David Hearl

Predictions — A smarter reboot of the football prediction engine. The goal is to feed scraped stats directly into a database and generate match outcome predictions using trend analysis.

• Scrapes and stores real-world match data
• Suggests likely scores and winners using historical stats
• Still early days, but the foundation is way stronger than before

Survey Tracker — A custom internal tool for MJM Marine used to monitor scan processing progress across multiple ships.

• Includes a dynamic calendar for scheduling upcoming surveys
• Survey planning calculator with estimate forecasting
• Modules for issue tracking, staff training, and priority management

Mortgage Calculator — A simple web tool designed to visualize loan repayment schedules.

• Minimal input fields for loan amount, interest rate, and term
• Automatically generates an amortization chart over time
• Payment breakdown table showing monthly interest and principal

Final Portfolio Project — A full-featured eCommerce website developed as the final portfolio project for my bootcamp.

• Supports product listings, user accounts, shopping cart, and secure checkout
• Stripe integration for seamless payment processing
• Full CRUD functionality for managing products, orders, and user profiles
• Designed with scalability and maintainability in mind

Flag Game — A fast-paced JavaScript quiz where users guess the country from its flag. This was my second portfolio project and a big step up in DOM manipulation and event handling.

• Built entirely with vanilla JavaScript, HTML & CSS
• Responsive design and real-time score tracking
• No frameworks, no Django — just good old-fashioned JS and a few learning curves

Chiropractic Website — My very first website project, built for a local chiropractor whose original site struggled with responsiveness (especially on mobile). I used this as my first portfolio project to learn the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Fully responsive design with service listings, booking info, and a contact form
• Hand-coded from scratch to improve layout, structure, and usability
• While I’m proud of it, it’s definitely showing its age — a rebuild with Django and modern best practices is on my to-do list

My Portfolio — You're already here, so you might as well have a nosey around.

• Built with custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — no templates, no shortcuts
• Dynamic animations, responsive layouts, and a clean dark theme
• Contains my work, background, and a few Easter eggs (depending how hard you look)

Investments — Built to help manage and visualise my personal investment portfolio. The site includes line and pie charts to track growth over time and identify which stocks need rebalancing to maintain portfolio targets.

• Parses monthly CSV statements automatically from Trading 212
• Highlights stocks under or over target allocation
• Tracks changes in value across months with visual aids

Quiz Site — Every year I somehow get stuck making a Christmas quiz. This year I built a platform for it. Users join a group, choose the categories they want, and everyone answers questions in real time.

• Live updating party mode with category selection
• Lightweight front-end with server-side state tracking
• No more PowerPoint quizzes for me, hopefully

Say It Again — A language learning app based on the idea that knowing the 1000 most common words in a language gets you far. Users are quizzed in either direction with a level system that increases difficulty.

• Supports multiple languages with dynamic word sets
• Tracks user progress and word accuracy over time
• The theory? Ambitious. The app? Surprisingly usable

Golf Statistics — A quick tool to visualise my golf swing stats using CSVs exported from my range sessions. It shows distance consistency and club averages with scatter and line plots.

• Charts average, min, and max for each club
• Scatter plots track consistency and outliers
• Data-driven? Yes. Better golfer? Sadly, no.

Connect Four — My third portfolio project, and the first time I really embraced object-oriented programming in Python. A simple terminal-based version of the classic game.

• Fully playable 2-player game in terminal
• Uses classes and methods to keep the code clean
• Great intro to game logic and OOP structure

Server Configurations — Designed to map out my entire homelab, including rack layouts, drive inventories, and filesystem contents. Currently just a skeleton, but it’s my top priority as I transition to a Proxmox cluster and move non-essential data off iCloud.

• Intended to manage drive metadata and physical rack planning
• Eventually will help flag redundant and low-priority data
• Core to keeping my growing setup actually organised

Football Predictions — The original proof-of-concept to show that football can be predictable through data. It taught me how to scrape, but it hit limitations in structure and storage — which led to the creation of the updated Predictions project.

• Scraped stats to analyse matchups
• Highlighted the need for better data architecture
• Still proud of what it taught me about automation

Chiropractic Website 2 — A reboot of my very first site using Materialize CSS for a cleaner design. While it looks better, I’ve since learned a lot more about frontend frameworks and accessibility. It’s been bumped down the list, but still on the radar.

• My first time using Materialize framework
• Responsive design with a modern layout
• A solid upgrade — but not the final version

Canasta — A digital version of a family-favourite card game. I hit some roadblocks (and the UI was, let’s say, "challenging"), but I recently figured out how to fix it and plan to circle back. Side quest: I’d love to build a robot dealer for the real game.

• Turn-based multiplayer logic
• Paused due to complexity and ugly design (being honest)
• Now that I’ve solved the hard bits — it’ll get finished

Inventor Add-In — My first ever coding project. What started as an Excel-driven CAD tweak ended up becoming a full VB.NET add-in for Autodesk Inventor. It's riddled with rookie mistakes, but I’ll never delete it. Big nostalgia points.

• Built with VB6 and upgraded to VB.NET
• Automated CAD model parameter changes
• Messy? Absolutely. But it started everything

Enigma Machine — Inspired by my obsession with WWII history, this web-based cipher simulator replicates the iconic Enigma Machine. The logic is solid, but I hit a wall on the frontend. It’s parked for now, but still one of my favourite ideas.

• Models rotor logic and encryption flow
• Frontend needs love, backend works great
• Plan to finish once other projects settle down

Enigma Machine — This one came from a fascination with cryptography and WWII. I had a go at recreating the iconic cipher machine in the browser, but honestly, the frontend looks rough and the backend doesn’t exist yet. It’s more of a placeholder for a cool idea I want to come back to once I’ve got more time (and energy).

• Started as a challenge to build something historically inspired
• Frontend is clunky and unfinished — backend hasn’t been started
• Definitely a “someday” project I want to get right

Workout Guru (name TBD) — I’ve lost over 13kg and needed a better way to track progress than random Notes entries. This is a Django project to log workouts, view stats, and get exercise suggestions. It’s next on the list, and I’m excited to get it moving.

• Track lifts, reps, and routines in a clean UI
• Tailored suggestions based on history
• Designed to help me stay consistent

Property Finances — As we’ve started buying and renovating properties, spreadsheets just aren’t cutting it. This Django app will help track expenses, rental income, and project ROI. Not started yet, but it's going to save us a ton of admin.

• Multi-property financial tracking
• Integrated breakdown of repairs and income
• A real use-case for Django in property management