Our portfolio is deliberately small and honest. It shows where Hiddlins began, as a personal full-stack developer portfolio, along with the experiments we keep building to sharpen our craft. We would rather show you a few real projects, described accurately, than a wall of logos.
Archive projects#
These projects come from the original Hiddlins portfolio, back when the site belonged to a freelance developer exploring HTML5, JavaScript and PHP. They are simple by today’s standards, but they reflect the same habits we still rely on: building by hand, keeping things lean and finishing what we start.
Wood’N’Horse#
Type: Small business website. Site: woodnhorse.net
Wood’N’Horse is a website built for a small business. The brief was the kind many small businesses share: a clear, approachable online presence that explains what the business does and makes it easy for people to get in touch. The emphasis was on straightforward navigation, readable content and a design that reflected the character of the business rather than a generic template.
It was an early, practical lesson in what small business owners actually need from a website: something that works reliably, loads without fuss and can be understood in a few seconds. That lesson still shapes our WordPress website and landing page work today.
Free Code Camp Random Quote Machine#
Type: Front-end coding challenge. Platform: CodePen
The Random Quote Machine was built as one of the front-end challenges in the Free Code Camp curriculum and published on CodePen. The task is small but instructive: display a random quote, let the user request a new one and offer a way to share it. Building it meant working with JavaScript events, updating the page dynamically and keeping the interface simple and responsive.
Exercises like this are where many developers learn the fundamentals, and we are happy to show it. The same core skills of handling user input, updating the DOM and keeping JavaScript small and purposeful are what we write about in Modern JavaScript Without the Bloat.
Explore our lab#
Not everything we build is for a client. Some of our favourite work happens in what we think of as the lab: small creative-coding experiments where we explore an idea, a technique or a performance question just because it interests us.
The most visible example is right on our home page. The particle animation in the hero is a creative-coding experiment built with the HTML Canvas API and JavaScript. Its job is to add a quiet sense of movement and depth behind the headline without getting in the way of the content.
The interesting part, as always, is in the hidden details. A decorative animation should never cost the visitor much, so the goal of the experiment is to stay lightweight. The questions it explores are the ones that matter for any animated interface: how many particles a screen really needs, how to keep each frame cheap to draw, when to stop animating altogether, and how to respect the prefers-reduced-motion setting for people who find motion uncomfortable. It is a small demonstration of the balance we look for in all our work: something that feels a little special, built responsibly.
If you would like to build something similar, we have written a full walkthrough: Building a Lightweight Canvas Particle Animation from Scratch. For more on choosing the right rendering technology for charts and interactive graphics, see Data Visualization on the Web: SVG vs Canvas vs WebGL, and for a look at what is possible with AI on the client side, read Practical Machine Learning in the Browser with JavaScript.
Work with us#
Every project in this portfolio started with a conversation. If you have an idea, a site that needs attention or a problem you would like to explore, take a look at our services and process, or simply contact us. We aim to reply within one business day.
Frequently asked questions
Why are there only a few projects in your portfolio?
We only show work we are able to share publicly and describe accurately. Some client work is covered by confidentiality, and we would rather show a small, honest portfolio than pad it out.
Can I see examples relevant to my industry?
Get in touch and tell us about your project. Where we can, we will walk you through relevant work and approaches during a discovery call, within the limits of any confidentiality agreements.