diff --git a/src/components/salary-calculator/employee.svelte b/src/components/salary-calculator/employee.svelte
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/src/components/salary-calculator/employee.svelte
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+<script lang="ts">
+	import { createEventDispatcher } from 'svelte';
+
+	export let id: string;
+	export let name: string;
+	export let salary: number;
+	export let count: number;
+
+	const dispatch = createEventDispatcher<{
+		change: { name: string; salary: number; count: number };
+		remove: { id: string };
+	}>();
+
+	function handleChange() {
+		console.log('handleChange', { name, salary, count });
+		dispatch('change', { name, salary, count });
+	}
+
+	function handleRemove() {
+		console.log('handleRemove', { id });
+		dispatch('remove', { id });
+	}
+</script>
+
+<form>
+	<div class="form__field">
+		<label for="name">Job Title</label>
+		<input
+			type="text"
+			placeholder="Junior Software Engineer"
+			bind:value={name}
+			on:input={handleChange}
+		/>
+	</div>
+	<div class="form__field">
+		<label for="name">Salary (Year)</label>
+		<input
+			type="number"
+			step="1"
+			placeholder="30,000"
+			bind:value={salary}
+			on:change={handleChange}
+		/>
+	</div>
+	<div class="form__field">
+		<label for="name"># of them </label>
+		<input
+			type="number"
+			step="1"
+			placeholder="30,000"
+			bind:value={count}
+			on:change={handleChange}
+		/>
+	</div>
+	<button type="button" on:click={handleRemove}> Remove </button>
+</form>
+
+<style>
+	form {
+		display: grid;
+		grid-template-columns: 1fr;
+		row-gap: 8px;
+	}
+
+	.form__field {
+		display: grid;
+		grid-template-columns: 1fr;
+	}
+</style>
diff --git a/src/content/blog/2022-05-22-mcc.md b/src/content/blog/2022-05-22-mcc.md
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index 0000000..a827896
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+---
+title: Meeting Cost Calculator 
+author: Thomas Wilson
+slug: "2022-05-22-mcc"
+date: 2022-05-22T14:48:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+On a recent train from Oxford to London (and back again), I built a litte widget to help calculate the cost of a meeting.  Or at least, the simple cost of the salary of people attending a meeting.
+
+You can find it <a href="/mcc">here</a> on my personal site.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/content/posts.json b/src/content/posts.json
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--- a/src/content/posts.json
+++ b/src/content/posts.json
@@ -1 +1 @@
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Everything else (set-up, tear down, tidying, and side effects) dilutes a ", "slug": "2022-03-02-concentrate-on-concentrated-tests"}, "2020-12-20-how-are-we-going-to-write-about-2020": {"title": "How are we going to write about 2020 from 2022 onwards?", "date": "2020-12-20T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "2020 has been a terrible year in so, so many ways for so, so many people. At the very least, the Covid-19 pandemic has stolen a year from us all. I would say most of us have gone t", "slug": "2020-12-20-how-are-we-going-to-write-about-2020"}, "2020-09-04-things-i-learned-4": {"title": "Things I learned this week #4", "date": "2020-09-04T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **This world**: The Word _Kipple_ is a word invented by SciFi writer Phillip K. Dick, to mean the kind of rubbish/trash that accumulates if humans don't intervene. 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High intensity interval training (HIIT) is a method of training", "slug": "2021-01-23-things-i-learned-24"}, "2020-12-27-things-i-learned-20": {"title": "Things I learned this week #20", "date": "2020-12-27T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "This week's post comes a little lighter, on account of it being Christmas and all. I didn't want to break a streak, but also I want to get back to eating far too much and doing far", "slug": "2020-12-27-things-i-learned-20"}, "2021-05-05-customer-centric-like-a-robot": {"title": "[LinkedIn Post] Being so customer-centric your customers think you\u2019re a robot", "date": "2021-05-05T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "(This is a cross-post of [a short article I wrote on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/being-so-customer-centric-your-customers-think-youre-robot-wilson))\n\nStop me if you\u2019ve", "slug": "2021-05-05-customer-centric-like-a-robot"}, "2020-03-22-why-i-chose-react-native-for-app-in-2020": {"title": "Why I chose React Native to build a new app in 2020", "date": "2020-03-22T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "I am currently in the process of building herabouts - an app that\u2019s like a tour guide, only cooler. Most of my previous engineering work has been web-based (react and vue) because ", "slug": "2020-03-22-why-i-chose-react-native-for-app-in-2020"}, "2020-10-24-writing-for-recipe-cards": {"title": "Tiny thought: Writing for recipe cards", "date": "2020-10-24T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "_Tiny Thoughts_ are little (500 word) essays. They're concise.