Personal Website

This site was created to give me a platform to showcase the work I have done, but ended up as more as a project itself.

Written in Typescript, and built up using React. The site ended up being a great way to play around with new libraries and expore new ideas. Such as the animation using Framer Motion, or the material design based on mui.

The site makes use of Netlify to build straight from GitHub, and utilises Netlify's form capture feature, allowing for a completely serverless site.

I have greatly enjoyed working with these new technologies, and will continue to add the site as I learn.

Twitter Sentiment Analysis

This was a Java based desktop application, developed as part of my university dissertation. It's goal was to analyse a tweet, before being tweeted, and predict the sentiment response that they would receive.

The idea behind this was that Tweets can have a broad impact on businesses in our current society, such as affecting political results, stock prices, public opinion, and so on. Such a tool would aid in mitigating accidental poor publicity.

It achieved this by identifying the key words of the tweet, and then weighting each of them by analysing other tweets that are related to those terms. This would be summed to produce an overall score that the tweet may receive.

In practise this was not always practical, as divided opinions online meant that it was hard to properly weight some topics, to gauge a proper respone. Such as anything relating to politics.

This project involved using several different techniques and associating libraries. Such as Neural Networking libraries, H2 Databasing, Java Threading, and using the Twitter API.

Enyo Shop & Website

Enyo was a company that designed and manufactured unique premium esports performance apparel and merchandise for esports teams, streamers and individuals.

The project entailed creating and maintaining a Shopify shop, in addition to a brand website.

The shop side utilised the Shopify store front platform, using Liquid and CSS to create a branded store page. This was my first foray into Shopify and Liquid as a template language, so presented a lot of new experiences. While the language is fairly simple, it

While the language is fairly simple, it is very reminicent of PHP due to the server side rendering. This was not dynamic enough for my liking, and made dynamic styling fairly difficult and obtuse.

The brand website was written in Typescript using the React framework. This was far easier to work with than the store front, though posed a challenge when the two had to flow.

The brand site was hosted on AWS, making use of several services, notably, Amplify, S3, and Route 53, in addition to a couple Lambda functions. This was very interesting to venture into, as I had only had brief exposure to AWS. Amplify provided a very easy CI/CD workflow which I was a fan of. While Route 53 allowed for complex domain/email routing rules, though felt like slight overkill for the simple use case.