Personal Projects | Melanie Richards

Lit Tapes
2024 — Playlists compiled from songs referenced in books.

Github repo for Lit Tapes
Product Resources
2023 — A compilation of resources I find useful as a product manager, ingested from a personal database via the Notion API.

Github repo for Product Resources
World Snacks
2022 — A little international snack review site. Created as an excuse to try out Contentful as a headless CMS, and to eat more snacks.

Github repo for World Snacks
What to Draw
2021 — A drawing idea generator, using the Unsplash photo API and Netlify functions.

Writeup for What to Draw Github repo for What to Draw
SEA — Seasons
2021 — Ideas for living more intentionally by the seasons, particularly in the Seattle area.

Writeup for SEA — Seasons Github repo for SEA — Seasons
Crafts blog
2021 — A record of my fiber crafts, sketchbook pages, and other analog projects.

Writeup for Crafts blog
Good Things
2020 — A personal compilation of good sensory things in life, which came particularly in handy during the pandemic.

Writeup for Good Things Github repo for Good Things
Highlights
2017 — A collection of highlights from various books I’ve read, trending quite heavily on mindfulness.

Writeup for Highlights Github repo for Highlights
Bucket List
2017 — Just a list of things I’d like to do someday.

Github repo for Bucket List

Other fun things

Just Build Websites: A list of ideas for sites you can build, to practice web design and dev skills.
Talks: Videos, slides, and demos from technical talks I’ve given.

Archive

HTML5 Accessibility redesign: A new aesthetic for browser test scores on accessible support of HTML5 elements; test result data is owned by individual browser vendors.
Badass Lady Creatives: However unfortunately-named, I ran a blog in 2013–2016 that featured women in design, illustration, photography, web dev, and so on.