\n\nI've spent the past three months consciously trying to write and read more. I want to improve my ability to refine a", "slug": "2020-10-24-writing-for-recipe-cards"}, "2021-04-12-dash-cycle-01-reorganising": {"title": "Dash Cycle #01: (re)organising", "date": "2021-04-12T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "I'm building DashDot: a privacy-focused interval training app that doesn't suck. The second cycle of development lasted March 15 - April 12. 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I\u2019m 28 years old, currently based in London, England, and I design and build software for a living through my smal", "slug": "2020-02-24-hereabouts-devblog-1"}, "2020-09-20-interviewing-experience-2020": {"title": "My experience finding a new job as a software engineer in summer of 2020", "date": "2020-09-20T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "In late summer of 2020 I moved from freelance software engineer to a full-time position. 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The women (or alleged women, we don't ", "slug": "2021-02-13-things-i-learned-27"}, "2020-03-15-ugly-but-functional-ux-design": {"title": "Kickstarting UX Design with ugly working documents: Screens, Components, Actions, and State.", "date": "2020-03-15T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "UX design resists standardisation or templates. It can\u2019t be a one-size-fits-all approach, and the nature of the product, audience, and production team all mean that something diffe", "slug": "2020-03-15-ugly-but-functional-ux-design"}, "2020-08-07-where-i-go-for-ui-inspiration": {"title": "Where I go for UI inspiration", "date": "2020-08-07T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Like anybody who makes interfaces for apps/websites, I spent a lot of time looking at _Design Inspiration_ (read: UIs, real or imaginary, made by other people). 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I started the month by talking at two tech events in London, meaning I arrived into the full body of the month having p", "slug": "culture-i-devoured-autumn-2019"}, "2021-04-02-things-i-learned-34": {"title": "Things I learned this week #34", "date": "2021-04-02T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "# Things I Learned #34\n\nWe\u2019ve made it to the Easter weekend. Spring has arrived here in London, which is to say it was 20 degrees C earlier this week and this morning it was 0, win", "slug": "2021-04-02-things-i-learned-34"}, "2021-07-08-out-of-office": {"title": "Out of office: summer 2021", "date": "2021-07-08T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Summer has always been a time for _doing_ and living.  It doesn't feel right to force at least one piece of writing out of my brain every week.  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The Mediterranean is warm, and you'd work up quite the th", "slug": "2020-11-13-things-i-learned-14"}, "2021-01-15-things-i-learned-23": {"title": "Things I learned this week #23", "date": "2021-01-15T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **These underwater drawings**: Go back to 1860s and ask someone what coral reefs, or fish, or literally any marine life looked like. Go on. I bet they'd tell you they had no idea", "slug": "2021-01-15-things-i-learned-23"}, "2020-12-11-things-i-learned-18": {"title": "Things I learned this week #18", "date": "2020-12-11T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "I took a four day week last week, so managed to spend this week with all the energy that only a 3-day weekend can give you. That said, I've found myself incredibly busy this week. 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Ping Pong is actually a trademarked name, but it's not uncommon to call a thing by a ", "slug": "2020-09-11-things-i-learned-5"}, "2021-06-13-infinite-coast-of-problem-solving": {"title": "The infinite coast of problem solving", "date": "2021-06-13T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "I\u2019m currently designing and building the lexicon, ambitiously explained as \u201cthe most useful language learning resources in the world\u201d.\n\nThe problem is that there\u2019s a lot involved i", "slug": "2021-06-13-infinite-coast-of-problem-solving"}, "2021-10-25-the-handbrake-has-come-off": {"title": "It feels like the handbrake has come off", "date": "2021-10-25T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Over the past two months I have inherited leadership of an engineering team I have worked in for the last twelve months.  In the last two weeks I've seen the speed of development g", "slug": "2021-10-25-the-handbrake-has-come-off"}, "2020-08-14-things-i-learned-1": {"title": "Things I learned this week #1", "date": "2020-08-14T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **This tidbit about a literary villa**: Over three days in June of 1816 at a villa in Geneva, Mary Shelley started writing _Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus_ and John Willi", "slug": "2020-08-14-things-i-learned-1"}, "2022-04-03-vibe-check-02": {"title": "Vibe Check #2: GTD in the face of weathering and predators", "date": "2022-04-03T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "March 2022 has been a good month for me.  