Web pages/apps

• Redesigning my browser homepage
• A searchable dashboard for a CSV report of third-party software acquisition requests (guest:guest)
• A web-based dashboard visualization of my Obsidian notes network
• A “weather dashboard” page
• A Pierre Pollievre Slogan Generator for the 2025 campaign
• A better Obsidian notes network visualizer
• A tool for reviewing Badges issued by badges.ucalgary.ca
• A tool for counting pages listed in a website’s sitemap.xml file
• An embeddable Asteroids animation
• A not-quite-working web page for sonifying the structure of any URL
• A playable version of Asteroids: AIsteroids
• A simple web tool to convert HTML to Markdown syntax
• A simple web tool to convert fuel economy from L/100km to mpg
• A timesheet tracking and reporting app for Janice to use.
• A graphr web app for creating and sharing node/connection diagrams
• Standalone Comments - a self-contained comment management tool for use with static websites. It’s integrated with my Hugo website.
• A mockup of a “Reflection Cards” web application to explore the idea of using something that as part of our 2026 UCalgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning & Teaching

Hugo

• A “blogroll” that uses my NetNewsWire subscriptions .opml file
• A custom Hugo theme based on 1980s-era terminal displays
• a page that lists all external links mentioned in the last 100 posts
• Another theme with a more “typeset” look (which also has light, dark, “terminal”, and “hypercard” themes)
• A shell script that uses pandoc to convert legacy .html content files (from process of exporting from WordPress) into .md files
• Hugo Manager - a macOS application for managing and publishing Hugo websites
• Hugo Lightweight Search - a new API-driven search engine that runs on the server and is blazingly fast and scalable
• A python script to visualize content posting over time (see example, using Google Antigravity)

Obsidian

• A plugin for Obsidian to better work with meeting agendas
• Attempted to build a custom LLM tool to find connections between notes
• Content template for “Daily Note” that includes a dataview to list all notes created or modified on that day.
• A “Today” view that shows notes created/edited today, as well as Tasks from those notes.
• A Folders dataviewjs index of all [[zettelkasten]] numbered folders. (deleted because the Numbered Folders Index plugin is much better)
• A plugin to build an index of all numbered folders with links to their folder-notes at Numbered Folders Index.
• Added custom CSS to enable select notes to be displayed full-width
• A python script to automatically create Obsidian notes for items starred in NetNewsWire
• Obsidian Related Notes plugin - uses an LLM running locally in Ollama to index all notes and display a sidebar of related notes based on vector similarity.

Applications

• PhotoBlogger - A macOS application for photoblogging with Hugo
• Claude Code Log Viewer - for parsing, displaying, and exporting markdown of Claude Code project conversation histories.
• Hugo Manager - a macOS application for managing and publishing Hugo websites

Information / Analysis

• NotebookLM summarizes my dissertation - D’Arcy Norman, PhD
• Pulling together information about several campus platforms to help onboard a new team member
• Converting my markdown CV into a LaTeX-formatted resume
• Providing a super-high-level summary of a book that I had no interest in actually reading
• Writing and revising HR-related documents - this has been a huge time-saver, given the typical week-or-two delay for feedback on these kinds of documents
• Visualizing a .csv export of a Teams list of projects in “Stuff ’n Thingz”
• A python script to analyze apache webserver logs to determine the proportion of human vs. bot traffic
• A TL;DR summary of my dissertation (using Claude 4 Opus)
• An Excel lookup formula to match course codes (like “HIST”) with faculty names (like “Arts”) that are mapped out in another sheet to build a chart for TI Unit Review on Registrar’s Office data on courses scheduled in the TI from 2018-2025.
• A “classroom analytics dashboard” - using Claude Code to build an interactive visualization of the TI 2018-2025 classroom scheduling data.

Misc other stuff

• Designing an optimal AI communication language (haven’t tested this, but it looks potentially useful)
• Transcribing handwritten notes and whiteboards into Markdown for use in Obsidian (using the iPhone app)
• Pulling together some arguments for/against the ITIL “business vs. service” separation to help think that through
• Acting as an “executive coach” to help me think through various topics without just “solving” them for me
• Developing a plan/agenda for a campus community session on generative AI use and needs/infrastructure
• Refining/editing my resume and cover letter
• Summarizing and identifying key items to review a tenure-and-promotion package
• Got 100% on a quiz in a Brightspace course (using Perplexity’s Comet browser)