Adam Dent
I'm Adam, a QA Engineer with a curiosity for building software and solving problems.
I enjoy creating tools, experimenting with new technologies, and turning ideas into working projects. This site brings together some of the things I've been building, along with links to my GitHub, LinkedIn, and other ways to get in touch.
Whereabouts live
Finds houses by name in rural North Yorkshire, where many properties have a name but no number and satnavs cannot place them. Type a house name, see it marked on a village map, and get directions. Works fully offline once loaded.
Built on Dr A Colin Day's free village maps (colinday.co.uk). Covers 865 of his North Yorkshire maps, around 42,000 named houses, with about 6,900 pinned by hand so far. More counties planned.
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Code is MIT licensed; house location data is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Houses are pinned by hand, one at a time.
Clamber building
A social app for rating path furniture: stiles, gates, footbridges, signposts, the man-made bits of a countryside walk that quietly need judging. Photograph one, rate it, and it joins a friends-only record shared with whoever else is on the app.
Mostly it's a learning project: an excuse to build and host a real app properly, with its own sign-in and a persistent database rather than everything living on the phone. React Native (Expo) on the frontend, Supabase for authentication and Postgres storage. Built and running on Android; not released yet.
Pixel Steelworks live
An interactive pixel-art map of the Consett Iron & Steel Works in County Durham, built in 3D. Slide through nearly two centuries, from the works rising out of the moors in the 1830s, through boom and closure in 1980, to the green fields there today. Tap a building for its history at that point in time.
Trading bot building
An automated trading system for US stocks, pairing a fast rule-based execution engine with a periodic AI-driven strategy layer. Currently running on paper (simulated) money only, and showing a real talent for losing it quickly, which is precisely why it isn't allowed anywhere near anything real yet.
World Cup sweepstake bot live
A Telegram bot that runs a World Cup sweepstake for a private group chat. It assigns everyone a team at random, then follows the tournament and posts as things happen: goals, half-time and full-time results, eliminations, and eventually a winner.
It also has an AI side. Alongside the results it chats in the group with its own personality: opinions, running jokes, reactions, kept consistent by a set of memories it builds up and holds onto as the tournament goes on.
It checks live scores on a timer and posts automatically, with a bit of commentary alongside the bare results, so nobody has to sit refreshing a scores page. It has no web page; it lives entirely in Telegram.
Built for one group so far. I may turn it into something other groups can run themselves, but that's not built yet.
Contact
Bug reports, feature requests, hellos: hello@adamdent.uk.