🛠️ Projects & Interests
Practical ideas · Creative hobbies · Useful applications
Welcome to the part of SadlerNet devoted to the things I enjoy creating, exploring, improving, and preserving.
Some projects begin with a practical problem. Others grow from curiosity, a hobby, or simply the thought that there must be a better way to do something. Over time those ideas have grown into web applications, technical projects, family archives, collections, and hobbies that continue to evolve.
💡 Built for Real Life
Many of the applications on SadlerNet began because existing software was too complicated, too expensive, or simply didn't work the way I wanted.
Rather than working around those limitations, I started building my own solutions—tools that are practical, reliable, easy to use, and designed for real everyday needs.
The best software isn't always the one with the most features. It's the one that quietly does exactly what you need it to do.
🖥️ Web Applications
Over the years I've developed a growing collection of applications for personal use, family, friends, and work colleagues. Some solve very specific problems, while others have grown into much larger projects.
- 🗄️ XML Database Tools
Applications for reading, searching, importing, editing, and managing XML databases and structured data such as unreadable phone backups. - 🎬 Movie Collection
A complete catalogue of movies, artwork, actors, genres, and personal collections. - 📷 Picture Galleries
Browse thousands of photographs organised by folders, dates, and events. - 📝 Technical Notes & Databases
Applications for organising notes, importing data, managing information, and preserving technical knowledge.
🔧 Engineering & Technology
My career in roof truss detailing has developed into a broader interest in engineering, construction, software development, and finding practical solutions to technical problems.
Whether it's designing applications, improving workflows, restoring old data, or building tools from scratch, I enjoy understanding how things work and making them better.
🌿 Beyond the Computer
Not every project involves software.
Some of the interests you'll find throughout SadlerNet include:
- 🍺 Brewing & Distilling — Recipes, equipment, calculations, and experiments.
- 🚐 Caravans & Travel — Restoration projects, repairs, modifications, and adventures.
- 📸 Photography & Photo Preservation — Organising, restoring, and protecting family photographs.
- 🧰 Home & Workshop Projects — Repairs, electronics, woodworking, tools, and practical ideas.
- 👨👩👧 Family History — Stories, photographs, memories, and preserving our family's history for future generations.
📚 A Place to Keep What Matters
One of the reasons SadlerNet exists is to bring together information that would otherwise become scattered across notebooks, folders, hard drives, and old computers.
Here, projects become articles, photographs become stories, ideas become applications, and family history is preserved in one place for future generations.
🌱 Always Growing
SadlerNet isn't intended to be a finished website.
It's an ongoing collection of projects, ideas, memories, and hobbies that will continue to grow over time as new interests develop and old ones are rediscovered.
✨ "Every project begins with curiosity. The satisfaction comes from creating something useful and sharing it with others."
🚀 Explore
Whether you're interested in software, engineering, brewing, caravans, photography, family history, or simply enjoy seeing how personal projects evolve, I hope you find something here that is useful, interesting, or inspiring.
Happy exploring!