Adam Dent
I'm Adam, a QA Engineer with a curiosity for building software and solving problems.
I enjoy creating tools, experimenting with new technologies, and turning ideas into working projects. This site brings together some of the things I've been building, along with links to my GitHub, LinkedIn, and other ways to get in touch.
Whereabouts live
Finds houses by name in rural North Yorkshire, where many properties have a name but no number and satnavs cannot place them. Type a house name, see it marked on a village map, and get directions. Works fully offline once loaded.
Built on Dr A Colin Day's free village maps (colinday.co.uk). Covers 865 of his North Yorkshire maps, around 42,000 named houses, with about 6,900 pinned by hand so far. More counties planned.
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Code is MIT licensed; house location data is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Houses are pinned by hand, one at a time.
Clamber building
A social app for rating path furniture: stiles, gates, footbridges, signposts, the man-made bits of a countryside walk that quietly need judging. Photograph one, rate it, and it joins a friends-only record shared with whoever else is on the app.
Mostly it's a learning project: an excuse to build and host a real app properly, with its own sign-in and a persistent database rather than everything living on the phone. React Native (Expo) on the frontend, Supabase for authentication and Postgres storage. Built and running on Android; not released yet.
Pixel Steelworks live
An interactive pixel-art map of the Consett Iron & Steel Works in County Durham, built in 3D. Slide through nearly two centuries, from the works rising out of the moors in the 1830s, through boom and closure in 1980, to the green fields there today. Tap a building for its history at that point in time.
Trading bot building
An automated trading system for US stocks, pairing a fast rule-based execution engine with a periodic AI-driven strategy layer. Currently running on paper (simulated) money only, and showing a real talent for losing it quickly.
World Cup sweepstake bot live
A serverless Telegram bot that automates a private World Cup sweepstake, following every match in real time and posting live updates, standings, eliminations, Golden Boot changes, and final prize results directly to a group chat.
Built on Cloudflare Workers with Durable Objects, it combines live match data from football-data.org with AI-generated commentary to deliver accurate updates with personality. The project showcases real-time event processing, external API integration, conversational AI, and resilient cloud architecture.
Contact
Bug reports, feature requests, hellos: [email protected].