About me
I'm Zac and I like making stuff, community events and the web ๐คนโโ๏ธ๐๐จ.
I'm passionate about removing barriers for people. I'm trying to do this through things like education, accessibility, diversity and inclusion ๐ง๐ซ.
One place I used to do this is through co-organising codebar Monthlies โจ๐ฃ๏ธ. I also started and used to run hackpompey, a Portsmouth based hack event ๐จโ๐ป๐ฉโ๐ป๐ ๏ธ
My day job is currently at Beano Studios ๐ธ๐ฉ where I'm a developer. Before that I worked at Farewill ๐โฐ๏ธ๏ธ and Songkick ๐ค๐ซ. At the University of Portsmouth I started a partnership called ROSE ๐น๐ป๐.
I like making things, some of my projects are on GitHub ๐๐ and some are on Glitch ๐.
I love listening to music ๐ง๐ถ and going to gigs ๐ฉโ๐ค๐ธ๐ฅ. I sometimes watch films ๐๏ธ and own a stack of books I rarely read ๐.
If you want to contact me, emailing works. You can email me at: hi@zaccolley.com ๐ง.
You can find me talking shit on Mastodon at @zac@toot.cafe ๐๐ฏ. I also used to tweet a lot at @zaccolley ๐ฆ.
Some things I've made
Here are some things I've made over the years that are fairly interesting.
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๐โฒ๏ธ Pizza Timer A timer for pair programming
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๐ผ๏ธ๐ Please Caption Bot A accessibility Mastodon bot that reminds you to caption your posts' images and videos
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โซ๐โช accessible colour contrasts A colour combo accessibility Mastodon bot that grabs accessible colours combos from: randoma11y.com
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๐๐๐ GitHub Glitch button Adds a button on public GitHub repos next to clone that let's you import into Glitch with one click
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๐ฟ๐จ orla kiely flowers A p5.js recreation of Orla Keily's art
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๐๐น๐คก shitty goosebumps books bot a shitty goosebumps book randomly generated every so often
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๐ฒโคต๏ธ rotate How to handle websites between landscape and portrait modes on mobile
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๐๐ถ catmode Depeche Mode cat e-card for my Mom mad with my bro
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๐คโช๏ธ Hamiltonian paths bot A bot that generates Hamiltonian path GIFs
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๐ฐ๐ zaccoin The soft launch of my very own cryptocurrency
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๐ softdongs Tool to make your own packer. Made at Sex Tech Hack 2 with Cam, Kara and Guy.
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๐ฎ food flood A small food colour filling game
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๐ค๐ฃ๏ธ Amazon Alexa #WebVR Simulatorโข๏ธ Simulates what it's truly like to own a Amazon Alexa product.
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๐ค๐งฆ sockbot A bot that spits out socks every hour.
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๐ฉโ๐จ๐จ๐ผ๏ธ๐จโ๐จ clicky-line-drawer Wiggly line drawing art tool.
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๐๐ฅ๐๐ป "I'm just waiting for a mate" game A choose your own adventure game that (ab)uses push notifications.
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๐๐ฑ๏ธ micro:clicker Use the BBC micro:bit as a slide clicker.
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๐ง๐ฅ๐จ๏ธ๐ผ๏ธ now playing printer Print out the album art music you're currently listening to on a receipt printer.
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๐ต๐๐ songkick.pink An experimental progressive web app for Songkick.
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๐ โ๐ถ Songkick Spotify Previews Add 30 second Spotify previews to Songkick.
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๐๐ domains Domain hacks based on words
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๐ฅ๐ฌ letterboxd on npm Get the public diary data for Letterboxd users.
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๐โ๏ธ Animal Crossing Birthday Card Fun little birthday card for my Nan.
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๐จโ๐ป๐ฉโ๐ป๐ ๏ธ hackpompey Portsmouth based hackday, ran 5 before handing over.
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๐น๐ป ROSE Digital Front-end and design at ROSE Digital.
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๐๐๐ itsyourbirthday.today Online birthday card generator. Made with my bro.
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๐ป๐ฅ The Computing Society's website Site for the society while I was President.
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๐๏ธ๐๐ UPRacing's Website Site for a Formula Student team I was part of.
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๐ ๐ Christmas card generator Make Christmas cards. Made with my bro
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๐ข Minecraft Explore Minecraft blog on Tumblr. No updates now.
Some things I've written
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๏ธ๏ธ๏ธ๐ธ๐ Why weโre changing our colours We want Farewill to be accessible to as many people as possible.
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๏ธ๏ธ๏ธ๐ต๏ธ How to detect and use โDo Not Trackโ on your website By Mustafa and Zac โค๏ธ
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๏ธ๏ธ๏ธ๐ฐ๐ธ It's time to get into tech debt Why you can't avoid tech debt and how you should embrace it
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๏ธ๏ธ๏ธ๐ง๐ Hackdays arenโt just for the tech department With a little effort you can make your hackday inclusive to more people
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๐๐ Applying User Testing to Technical Documentation Can it help improve documentation?