(Finished) As the name says, it's literally the Hello World of GAE. It even comes in a plain text version! (This will also be trivially customised if you're logged in.)

(Working) Regular run-of-the-mill Guestbook tutorial, right after the Hello World one. Remaining basically untouched since 2012, it's grown quite significantly in the recent revamp (2018) — most notably markdown-esque formatting, and online book-wise configuration — now doubling as container (a private guestbook) of the About Me page quotes shown above .

(Frozen) Built over just a couple days to help make it easier for me as a non-smoker, buying smokes for my smoker partner. Initially built to keep track of the price of the various packets I regularly purchased (which could only be displayed from behind the counter, for reasons), it was then extended to make it easier to select a packet (or combination of packets) to achieve a given price (how many can I get for $40) or packet size (cheapest combination for 50) target. It's here as a reminder of how glad I am that I never took up smoking, and how terrible my site looked before the 2018 redesign — and I intend to try keep it as much as-is as reasonable.

(Evolving) You're looking at it; the welcome mat of my personal web-facing pages. This page tells you a bit about me, but mostly just a space where I throw random things that don't need their own page (if you're me, there's several more panels showing, full of all sorts of random things).

(Finished) A very simple base64 encoder/decoder with a lean towards cloaking links for some overly protective chat services; since friends kept sending me base64 encoded links to bypass the filters, I made this trivially simple page to do the en/de-coding for me (it tries to decode, if that fails, then it encodes) — no other processing of any kind, and definitely not a link shortener. (It also has some minor conveniences the generic Base64 conversion sites don't offer — especially if you have the insider access knowledge.)

(Idle) Job search site scraper to collect new jobs from my favourite job search site(s), try to remove duplicates (and make it easier for me to exclude the rest), and then sort by travel distance — this is how any self-respecting web developer would do it, right?!?

(Work-in-progress) Development and testing of a custom forms framework which I'm hoping will work out pretty well… This is the test page; rendering is complete, but I'm not happy with the validation.

(Idle) Brief foray into receiving email addressed to the site itself (ie. sendspam@ciredderf.….com), and forwarding it to my main mail box with some stringent anti-spam measures. Successful proof-of-concept, so finished with it, for now.

(Evolving) Simple (and not too ugly) plot of my sleep pattern… obviously for internal use only. However, also my first foray into dynamically generated SVG images, presenting my sleep period data as a fairly simple but none the less functional SVG rendered chart. Sleep period data is automatically logged by and pulled from my Home Automation system.

(Broken) Uses the YouTube API to fetch my Favourites list, stores a shuffled index in a cookie, and embeds the next video in a very simple page each time it loads. No auto-play, no order controls, no sorting, no filtering, just a different video each time. Simple and functional. (And yes, it's mostly good old regular pop… comes from the old days with these things called radio's…)

This site hosts a couple backends for various projects; for example, a product sales tracking database for things I never actually got around to selling in the SecondLife Marketplace (I do have a couple very basic things I shoved on the marketplace for cheap, just to let me get some real sales transactions &mdash and have actually made a whole half a cup of coffee worth in sales over the couple years since), but then drifted off the platform so never really made much use of it all. Another that tracks my sleep hours and general daily wellness — also tied into my home automation system. Even a couple utilities I've put together for other people to use.

I run a home-brew local-access-only Python server on my home computer, managing a fairly convoluted schedule of shows, movies, RSS, YouTube, e-books, and other entertainment media. I like binary weighted prioritisation, which mixes several series together, while also prioritising them in first-in first-out order. The scheduler serves a set of webpages allowing me to add the next thing I wish to watch to a list, and mixing it into the sequence, with options to skip a series for a bit, watch an extra episode or an episode out of order, etc., and it keeps track of it all for me, and offers to auto-launch the media via a simple play button where possible.

Running a Home Assistant instance controlling a mixture of consumer IoT devices (lights, power plugs, etc.), its phone app and voice assistant interfaces, a custom control service on my computers (allows me to do things like mute the volume when I go to bed, and lock the computer when I leave the house), and the Desk Clock and LED Strip mentioned in the Hardware projects section. Obviously I have no intentions of exposing any of that to a public accessible page, and it intentionally has no contact with this site — I could use either he bridge I built, or one of it's internal connectivity options, but I can think of nothing that I would want exposed here.

I've been experimented with several frontend and WebApp frameworks, that don't play well with this older site structure (React and Vue have a drop-in mode for progressive implementation for example, but it misses out on a number of features of the full framework, and I've implemented a lot of my own framework infrastructure &mdash based loosely on Django — for this site over the years), and were mostly distinct local instances that were never put online — especially the ones involving external services with limited free tiers, that I experimented with and then discontinued. (I am considering replacing this site with one implemented in React, or one of it's derrivatives.)

Recently (2021) started with some practice applications that were never beautified enough that I'd be happy posting screenshots. I'm far more programmer than artist, and focused on functionality and the language itself (C#) rather than level design or aesthetics. So showing off a screenshot full of either simple coloured shapes, or a bunch of free assets, doesn't really feel like it captures the achievement of the experience.

As noted under Private Servers above, during the late 2010's in particular I spent a lot of time in SecondLife, with a significant portion of that participating in several in-world Linden Scripting Language groups helping other people — my diverse programming background having afforded me a very fast on-ramp to the language in particular; LSL is a fairly simple language loosely based on C, but devilishly quirky in it's limitations and application. One interesting project, is a bridge to my home automation system allowing an in-virtual-world device to both control and reflect the state of real life devices — most notably my room light has a working light switch in the virtual world.