About me
I'm Zac and I like making stuff, community events and the web .
I'm passionate about removing barriers for people. I'm trying to do this through things like education, accessibility, diversity and inclusion .
One place I used to do this is through co-organising codebar Monthlies . I also started and used to run hackpompey, a Portsmouth based hack event .
My day job is currently at Beano Studios where I'm a developer. Before that I worked at Farewill and Songkick . At the University of Portsmouth I started a partnership called ROSE .
I like making things, some of my projects are on GitHub and some are on Glitch .
I love listening to music and going to gigs . I sometimes watch films ️ and own a stack of books I rarely read .
If you want to contact me, emailing works. You can email me at: hi@zaccolley.com .
You can find me talking shit on Mastodon at @zac@toot.cafe . I also used to tweet a lot at @zaccolley . Some of my photos are on Instagram .
Some things I've made
Here are some things I've made over the years that are fairly interesting.
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Pizza Timer
A timer for pair programming
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Please Caption Bot
A accessibility Mastodon bot that reminds you to caption your posts' images and videos
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accessible colour contrasts
A colour combo accessibility Mastodon bot that grabs accessible colours combos from: randoma11y.com
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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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orla kiely flowers
A p5.js recreation of Orla Keily's art
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shitty goosebumps books bot
a shitty goosebumps book randomly generated every so often
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rotate
How to handle websites between landscape and portrait modes on mobile
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catmode
Depeche Mode cat e-card for my Mom mad with
my bro
- Hamiltonian paths bot A bot that generates Hamiltonian path GIFs
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zaccoin
The soft launch of my very own cryptocurrency
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softdongs
Tool to make your own packer. Made at Sex Tech Hack 2 with
Cam, Kara and Guy.
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food flood
A small food colour filling game
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Amazon Alexa #WebVR Simulator™️
Simulates what it's truly like to own a Amazon Alexa product.
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sockbot
A bot that spits out socks every hour.
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clicky-line-drawer
Wiggly line drawing art tool.
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"I'm just waiting for a mate" game
A choose your own adventure game that (ab)uses push notifications.
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micro:clicker
Use the BBC micro:bit as a slide clicker.
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now playing printer
Print out the album art music you're currently listening to on a receipt printer.
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songkick.pink
An experimental progressive web app for Songkick.
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Songkick Spotify Previews
Add 30 second Spotify previews to Songkick.
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domains
Domain hacks based on words
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letterboxd on npm
Get the public diary data for Letterboxd users.
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Animal Crossing Birthday Card
Fun little birthday card for my Nan.
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hackpompey
Portsmouth based hackday, ran 5 before handing over.
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ROSE Digital
Front-end and design at ROSE Digital.
- itsyourbirthday.today Online birthday card generator. Made with my bro.
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UPRacing's Website
Site for a Formula Student team I was part of.
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Christmas card generator
Make Christmas cards. Made with
my bro
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Minecraft Explore
Minecraft blog on Tumblr.
No updates now.
Some things I've written
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Why we’re changing our colours
We want Farewill to be accessible to as many people as possible.
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How to detect and use ‘Do Not Track’ on your website
By Mustafa and Zac ❤️
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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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Hackdays aren’t just for the tech department
With a little effort you can make your hackday inclusive to more people
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Applying User Testing to Technical Documentation
Can it help improve documentation?