Ed Johnson-Williams

I've been writing shapenote tunes in the Sacred Harp/Christian Harmony style.

3 year ago, I made a map of British mountains.

Use LLMs to build systems that solve problems.

I've been looking at RedwoodSDK recently.

I've launched an app that matches any colour to popular colour palettes.

You can deploy Laravel on Vercel.

I'm making a new tool called Nearest Color to help you find the nearest colour from your palette.

I've made a tags input component for Svelte.

Shut Up & Sit Down – the board game reviewers – have a fun video called Nine Easy Ways to Make Chess Fun that looks at 9 variants on the rules of chess.

I've made a microblog.

Update (19.12.2023): I've allowed my Apple developer certificate lapse and the domain expired so this isn't available any more :-( Draft One is a new app I've built.

Earlier this week, I wrote about the UK Prominent Peaks database.

There's a very high mountain in the Cairngorms in Scotland called "Sgor an Lochain Uaine".

That’s it.

I watched a funeral of a former colleague on Youtube today.

A few years ago, I made a tool called Get YouTube Thumbnails.

I've made a new tool called Find the nearest Tailwind colour.

Update: I've rewritten First Draft from scratch and re-worked it into a totally offline desktop app.

I've made a very small website of coffee recipes.

I am not a professional web developer.

User story As a 3-year old, I want to press any and all the keys on my dad's keyboard, So I can see trains.

Saudi Arabia wants to buy 80% of Newcastle United Football Club to make itself look good.

Save Your Indie High Street is a response to coronavirus.

CSS Tricks has an article up about using a different favicon for local development and production.

In the UK, the NHS is taxpayer-funded and free at the point of access. [^1] It is great.

Twitter's decision to ban political ads by the end of November ^1 could lead to some bad situations for campaign groups, charities, and NGOs.

Title says it all.

Over the last year, I've been designing posters for the Durham Sacred Harp singing.

I've rebuilt the Durham Sacred Harp site in Eleventy.

Jekyll has a useful filter called markdownify that converts a Markdown string into HTML.

I made a website for the Newcastle Sacred Harp singing group.

I've recently added a page called Reading List to this website.

I’ve made a website.

This is another really silly Sacred Harp one.

I've previously done some analysis involving songs from the Sacred Harp.

I made a web app that makes it easy to download thumbnails for YouTube videos.

This post is as a future reminder for me as much as anything.

A singer at the Sacred Harp singing in Durham yesterday was calling only square numbers.

This is a very silly post.

Yesterday saw the first City of Durham Parish Council Election.

Today is both April Fools' Day and Easter Sunday (in Western Christianity).

<p> A couple of weeks ago, I was in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Harp">Sacred Harp</a> singing school where a new singer asked whether there are female composers in the Sacred Harp.

I made a website for the Durham Sacred Harp singing group.

Answer...less often than every other day except Saturday.

Donald Trump says that removing statues to Confederate generals is changing history.

A quick trade deal means the country with the smaller economy being forced to accept the demands of the larger economy in return for the speed of the deal.

This has been said many times before.

I'm a straight, Christian man who is liberal - both politically and theologically.