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Summary

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Project Summary

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to give a brief and precise summary of the status of this project.

Overall Project Progress

Ideation

Id:	Name:	Summary:	Due:
id-001	Initial Concept	Begin the process	2006, Apr 27

Specifications

Id:	Name:	Summary:	Due:
sp-001	Requirements …	Write a requirements specification	2026, Apr 28

User Stories

No tasks were found.

Epics

Id:	Name:	Summary:	Due:
ep-001-website-redesign	Personal website …	Completely redesign my personal website.	2026, Apr 26
ep-002-kanban-system	Create Kanban System	Create a Kanban system for the site.	2026, Apr 29
ep-003-documentation-system	Create Documentation …	Create a documentation system for the site.	2026, Apr 30

Features

Id:	Name:	Summary:	Due:
ft-001	Image handling	Change the way posts handle their images to a …	2026, Apr 28
ft-002	Menu System	Switch the menu entries to be hierarchial.	2026, Apr 28

Requests

Id:	Name:	Summary:	Due:
rq-001-quick-wins	Quick Wins	A list of simple fast tasks.	2026, Apr 29
rq-002-image-processing	Image Processing	Provide image processing to posts.	2026, Apr 28
rq-003-clipboard-copy	Clipboard Writing	Get the clipboard copy code to work	2026, Apr 30
rq-004-html-check	HTML Check	Validate the generated HTML	2026, Apr 30
rq-005-polish-codeblock-copy	Polish Codeblock	Improve the codeblock rendering code	2026, Apr 28
rq-006-toggle-light-dark	Toggle Light / Dark …	Add a button to toggle light / dark mode.	2026, Apr 28
rq-007-main-menu-improvements	Improve Main Menu	Improvements to the main menu.	2026, May 01
rq-008-kanban-improvements	Improve Kanban …	Improvements to the Kanban section menu.	2026, May 01
rq-009-overall-look	Improve Overall Look	Improvements to the look and feel.	2026, May 04
rq-010-featured-images	Featured Images	Section cards should display featured images	2026, May 04
rq-011-hamburger-menu	Hamburger Menu	Add a hamburger menu	2026, May 05

Bugs

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Hamburger Menu

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Featured Images

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The section cards will look better and be more responsive if they are able to select an image based on the viewport size. Provide scaled down images for the featured images.

Improve Overall Look

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Make some improvements to look and feel of the website.

Improve Kanban Section

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Make some improvements to the Kanban menu section.

Improve Main Menu

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Make some improvements to the main menu.

Clipboard Writing

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The clipboard needs to work with Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

Create Documentation System

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Create a system of documentation that can be stored inside the project along with the code, tests, and all other relevant materials. The system will be under the same source control as the code.

By making the documents dynamic, and having them generated by the same files that we use to track progress they will always stay relevant. Documentation will be updated when the team makes changes to the markdown files e.g. updates to a Kanban will be reflected immediately in the documentation.

HTML Check

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Feed some output pages into the W3 HTML validator and clean up any issues.

Test Page

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Use this page for testing features.

Create Kanban System

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Create a Kanban card system that is fully integrated into the design and development process. It should be able to be maintained using just the code editor.

The system should provide the means for tracking ideas, requests, features and all other common forms of documentation.

Quick Wins

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A list of quick wins. These are ephemeral and will not be tracked individually. They are generally speaking tasks requiring under one hour of time to complete, and as little as a few minutes.

Treat this as a scratch pad to jot down ideas quickly before they flee your tiny mortal brain.

Image handling

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The images are currently all in a separate folder. Move them into branch bundles under the posts.

Image Processing

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The images supplied with a post should be processed to meet with site standards.

Menu System

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The menu was hard coded, improve it.

Polish Codeblock

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The codeblock rendering code is still a bit rough, especially in terms of appearance. Finish the job.

Requirements Specification

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Gather all the requirements and write them into a specification that clearly lays out all the agreed upon features for the client.

Toggle Light / Dark mode

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Make it easy for the user to select their preferred colour theme.

Personal website redesign

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

After thirteen long years, the time has come to completely redesign my personal website. While I’m perfectly happy with HUGO, the look and feel of the site is tired and dated.

It lacks responsive design affordments. There is no scaling of images for mobile, or slow internet connections. The SEO features are out of date.

Design Specification

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Functional Specification

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Ideation

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Ideas for the development of my blog site

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to state quite clearly the idea that will be further developed into a project.

Logline

Describe in as single sentance the purpose of this project.

I wish to create an elegant blog that can hold all my project ideas, plans, specifications, and progress.

Progress

Id:	Name:	Summary:	Due:
id-001	Initial Concept	Begin the process	2006, Apr 27

Expand the Idea

Take each key idea and move it into a section with a heading. Take all the small related ideas and move them under that heading.

Project Development Quick Guide

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Project Development Quick Guide

A quick start guide designed to remind you of the steps needed to bring a project to completion. Some are optional, depending on the scope of the project.

Ideation

Come up with an idea. Write it down.

