't need it anyway.
How might I stop getting tricked into paying for subscriptions I don't want.
Subscription tracker that alerts me about known dark patterns and companies' dirty tricks.
Probably OCR or natural language processing for greater automation.
I'm reinventing the wheel to learn building a bulletin board with Go, writing SQL, vanilla JS. I also wanted to try using authentication SaaS and implementing magic link logins.
The usual posting, commenting, upvoting, anonymous mode, tagging, user management.
Probably QOL stuff like markdown formatting, polls, admin moderation.
Projects of the past that I don't work on now.
There was barely any info online to guide me through the renovation journey (choosing an ID/contractor, deciding on a design, buying from Taobao).
Started BTOnomics as pewpewpew.cc in 2018, which was a blog that documented my journey and my advice to other people in similar shoes.
Wordpress got too bulky and tiresome to manage and host. Not least the sprawling repository of images (not least the multiple resized copies of every image). I'm still keeping this Wordpress instance out of nostalgia.
How might I make it easier and shorter to plan medicine dose timings and get accurate info.
Make it less tedious for both of us parents to record/coord medicine stuff and sync with one another.
Honestly, ChatGPT does it better (Gemini refuses, so no luck there).
Rank-a-Mate was my first stab at making a drag & drop tool for ranking sessions in lieu of Excel.
Speed up ranking sessions via drag & drop.