Projects on James Montgomery

Station Finder

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Status

Station Finder is a single page application hosted on Cloudflare using Pages, Workers and Workers KV to function. The premise is to find information about available fuel stations.

It will return a list of stations based on postcode.

A station selection will result in the retrieval of:

Summary text;
Points of interest;
Location co-ordinates;
Up to three images with optional description text;

Client-side JavaScript reconfigures the page elements based on this information. For example, a Google Maps link is visible if location coordinates are available.

Elite Dangerous Timeline

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Motivation

The project started as a desire to providing me with some context as an Elite Dangerous player. The in-game experience does not give you context/history for a player you have encountered before. Many of these interactions log to the game journal - a source which I’ve used to create an event-driven text to speech implementation using Google Cloud text to speech.

Todoist ordering

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Status

Every hour my Todoist labels are automatically sorted. Every four hours, I sort some projects according to my preference. Here is a video example of each:

Elite Dangerous Text-to-speech

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Status

Successfully converts all player and NPC text chat into synthetic speech (via Google Cloud Text-to-speech). Optionally player text language is detected as non-English. In this case, it translates into English text before it then converts into synthetic speech. In-game events can drive other speech outcomes. For example, a bounty kill triggers a Chuck Norris API joke retrieval and plays the resulting joke as speech.

This site

Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Motivation

A Hugo based site has allowed me to use the site itself as a vehicle to learn Markdown and experience several hosting scenarios with Google, AWS and so on.

Site hosting

Cloudflare pages hosts this site.

Site configuration

First of all, a big shout to the authors behind the theme I’ve based the site on - the Future Imperfect theme. I’ve tweaked it to my taste in the following ways:

Projects on James Montgomery

Station Finder

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Elite Dangerous Timeline

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Todoist ordering

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Elite Dangerous Text-to-speech

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This site

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