Philip Rowlands / Aceade

I'm a software engineer and scifi/fantasy writer. Up until 2021, most of what I did was full-stack Java work; since then, I've been working on JavaScript full-stack. I am considering moving into frontend development and specialising in accessibility.

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.
Link to a repo for a machine learning project. Opens in a new tab

Tacpath ML

Teaching myself some basic machine learning with ml5 using the data from my Master's thesis.

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