16Channels Blog
LiveThe channel that holds the channels
Overview
16Channels is the public home for James's software projects — part portfolio, part development journal, part launchpad for subdomain-hosted apps. This channel tracks the site's own evolution: design passes, infrastructure decisions, and features.
Features
- •Each channel is a live app or a work in progress
- •Keep up with all of my work or just the channels you are interested in
- •This site is has a full custom CMS built from the ground up, not a 3rd part tool
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