PORTFOLIO_WEBSITE_v2.0

This is my personal portfolio website that I use to track my projects and to teach myself HTML and CSS. I mess with various ideas on here and update it frequently. You're looking at it now!

It uses a stark, blueprint-esque aesthetic using an off-white background to emulate paper, semi-inspired by the old web revival movement, with random elements of things that I am passionate about featured in sections (see the CIS display below). This personal portfolio is built entirely with semantic HTML and CSS, and deployed using cloudflare pages. It avoids client-side JavaScript to ensure immediate load times and backwards compatibility, and to provide a challenge to myself when developing and writing it.

An open-source interactive mapping project designed to visualise the historical shifts in the United Kingdom's railway network. Utilising React and deck.gl, the map features a timeline scroller allowing users to view the exact state of the infrastructure at specific points in time.

Currently focusing on the Lancashire region, including detailed archival data for closed regional branch lines such as the Glasson Dock branch. The architecture leverages OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia data to increase the quality and precision of available historical railway maps.

The backend for this project required me to write scripts to deal with messy data from Overpass Turbo and consolidate it into large .json files, which then required manual review to add names and opening and closure dates for every station and line present on the map. It took a while, but the result is undeniable. Compared to that, the frontend was relatively easy. Being an individual working on this though - it did take a while!

Very much a work in progress, it requires a lot of manually processing data.

A future physical hardware monitor running a custom Linux environment configured to fetch live train movements from the network. It pings the Realtime Trains API for trains passing a specific geographic coordinate on the British rail network and outputs those exact details directly to a dedicated screen.

The logic handles edge-cases in data fetching via Python, utilising cron scheduling and bash scripts to keep the continuous display running autonomously on lightweight breadboard hardware.

Waiting for hardware prices to stabilise before I purchase the necessary compute for this one.

My homelab serves as a personal storage space and home network manager using Nextcloud for files, Immich for my photos, and Pi-hole for DNS and ad-blocking.

It is a legacy Dell Optiplex running a Proxmox hypervisor, an Ubuntu VM manages containerised Docker applications and a Samba file storage system to safely back up heavy university computer science coursework and important documents.

I use Portainer and Uptime Kuma together with Nfty notifications to maintain uptime and to stay informed when things start going wrong