I like making simple things. Of course since I'm not the most handy in the real world, most of the simple things I make are made of 1's and 0's. Two things I'm most proud of I did in less than an hour.

The first is the Conan Comeback Clock I created it over my lunch hour the weekend before Conan went off the air. I used code I had orginally written for rescue missions to count down to Easter or Thanksgiving. Since January this page has had 25,897 visitors. If you look at this from a time per visitor perspective the site is very effective.

The second is NTC Vendor Bingo. I built this in response to a tweet from Amy Sample Ward that a bunch of vendors were cold calling her and others. Thanks to jQuery, I was able to set this up in about 1/2 an hour. You can see all the code right there on the page. This page saw a decent spike in visits before the conference and probably got Masterwork name in front of people who would have otherwise missed us.

With each the problem was obvious and the solution straightforward. The reward was not an elegant solution that advanced comuter science, but a simple one that hopefully brought a bit of joy.