JAMES KING · projects ·
2026
· CATALOGUE ·

STUFF
I'VE BUILT.

(mostly in typescript,
occasionally in go!)
READ IF YOU LIKE:
· over-engineered weekend projects
· putting typescript in places it
  probably didn't need to be
· automating yourself into a corner
Shall we take a look at some projects I've done? This is the bit where I pretend each project was carefully scoped and not built at 11pm because I thought it would be fun. Some are still alive, some are quietly retired, and one (waving at Janky Werewolf) was made for a lockdown and then somehow refused to die.

You can tell roughly how excited I was about a project by how much documentation I wrote for it after the fact. Spoiler: not enough.
+ INSIDE THIS ISSUE
001 · fitgluep.01
002 · skierp.02
003 · bingham srcp.03
004 · state examplesp.04
005 · pres. timerp.05
006 · janky werewolfp.06
007 · ripixel.co.ukp.07
★ FEATURED · NO. 001 built 2025 · retired 2026
FITGLUE.
an automation platform for fitness enthusiasts who are tired of manually copying their workouts between apps.
Ever finished a killer workout on one app and then had to faff about re-entering it all somewhere else? Yeah, me too. FitGlue connects your fitness services and syncs activities — with some magical enrichment along the way (AI-generated descriptions, parkrun result lookups, weather data enrichment, and more). It's built on a React frontend with a Go and TypeScript backend, all running on Google Cloud.

Retired as a public product in 2026. It lives on privately on my own box, and it's what feeds the fitness pages on this site.
#go #typescript #react #google cloud #ai enrichment
about fitglue → github repos
also in the catalogue.
↓ smaller, equally chaotic ↓
NO. 002

SKIER.

A custom static site generator, because the world definitely needed another one. I kept getting frustrated with existing options — either too simple or requiring me to learn an entire framework. So I did what any sensible developer would do: spent considerably more time building my own. Powers this site, FitGlue marketing, and the Bingham SRC site.
tech / node · cli · markdown github
NO. 003

BINGHAM SRC.

A full digital ecosystem for a small Sunday running club. What started as "can you make us a simple website?" turned into a React-based race tracker app, a Skier-powered club site, and a CI/CD pipeline that would make enterprise teams jealous. Every Sunday, results are live before the slowest runner even finishes.
tech / react · firebase · spotify
NO. 004

STATE EXAMPLES.

A site demoing Redux, Zustand, Jotai, Context, and more — for the curious developer. With brutally honest pros/cons for each approach. Because "which state manager should I use?" deserves a better answer than "it depends".
tech / react · vite github
NO. 005

PRES. TIMER.

A countdown timer with music streaming for presentations and streams, all in one browser tab. Having the countdown and music in the same tab means your streaming tool can pick up the audio without any fuss.
tech / vanilla js · web audio github
NO. 006

JANKY WEREWOLF.

Browser-based Ultimate Werewolf, born in lockdown 2020. My friends and I adore the card game, and when meetings went virtual there was no way to play. React frontend, WebSockets, AWS Lambdas, and a Rust backend by Michael Goddard. Who's dead, Jim?
tech / react · ws · rust backend
NO. 007

RIPIXEL.CO.UK.

This very website. Why use a static site generator when you can just… y'know… write the HTML yourself? (Also it uses Skier, sometimes.) As with all personal sites, I've been going back and forth on how to implement it for literally years.
tech / html · css · skier
VISIT THE CORPORATE LABEL → RIPIXEL.CO.UK →