Alex Hedley

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Statiq - Plugins - Image Gallery

Building Statiq plugins

It's been a little while since I've added any new features to my Static.Plugins library, the last was a Reading Time option to see how long an article might take to get through.

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VB Form Builder

In a past life I was a balsamiq user. I loved a quick way to mockup a design with a set of common controls. There are many other tools you can do this with.

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Fast Food Order System

For some strange reason I've wanted to create my own_ Fast Food Order System_, I've always liked how the the terminal looked for the staff, although I never worked in one to raise some beer money.

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.NET by Example - Samples

Last year I build .NET by Example with nocco and upgraded it to .NET 10 in February.

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Maya

I'd first come across Maya in Nov 2023 and added it as a discussion on Cistercian Numerals/ #1 to work on later. As with most of these projects I forgot about it. It wasn't until I was looking back through them all and though I know something that can help.

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Nyctography

To continue my journey of numerals and alphabets like Kaktovik Numerals and Cistercian Numerals I kept a note of others to work on later, I've finally gotten round to producing a site for this too.

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Statiq - Themes - terminal-css

Building Statiq themes with Copilot

Ever since coming across the terminal-css theme I've needed a use for it, once of which could be this blog, which uses Statiq so I'd need to create a theme for it.

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Johari / Nohari Window

During a workshop I was asked to use create a Johari Window, so of course I wanted to build an app for it. I started this back in May 2023 and it's sat on the back burner for a few years.

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Kaktovik Numerals Equations

In a previous post about Kaktovik Numerals/KN SVG I started a site to show the numbers in this system.

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VBA Object Browser

A number of years ago I found a UI lib called 98.css with the tag line "A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs." I've been wanting a reason to use this in some app and thought this might be a good use case.

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