25/05/2025 - I have an interview for an intership at the NHS. The role would be foucsed on inforamtics and data analysis, the NHS seems to primarily use a data dashboarding software called "Power BI". so I thought it would show some self initiative to create a small dashboard project with this software, and use SQL as the back end as that is another desired skill for the informatics team. I will try to use some real NHS data, hopefully this leaves a good impression in my interview in a few days... fingers crossed. *edit* I made a lot more that just a powerbi dashboard in preparation for this role, i created a database on postgresql, and linked that to azure cloud as a manaaged database and created dashboards through it in multiple separate projects - find the link to the github page HERE!

14/08/2026 - I was accepted to and currently am coming to the end of my work placement with the informatics team at the start of september, i have met some really nice people who helped guide and mentor me along the way. After countless adhoc queries My SQL skills have drastically developed and I am comfortable understanding some enterprise software and power apps, aswell as some server technologies, i have made multiple dashboard used by real world clincial leads in the NHS right now and am proud of my work, i will include these in my projects page eventually... I have also learned the importance of domain knoledge in a business environment and how important a team is when combining domain knowledge and skill sets. Looking forward, this has given me the chance to view my career goals and ultimate life path through a different lense and has solidifed my belief in myself and what i can achieve. I know i have the ability to learn, understand and apply at a high level in a realworld setting with stakeholders, now i need to focus on what i enjoy.

01/06/2024 - Temporarily taken down the website for "maintenence", i intend to revamp the user experience on mobile as up to now it has been pretty atrocious. Created a new landing page "down for maintenence!". I intend to completely ditch asp.net and convert the website to pure html, javascript, and css.

10/06/2024 - APIs are used to communicate betweena a webpage and a database, for obvious reasons, this is a a cruical skill to have in webdevelopment and I have begun learning how to use and eventually create one. Developers that create APIs can then reuse or share their apis to others and so I have implemented "TheCatAPI" that fetches a random cat image. I have put this in its own page called Cat.html To do this, I had to learn about asyncrounous functions and the different ES6 and ES8 versions of javascript.

20/06/2024 - Have recently completely revamped the website, working with viewport units and adapting to mobile has been a learning experience for me and has enabled me to write dynamic webpages as you can see. It was especially important to get my website working on mobile for its accessibilty as I found the majority of users are in fact on mobile. this revamp has been an ongoing process but has now come to a close after alot of css work.

17/03/2023 - I decided to revisit this project, adding in and improving on various features. I added in a three heart life system and uploaded it to unity play so it could be played in a browser.

18/03/2023 - I've been trying to implement an inventory bar that shows the next food item to be shot. I also am implementing a reload feature with its own reload icon on the corresponding inventory slot that must be held down to reload your food objects. I have been working on the game all day for more or less 14 hours straight as there is so much to this. It has been quite the undertaking but it is finally coming together, I almost have it working perfectly.

19/03/2023 - I finished off the inventory slot system and reloading system today and have been working on adding in a progressive difficulty that constantly increases as the game goes on. Again, I have been working at this all day long.

20/03/2023 - With the life, slot and reloading system added; I decided to separate the difficuly increases into levels that change with the terrain. I have also implemented a final boss type character on stage 5 which is essentially just a big chicken that takes more food to kill but moves slower on the screen aswell as the other animals.

21/03/2023 - I added boss music and victory music aswell as a final secret 6th level that is only accessed upon beating level 5. The 6th level goes on forever and gets harder over time so no matter what you will lose eventually, but this allows players to get their own unique highscore past the winscreen. Furthermore, I have finetuned the animal speed and spawn rates on each of the levels to be more fair but also challenging - I think i have it just right. Overall, I feel finished with this project and am very satisfied with how it is now.

01/02/2023 - This work in progress, my initial vision for this project is an topdown isometric type game with zombiesque creatures that attack you.

02/02/2023 - So far i have downloaded a character model and managed to animate the player when they move.

11/02/2023 - I have now scripted the behaviour of the zombies, they simply spawn as a clone in the same spot at intervals and follow the player. I programmed their heads to constantly look at and follow the player, their models are simple geometric shapes still tho.

23/02/2023 - I've downloaded a few sword models and bound one to the player models hand. When they attack, the game object is activated and leaves a cool trail behind too. Additionally, I added in Collision detection with the zombies exclusively and have their game object be destroyed if hit by the player.

