Steve Higgins
Web Projects
Welcome to my collection of fun web projects, experiments, and little hacks. These are just some of the demos and tests I've put together, playing around with different ideas and technologies. Feel free to explore and see what I've been tinkering with!
Confetti Blast
Confetti Blast is a lightweight, zero-dependency JavaScript library that lets you add dazzling confetti effects to your webpages. Its flexibility allows you to control every aspect of the confetti, including launch position, velocity, angle, spread, and colours.
December 5, 2024
Website Self Destruct
The Website Self Destruct Plugin is a fun JavaScript tool that adds a "Self Destruct" button to your website. When clicked, all elements on the page shake, and fly off the screen.
December 2, 2024
Snowfall Anywhere
Snowfall Anywhere is a lightweight JavaScript library that lets you add a falling snow effect to any webpage or specific elements on the page. It's easy to set up by adding a single script tag to your HTML and is easily customisable using just a few data attributes.
December 1, 2024
Pub Trumps
Based on the classic card game but legally different, battle against your opponent to find who trumps all others when it comes to trips to the pub. Who shows up the most? Who instigates the most trips? Who puts away the most pints? And who wins on the banter front?
November 23, 2024
Sandkings
Based partly on George R. R. Martin's novelette, 'Sandkings', but more so an episode of 'The Outer Limits', this simulation game is all about breeding a colony of alien insects that hatch from eggs brought back by a Mars lander. The game uses a third-party AI to generated in-game journal entries.
October 4, 2024
Secret Web Cypher
A demo of a secret cypher tool that's disguised as a normal website contact form. The form doesn't actually send anything, instead you enter a secret key in the subject field and then it either encrypts or decrypts the text the user enters discreetly in the background. The secret is to click on the green success message.
October 2, 2024
Planetary Clocks
These clocks display the current date and time on each planet in the solar system, scaled according to the unique rotational periods and orbit of each planet.
September 25, 2024
Paranomaly
A ghost hunting app I made as a proof of concept that looks for anomalies in a series of randomly generated numbers, the idea behind it is that paranormal forces can influence random number generation in order to communicate.
August 20, 2024
Compass
I saw a Kickstarter project called Truest North Compass which is a physical compass that points to a custom destination rather than pointing north. A secondary needle tells you how close you are to the location. I thought it would be easy to duplicate as an app for mobile devices with a compass built in.
April 29, 2024
Anyone There?
A little tool I made to help you find out how close you currently are to good animals like lions and bears. It works pretty well, but it would be quite a challenge researching all the animal locations to load the app with.
June 6, 2023
Animal Finder
A little tool I made to help you find out how close you currently are to good animals like lions and bears. It works pretty well, but it would be quite a challenge researching all the animal locations to load the app with.
April 23, 2023
Ghostly Glide
This was a test of ChatGPT's capabilities back in early-2023 when it was still quite new. I wondered if I could get it to write a clone of the famous Flappy Bird app. The answer, of course, was yes it could. This is my spooky version of the game.
April 13, 2023
Black Monk Ghost Hunt
A little point-and-click game where you move the ghost hunter around the screen. Guided by your EMF metre you need to find the spot with the strongest psychokentic energy and deploy a ghost hunting device... but look out for the black monk!
May 15, 2022
EctoEcho
EctoEcho is a ghost-hunting app designed to detect subtle changes in your environment using your device's accelerometer and gyroscope. The app "listens" for small movements and generates random words when a disturbance is detected.
November 21, 2019
YouTube Thumbnail Scraper
A handy tool that allows you to scrape the thumbnails from a YouTube video just by entering the video's URL.
August 1, 2014