Liam Friel

About Me

I’m Liam, a Glasgow based web application developer working in the public sector. I also make and write random things too in my free time.

Side-projects

• Collageify (2019/2022)

  Generates album collages based off of your Spotify listening history, 2 million unique users. (PHP)

• typengu.io (2025)

  Multiplayer typing racing games with cute penguins. (Express, PhaserJS, Socket.IO, React, Postgres)

• Cone Toss (2026)

  3D webgame where you toss a cone onto the head of the Duke of Wellingston Statue in Glasgow. (Babylon.js)

• Following - Trending (2026)

  A custom dynamic feed for Bluesky that recreates the classic Twitter following feed, with diversity of authors to prevent popular accounts dominating the feed. (Bluesky API, Postgres, Express)

Media

'Addictive' Glasgow Duke of Wellington cone toss game developed' - Glasgow Times (2026) - Read more

Writing

Introducing Collageify (again) and the issue of abandoned side projects (2022) - Read more

wp2shell, xss2shell: How WordPress’s future is being challenged by an army of malicious bots and frontier AI models (Medium, 2026) - Read more