Philip Rowlands / Aceade

I'm an ex-software engineer turned game developer and scifi/fantasy writer. Up until 2021, most of what I did was full-stack Java work; from 2021 until I was laid off from Avaya in August 2023, I did full-stack JavaScript development.

A black-and-white selfie of a man in a fleece and sun hat, framed against the sea

Web development examples

Sydfjords

Inspired by a fictional world I am working on. Porting the Vue app below to another framework is my go-to practice project for that framework.

Link to the Sydfjords page (Vue version). Opens in a new tab

Sydfjord Tourism (Vue)

Practicing responsive web design with a mock tourism site.
Link to the Sydfjords page (React version). Opens in a new tab

Sydfjord Tourism (React)

Porting the Sydfjords repo to React.
Link to the Sydfjords page (Angular version). Opens in a new tab

Sydfjord Tourism (Angular)

Porting the Sydfjords repo to Angular.
Link to the Colwdvatn and Kerbalstead Rails page. Opens in a new tab

Colwdvatn & Kerbalstead Rails

The main railway line for this fictional setting.

Other web development projects

Link to a scifi series page. Opens in a new tab

Connacht Disaster Zone (Vue)

An alternative site for my main scifi series, made to teach myself Vue.
Link to a repo for a NodeJS test app. Opens in a new tab

Express Echo

A Node/Express test app that echoes REST calls back to the sender.
Link to the express-chat-backend repo. Opens in a new tab

Express Chat Backend

A NodeJS/Express chat backend with socket.io. Was hosted on Azure, has since been taken down.
Link to the express-chat-client repo. Opens in a new tab

Express Chat Client

A React client for testing the Express Chat Backend. No longer deployed.

Other projects

Link to a Unity game. Opens in a new tab. Not for mobile

Fiptubat (desktop only)

A turn-based tactics game made in Unity/C# with a first-person perspective.
Link to a repo for an upload automation script. Opens in a new tab

pyshotcutupload

A Python utility I wrote for uploading Shotcut project files to a different machine for rendering.

Where else to find me

Link to my GitHub profile. Opens in a new tab

GitHub
Link to my LinkedIn profile. Opens in a new tab

LinkedIn
Link to my main site and writing blog. Opens in a new tab

My main site
Link to my Mastodon account. Opens in a new tab

Mastodon