10/03/2023 - Finally figured out how to make the player look at the mouse, had to use raycasts from the mouse screen position, then detect the position of the ray collision in the actual world space, bind an empty game object to that collision position, then have the player look at that game object constantly. It Feelt great to figuere this out in particular.

28/04/2024 - I Have Finished My Horde Project! I pivotted the idea instead to a lady getting chased by zombie barbie dolls - Renaming the project to "BARBIE ZOMBIES!", complete with a similar life system to my animal run game and is availible on unity play

10/06/2023 - To start with, I have been experimenting with the camera and control types. The objecitve was to make the camera move with the mouse which is much harder than you might expect. I have had to delve much deeper into unity's new input system which can get very complicated. Then use the input to alter the rotation of the camera. This is difficult to do because the camera rotation values are in quaternions and quaternions should never be directly altered in unity unless absolutely neccesary. Thus i had to convert values back and forth between vector3s and quaternions which got very complicated, however, now i have a working camera system that can be re-used in any first person or 3rd person game i make.

14/06/2023 - Now the problem with the third person camera is that the character is always over the shoulder of the player. This is fine apart from when the player wants to run away but still be able to move the camera to look around independantely like in an open world game such as GTA or, as is the ultimate goal of this project, The legend of zelda. I will be working on this next.

01/10/2025 - I have been working on a side project to create my own Operating System! OS from 0 to 1 is a fully comprehensive book designed to be self contained course on the fundamentals of creating your own operating system from scratch. So far I have been reviewing my conditional logic and developing my understing of electrical engineering, mainly at allaboutcircuits.com. This should be a crucially helpful course to improve my fundamental understanding of computers and their architecture, something i already know a thing or two about and would like to apply my knowledge practically, really consolidate and build upon it.

01/12/2025 - At a foundational level, computers operate using combinational logic gates to make decisions. To get a better grasp of how this logic works in practice, I've been working through a recommended Coursera course called nand2tetris. The goal is to build a range of logic chips, starting with basic gates like AND, OR, and MUX, and progressing to more complex components like MUX32 chips that handle multiple input bits and multiplex them. This course is helping me deepen my understanding of how computing works right down to the physical level. I've been using hardware simulator software to design and test these chips first by sketching out logic diagrams, then by coding and simulating their behaviour. It's been a really interesting way to connect theory with actual hardware design.

14/08/2026 - What do i have a passion for? Within computing, I like Computer Architecture, I like cryptography and I like networking. It is with a new found confidence and conviction that i return to my operating system project and will be updating with milestones and pushing myself to learn that low level software/hardware intersect that i now know is deeply rooted in not only what i am good at but interested in, have been all my life.

The OS from 0 to 1 is the PERFECT project for me to do and this placement has illuminated just how congruent every aspect of it is with my passions. I let myself explore different topics, disciplines and always found myself returning to my love of physics and more specificially electrical engineering combined with computer architecture and how internals of a computer work.

C is a language i have always liked learning, respected for its authentic timeless low level nature with no nonsense abstraction compared to higher languages and that meets right at that sweet intersect where hardware meets software that i love. I spent many wweeks doing exam quiz questions and finding my interests and every time i come back to Computer engineering which is really what it is. More specifically what job listings would i look for in the future? embedded systens engineer, embedded security engineer, firmware engineer, Hardware security.

This is the heart of technology outside of the constraints of building on top of another operating system, this is the real deal, the real meat and potatoes of computing. and for at least this project i will have these ideals in mind to motivate and push myself. i can create any technology be that spacecraft embedded systems, military, naval, aircraft - anythin but it starts with an understanding of the fundamentals and the low level, and that is what i will be doing. I will continue learning C, Assembly, and the fundamentals of computer architecture and electrical engineering to create my own operating system from scratch. I will be documenting my progress here on this website as i go along.

20/08/2026 - Completed an overview of C to refresh and consolidate my understanding again, I have worked in C before and it is an important language in embedded engineering and is designed specifically to work directly with memory using pointers and other direct memory manipulation features. a few topics i found complex but fascinating were unions, dynamic memory allocation for a 2d array and bitwise operations. This is one preliminary step for creating my operating system - will continue to update with other learning.