Joe Fitzsimmons

Side Projects

Crossword Mini Game

I wanted to play a bunch of crossword puzzles without having to click through ads or pay a subscription so I made my own. I used a backtracking algorithm to take a list of words of a certain length and produce a crossword puzzle based on the list.

Lemon Balm Kitchen

Work in progress, more to come on this!

Lemon Balm Kitchen is my personal recipe database. My wife and I use it daily when preparing meals, meal planning, and searching for what to eat. Currently it is full of plant based recipes and am still deciding which direction I'd like to go with this.


Guess the 50 states game

Quick side project using Vue 2.7 to create a game where you have to try to guess all the 50 states in America. This was loosely inspired by the Friends episode where Ross thinks it would be so easy to guess all the 50 states and finds out it's actually harder than expected.


Terminal Vue

Work in progress

I created this to learn a little more about creating a library and to investigate Histoire. The project uses Vite to bundle the component's JavaScript.

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