James Blair

WaiMUN

Built and deployed the full-stack event platform in collaboration with organising committee members – managing registration, payments, personalised badge generation and automated emails for 126 registered students across 15 schools.

• TypeScript
• Astro
• Tailwind CSS
• Sanity CMS
• Airtable
• Stripe
• React Email

Air Quality Monitor

Developed an air quality monitor on an ESP32 in C++, pushing serialised eCO2, TVOC and climate readings to a Hono/Drizzle REST API, with a Next.js frontend displaying live statistics using TanStack Query.

• C++
• Arduino
• TypeScript
• Hono
• Drizzle ORM
• Next.js
• Tailwind CSS
• TanStack Query

RHS Netball

Developed a static website using Astro, serving assets from Cloudflare R2 – optimised for fast load times, giving coaches and umpires quick access to resources, photos and the embedded calendar.

• TypeScript
• Astro
• SolidJS
• Tailwind CSS
• Sentry

Homelab

Maintain self-hosted infrastructure for learning production-style operations, including Linux servers, Docker services, reverse proxies, DNS, backups, and home networking.

• Linux
• Docker
• Caddy
• Cloudflare
• Networking

PaperSpigot Fork

Identified and patched a state desync bug in PaperSpigot – out-of-range block placements were rejected without a corrective client update, causing ghost blocks. Fixed by forking the project and issuing the missing update packets.

• Java
• PaperSpigot
• Minecraft
• NMS

Bridging Plugin

Developed a multiplayer game server plugin in Kotlin, implementing a session replay system, packet-level NMS hooks, and a persistent MariaDB database layer using Exposed and coroutines for async handling.

• Kotlin
• Spigot
• Exposed
• MariaDB

Built a fast-paced helpdesk game where players answer alien support tickets against the clock using an in-app reference manual. The app combines a Next.js game UI, FastAPI ticket generation, and an Express/OpenRouter semantic answer checker.

• TypeScript
• Next.js
• Express
• FastAPI
• OpenRouter

Prototyped a reputation-backed marketplace for sharing items and proving trust. The app includes user accounts, marketplace listings, claims and attestations, skill proof flows, uploads, chat features and a trust-scoring model built around community verification.

• TypeScript
• Next.js
• Drizzle ORM
• Postgres
• UploadThing

Created an employer dashboard for calculating and distributing employee bonuses on Base Sepolia. It pairs wallet-based onboarding, AI-assisted bonus summaries and payout history with a Foundry smart contract that transfers dNZD bonuses to employees.

• TypeScript
• Hono
• TanStack Router
• SQLite
• Solidity