Conception

Work the idea over in your head. Think about what problem it solves and if it’s worth the time and cost to produce.

Design

Methodically write down all of the things you wish the project could do. You can ruthlessly cut this list down as the project progresses.

Project Plan

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Project Plan

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Requirements Specification

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Requirements Specification

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Technical Specification Copy

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Technical Specification

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Test Specification

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Test Specification

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All HTML Elements on one Page

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Text

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Install Debian 13 (Trixie)

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Instructions for a quick start getting all my usual software and setup on a fresh Linux install.

Installing Armbian 26 on my ODROID-HC2

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A brief set of instructions on installing Armbian 26 on an ODROID-HC2 machine. It includes setting up Samba and Docker + Portainer.

After nearly a decade of faithful service I was thinking about giving my aging ODROID-HC2.

Installing Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm) on my Raspberry Pi 2b

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A brief set of instructions on installing Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm) on my Raspberry Pi 2b. It includes setting up Samba and Docker + Portainer.

I was going to use the latest version (Trixie), but unfortunately there are no Docker sources for it right now.

Hummus

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A middle eastern dish which is smooth, creamy and mildly tasty. Good for serving with croutons or flatbread.

American Cheese

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

An American cheese product that melts beautifully on hamburgers. Perfect for cheese toasties, Welsh rarebit, burgers, nachos, or topping a lasangne.

The cheese is processed to help prevent oils splitting from it when melting and to lower the melting point.

Pullman Pain De Mie

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

An enriched French style of bread that is light, fluffy, perfect for sandwiches, and is baked in a 13 inch Pullman loaf tin. This recipe aims for 1069 grams of dough.

Gang Garee Gai

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

My version of a yellow chicken Thai curry. It has more spices than a typical yellow curry.

Garlic, Ginger, Onion Paste

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A simple paste made of the most common Indian ingrediants. By measuring and cooking this out in advance you can save a lot of time in preparing Indian dishes. This allows for deeper flavours by ensuring Maillard reactions on onions and other aromatics have the time they require to occur.

Char Siu Pork

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The mouth watering Chinese pork dish that can be eaten on it’s own or added to soups and other dishes to bring them to life.

Mushroom Sauce

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A rich cream and butter sauce infused with earthy mushroom fragrence.

This pairs very well with steak and chips.

Lemon Bars

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A lemon custard atop a shortbread crust. Finely balanced between the sweetness of the sugar and sourness of the lemons.

Lemon Bars (Claire Saffitz)

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A rich version of the lemon bars recipe.

Hedgehog Slice

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This is a biscuit base chocolate recipe that is fast and easy to make. It keeps well in the cupboard or fridge.

In our family, this was always known as fudgecake. It’s a recipe mum would make a few times a year as a treat for the family. It requires few ingredients, and no cooking.

Conveniently, each of the major ingredients can be bought at a local supermarket in these sizes.

Chocolate Chip Cookie

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A classic, chewy, Amercian style chocolate chip cookie.

Peppercorn Sauce

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The classic Steak Au Poivre sauce. Rich, creamy and peppery.

This pairs very well with steak and chips.

Banana Bread

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Whenever there are over-ripe bananas in the house, it’s time to make this cake.

Broccoli Bacon Salad

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Broccoli adds brightness and crunch, while the bacon adds saltiness and umami to this dish. Cranberries bring in some floral notes, and the walnuts round it all out with some nuttiness.

Bin Bhuna Hua Garam Masala

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

An untoasted garam masala.

Lamb Rogahn Josh

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A wonderfully hot and spicy dish from Kashmir.

Pork Vindaloo

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

An authentic, spicy and hot vindaloo dish from the Goan community.

Scrambled Eggs

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Lovely, soft, buttery scrambled eggs.

Sausage Roll

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A basic sausage roll.

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Summary

Project Summary

Purpose

Overall Project Progress

Meta

Ideation

Specifications

User Stories

Epics

Features

Requests

Bugs

Hamburger Menu

Featured Images

Improve Overall Look

Improve Kanban Section

Improve Main Menu

Clipboard Writing

Create Documentation System

HTML Check

Test Page

Create Kanban System

Quick Wins

Image handling

Image Processing

Menu System

Polish Codeblock

Requirements Specification

Toggle Light / Dark mode

Personal website redesign

Design Specification

Design Specification

Less important.

Least important.

Functional Specification

Functional Specification

Less important.

Least important.

Ideation

Ideas for the development of my blog site

Purpose

Logline

Progress

Expand the Idea

Project Development Quick Guide

Project Development Quick Guide

Ideation

Conception

Design

Project Plan

Project Plan

Less important.

Least important.

Requirements Specification

Requirements Specification

Less important.

Least important.

Technical Specification Copy

Technical Specification

Less important.

Least important.

Test Specification

Test Specification

Less important.

Least important.

All HTML Elements on one Page

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5

Heading 6

Install Debian 13 (Trixie)

Installing Armbian 26 on my ODROID-HC2

Installing Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm) on my Raspberry Pi 2b

Hummus

American Cheese

Pullman Pain De Mie

Gang Garee Gai