Work
Everything here is self-initiated: designed, built and run in my own time. Each one exists because I noticed a problem most people and products quietly miss.
The UK’s largest volunteer-edited encyclopaedia of LGBTQ+ history, archived by the British Library.
An open-source platform giving any walkable place its own location-aware app. EU-hosted and free to self-host.
A location-aware photography tool that surfaces historic images at the exact spot where they were taken.
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A design investigation into what a dating app would look like if it were built around meeting, not matching.
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Original research into where WCAG colour contrast requirements fail, with a stress-testing tool and a paper.
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A website for the Tollesbury Arts Trail, now growing into a full online gallery for the village’s artistic community.
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An accessibility-first homepage concept for the village GP practice: plain language, WCAG 2.2 AA contrast and the two commonest tasks first. Partly adopted by the surgery.
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A digital platform replacing paper processes at a sailing club: trip planning, crew management, governance.
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My own publishing imprint. Two books in progress: Useful, on enterprise software, and The Neurotic Gene.
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jharbourne.com is built to the standard it advertises: every push lints the code, audits each page in a real browser, and fails on any slip.
It takes almost nothing from you. The analytics are cookieless: no cookies, no local storage, no profile of you, and no fonts phoning home. A portfolio has no business knowing who you are.
The same rules run through the work: cookieless, EU-hosted analytics rather than Google’s, apps that install from the browser rather than an app store, logins only for editing, and accessibility checked rather than asserted.