Daily: Hire Page, Store, About, and a vJoy Fix
What Shipped Today
One of those days where everything clicks and you just keep going. Here's what went live.
Hire Page Rework
The old commissions page was vague — one card for remote support, no contact options above the fold, and three different names for the same page (gigs, commissions, hire me). Fixed all of it.
What changed:
- Unified naming — "HIRE ME" everywhere (nav, homepage, page itself)
- Split into two sections: Engineering & Design and Remote Services
- Three new remote service cards — IT support, server/network, web portal management
- WhatsApp and email buttons at the top — no more scrolling to find out how to reach me
- WhatsApp number is obfuscated — built in JavaScript at click time, never in the HTML source
About Page
Didn't have one. Now I do.
Pulled from real CV history — precision engineering, sheet metal fabrication, mobile maintenance, IT support at Misco, production assembly, CNC/laser operation, ECU tuning at Injex Performance. Twenty years of work condensed into five timeline blocks that tell the story from lathes to code.
The personal section is there too. Hollie, Indigo, why the site exists. Short, honest, no more than it needs to be.
Store — Live
Six products on the store page, all sourced from content/store/<slug>/product.json. Two available with download links (CLAW and DevScan on itch.io), four coming soon. Ko-fi links on the free tools for anyone who wants to buy me a coffee.
Cart and Stripe checkout are next — but getting the products visible was the priority today.
Open Letter to Anthropic
Wrote a public post offering to work with Anthropic as a tester and feedback source for Claude Code. Filed a feature request on the claude-code GitHub repo suggesting a structured testing programme for power users with non-standard workflows. Posted the link as a follow-up comment.
Not expecting anything. But the door is open.
X52 Pro Configurator — vJoy Auto-Fix
The one that's been annoying me for months. Every reboot, vJoy drops. Every time, I had to manually re-enable it, recreate the device, sometimes reboot again.
Built the fix into the configurator. On startup, if vJoy isn't responding, it automatically enables the driver, creates the device with the correct X52 layout, restarts the vJoy service (no reboot needed), and renames it to "X52 HOTAS Reconfig" in Game Controllers. One UAC prompt, runs in the background, done.
Full write-up: X52 Pro Configurator: No More Reboots
The Thread
Days like this matter. Not because any single thing is groundbreaking, but because all of it shipped. The about page isn't a draft. The store isn't a mockup. The vJoy fix isn't a TODO comment. It's all live, all working, all real.
That's the practice. Show up, build, document, push.
More tomorrow.