Wes Ellis./ a personal notebook
Technology. Stories. Side projects.
A few things worth writing down.

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App experiments.

Bigger app ideas I've built out to see if they hold up: a dashboard builder, a smarter storage concept and a news reader for the terminal.

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    FlowDrive: A Storage Optimizer That Only Exists on Paper (So Far)

    FlowDrive is my concept for a storage optimizer that learns which files you'll need and puts them on the fastest drive, written up as a spec and architecture with no code yet.

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    Terminal News: Headlines, Votes and Weather in Your Terminal

    Terminal News is my work-in-progress Go project for reading community-ranked news, local classifieds and NOAA weather in a text-only terminal app, for people who'd rather not open a browser to catch up.

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    DataChart: A Dashboard Builder That Got Bigger Than a Dashboard Builder

    DataChart is my open-source, multi-tenant dashboard builder, a FastAPI backend and React front end for dragging charts onto a page and wiring them to real data sources.