Today, as I ponder this monstrosity I’ve begun to build, I’m curious if the pages I’m creating are useful or interesting to anyone. I kind of went off on a password thing, and would like to cover more topics that are a bit more usable. There are many factors of security, and having all the pieces in place can still be bypassed by a mis-click on a website, email, text message, etc…
As for brewing, and tools I’m hoping to add here, there are a couple formulas to calculate ABV, and I’d like to build a calculator on here for that. While there’s a bunch already around the web, having useful tools in one spot I think is important. One formula gets you a quick and easy result, another will provide better accuracy, especially for higher gravity brews, but is also more complex. You can also factor in temperature, which can affect the gravity measurement a bit, so having that value in there to adjust the reading will get you a bit more accuracy.
A recipe tracking sheet would probably be useful also, so I’ll try and build something that people can download, perhaps even make it fillable and cache an online copy here under their account and make them sharable, if they would be open to making their brew-tinkering ideas public for others to try. I think that’s what I’ll work on next… I’ll see if there’s a way to build a page here like that. If I goof it up, or discover I can’t make that happen, I’ll obliterate the site and start over.
Hopefully I’m not ending up deleting and rebuilding, but I’ve done that once so far and if that’s what needs to happen, I’ll at least back things up so I can rebuild the useful stuff.
I have a friend that’s pretty good with building website stuff. Myself? meh…. I took some CSS and HTML classes, and I have poked around at this stuff before, though WP is quite easy to put something clean and simple together. If this goes nowhere, it won’t break my heart, but I know if I can build something interesting enough for enough people, maybe I can make a tiny dent in the web.
So… Here I am… Let’s see what I can build…