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Experiments & Prototypes

Ideas being tested to find out whether they deserve to exist.

Some work is not trying to be finished. It is trying to answer a question: would this be better if it worked differently?

These are the prototypes, the research and the personal builds. Their statuses are honest, and some of them will stay experiments.

The Idea Drawer

The Work

PROJECT_012Web & Apps / Offline-First / Product Design
Writing at the workshop desk with the notebook open beside the laptop: an index of notes down one side — pinned, work, ideas, projects, archive, trash — and an open note about tracking van stock, tagged and half-written
ACTIVE

Notepad

A notepad quick enough that opening it never feels like work, with all the engineering that makes it trustworthy kept underneath the interface.

  • IndexedDB
  • Offline First
  • Sync
  • Conflict Resolution
  • +4
UPDATED 27.09.26Open project
PROJECT_011Networking / Learning Design / Web & Apps
Studying at the bench with the Workbench open on the screen: the IP Connectivity domain with its lessons ticked off, a packet journey from a PC through a switch and router, a router-on-a-stick lab with two VLANs, and the output of show ip interface brief beside real switches and a stack of CCNA books
ACTIVE

CCNA Workbench

It started as somewhere to organise revision notes. It became a place to practise networking rather than read about it.

  • CCNA
  • Cisco
  • Networking
  • Simulation
  • +4
UPDATED 27.09.26Open project
PROJECT_010Web / Design / Writing
The desk this gets built at: two screens, one showing the lewiscleveland.uk home page and the other a code editor, a pegboard of aviation photographs and drawings behind, a Canon body and a sketchbook of wireframes on the desk, stacked books labelled field service, netball, ice hockey, photography, woodwork and web development, and a cat asleep on the chair
ACTIVE

This Website

Apparently the website needed a page about building the website. We're through the looking glass now.

  • Web Development
  • Design
  • Retro-futurism
  • Static Site
  • +2
lewiscleveland.uk · UPDATED 18.09.26Open project
PROJECT_008Grassroots Sport / Software / Coaching
Retro illustration: a coach watching a laptop at the side of a court, one screen half court diagram and half charts, while a shooter lines up behind her and a defender reaches
IN USE

Netball Stats

Grassroots netball statistics that a coach can actually capture mid-game. Built into the G&W club platform, and now being opened up to other clubs.

  • Netball
  • Coaching
  • Statistics
  • Grassroots Sport
  • +2
UPDATED 18.09.26Open project
PROJECT_004Field Service / Software / UX
Retro-futurist painting: an engineer with a tablet at the centre of a connected service operation — job steps, a coordination room, reception, parts, the van and a UK map, all linked by one glowing workflow
PROTOTYPE

Field Service App

A proof of concept exploring what field service software could look like if it were designed around the people actually using it.

  • Field Service
  • UX
  • Service Operations
  • Equipment History
  • +2
UPDATED 12.09.26Open project

From the Notebook

Field Notes documenting the ideas, decisions and lessons behind this area of work.

  • Networking
  • 9 min read
  • 20.09.26

NetworkChuck: Curiosity, Networking and Learning in Public

Chuck Keith treats networking as something you can build, break and explore rather than memorise. He is one of the reasons I started chasing the CCNA, and a large part of why this site is a workshop rather than a CV.

  • Thoughts
  • 7 min read
  • 18.09.26

The Future We Were Promised

There is something about the 1950s that has always sung to me. Not the decade itself — their idea of the future, and the confidence that somebody would go and build it.

  • Web Development
  • 8 min read
  • 16.09.26

Websites With a Personality

Can small businesses escape the template, subscription and sameness trap? An experiment in websites that feel like the business and actually belong to it.

  • Networking
  • 4 min read
  • 13.09.26

Working Towards My CCNA 200-301

Understanding the network behind the technology — and turning "I think this works" into "I know why this works".

  • Field Service
  • 8 min read
  • 12.09.26

Engineering That Moves

Field Service Engineer at Precor, August 2025 to present. Where the mechanical, the digital and the questions about field service itself all meet.

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