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
Historical Photos - a standalone webthing inspired by Alan’s chrome extension, but as a web page that can work in any browser.
CBT Worksheets
Flocker - a basic particle flocking animation that makes a good ambient display
Image Resizer - automatically resize any image by URL, cache the result. (and integrated into my Hugo theme)
LLM Simulator - intended for my dashboard display thing, to show kinda what an LLM is doing (and figuring the Westworld clip of Maeve’s dialogue tree is pretty NSFW, so…)
word-to-markdown converter - convert complex formatting from Word into Markdown for use in Obsidian
randomizer - takes a list of items (one per line) and generates a randomized list
ditherer - takes an image (URL or file) and applies Atkinson 1-bit dithering
Values Identifier - a tool built for our team retreat, to facilitate a reflective activity
a silly canvas-based vector animation doodad that was then integrated with my custom Hugo theme just because I thought it was funny.
a collaborative “paint by numbers” thing, where everyone viewing the page is colouring together.
a self-hosted, lightweight project management application (PHP and SQLite, no Node.js or Rails or other nonsense)
Forgotten Archive - a zork-like game completely designed and built by Claude Code with a single prompt.
Crema - a self-hosted CRM application without the business/sales/transaction focus of bigger CRM tools.
A mockup of an RSS interface
A mockup of a resizable and interactive Land Acknowledgement Widget for use in Brightspace.
Course Community - a non-LMS platform to use in courses, providing a suite of tools to foster community and collaboration within the course. Works as a standalone application and can integrate with an LMS such as Brightspace through LTI.
CSS Colour Themer - a tool to create palettes of CSS variables given an image (or multiple images).

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.
Topics - a streamlined interface for finding my Topics notes and anything they’re related to
People - a streamlined interface for finding my Person notes and anything they’re related to

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
Brightspace Course Coach - a macOS application that uses the Brightspace API and Ollama local LLM to provide a socratic coach chatbot interface for students to engage with their course materials.
logger - a Python script to process apache log files, generating visualizations about traffic, with a focus on “how much of this is just botslop?”
chrome-intelligence - a Chrome extension to make it easier to use Apple Intelligence’s Writing Tools when editing text.

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)
Generating a “report” with examples of successful Digital Transformation initiatives (it produced a decent overview with 14 case studies of companies, governments, and universities that have engaged in Dx)