Some for money.
Some for sanity.
Some because I can.
I'm Anthony Barnes, Director of WebOptimizer Agency. These are the things I build on the side.
"Bants" was a nickname I picked up at work, and it stuck. I'm Anthony Barnes, Director of WebOptimizer Agency, where I work as a consultant and software engineer. I have ideas: some are for money, some for sanity, some because I can.
I build them, I polish them, and I write them up here.
The banter is optional. The notes are honest.
Projects
07 shipped, many abandonedCachper is a managed edge cache and CDN for WordPress sites that sits in front of your existing host and serves your pages from a global edge network.
- WordPress plugin
- PHP API
- Global edge CDN
- WordPress
- Laravel (Acorn)
design.tattoo turns a tattoo idea you can describe in words into drawn takes, an on-skin preview, and a file with everything a tattoo artist needs to ink it.
PropVid turns a property listing into a professional-looking slideshow with a custom script and a natural-sounding voiceover, in minutes.
A tool in a Docker container that reads my mail, finds receipts and forwards them directly to my accountancy software inbox.
- docker
- ollama
- local llm
Contimatic (aka ArticleSEOer) is my content studio: ideas, drafts and the calendar, all in one place. Plan it. Write it. Publish it.
A little side project I use to share designs with clients in a beautiful and private way, usually as working HTML prototypes they can click through.
- html
- css
- javascript