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For a while ", "slug": "2020-11-23-on-the-separation-of-design-and-engineering"}, "2021-08-11-things-i-learned-36": {"title": "Things I learned this week #36", "date": "2021-04-16T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "The cold snap in London is teasing us. Is it over? hopefully. But it will still be ~1C at night so don\u2019t get too complacent. Still, the days already feel long. I can hardly remembe", "slug": "2021-08-11-things-i-learned-36"}, "2021-05-01-things-i-learned-38": {"title": "(Not) Things I learned this week #38", "date": "2021-05-01T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "# (Not) Things I learned this week #38\n\nThis week seems to have really flown by. I\u2019ve decided to take purposeful and intentional time for rest and personal recuperation this week. ", "slug": "2021-05-01-things-i-learned-38"}, "2022-05-06-vibe-check-3": {"title": "Vibe Check #3", "date": "2022-05-06T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Three of the past four weeks have been a four-day work week.  It's been wonderful.  And yet still I'm posting this a week later than I'd like.  The weather has been overcast, but e", "slug": "2022-05-06-vibe-check-3"}, "2021-04-24-things-i-learned-37": {"title": "Things I learned this week #37", "date": "2021-04-24T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "This week I\u2019ve been focusing on perspective and gratitude.  It\u2019s harder than it sounds if you feel things are unfair and not in your favour.  But, to quote about a million throw cu", "slug": "2021-04-24-things-i-learned-37"}, "2020-11-07-things-i-learned-13": {"title": "Things I learned this week #13", "date": "2020-11-07T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "WHAT. A. WEEK. It feels the entire western world has had their eyes on the US presidential election, and it's been exhausting. Not exhausting in the way that the last 12 months hav", "slug": "2020-11-07-things-i-learned-13"}, "2021-03-26-things-i-learned-33": {"title": "Things I learned this week #33", "date": "2021-03-26T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **This cassette revival**: Last year's (2020's) sale of tape cassettes, the 90's mainstay of car sound systems and OG Walkmans (Walkmen?) were the highest they have been since 20", "slug": "2021-03-26-things-i-learned-33"}, "2020-11-20-things-i-learned-15": {"title": "Things I learned this week #15", "date": "2020-11-20T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "\"Isn't it getting dark early ?\" - how I've started at least half of the conversations I've had this week.\n\n- **This thing that spreads like a disease**: Look, I was a germaphobe be", "slug": "2020-11-20-things-i-learned-15"}, "2020-09-28-software-engineering-as-a-craft": {"title": "Software Engineering as a Craft", "date": "2020-09-28T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "A few months ago a prominent figure in the tech and software space was uninvited from a conference[^1]. In an (intentionally humorous) summary of this person, Melissa McEwan wrote ", "slug": "2020-09-28-software-engineering-as-a-craft"}, "2020-09-18-things-i-learned-6": {"title": "Things I learned this week #6", "date": "2020-09-18T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **These ways of thinking**: When we hand over a new problem to our brain there's a lot of things we need to do to solve it. We need to understand the problem and the surrounding/", "slug": "2020-09-18-things-i-learned-6"}, "2020-12-18-things-i-learned-19": {"title": "Things I learned this week #19", "date": "2020-12-18T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **All of these species named after David Attenborough**: The man's a living legend (he's also like 94 - he was a teenager in the 1930s which was _before the second world war_ - t", "slug": "2020-12-18-things-i-learned-19"}, "2020-06-11-deploy-rails-in-render": {"title": "Deploying an MVP Rails App with Render like it's 2020 ", "date": "2020-06-11T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "\ud83d\udcdatl;dr - I used [Render](https://render.com/) to deploy a Rails app and database. It was very easy, very fast, and very modern. Would recommend to everyone.\n\n---\n\nWay back before t", "slug": "2020-06-11-deploy-rails-in-render"}, "2022-03-13-discover-complexity": {"title": "Discover Complexity", "date": "2022-03-13T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Code changes frequently, and good code is able to change easily.  That means that code must be both simple for other humans to interpret (so that the code is changed, not duplicate", "slug": "2022-03-13-discover-complexity"}, "2022-02-04-vibe-check-0": {"title": "Vibe Check #0", "date": "2022-02-04T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "January 2022 was a good month.  It's weird how slow the start of the year feels, until it's over.  The days get longer, and it feels like momentum is returning to my life, which is", "slug": "2022-02-04-vibe-check-0"}, "2020-10-09-things-i-learned-9": {"title": "Things I learned this week #9 (Nobel Prize edition)", "date": "2020-10-09T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "In honour of the announcement of (some of) the 2020 Nobel Prizes, this week's edition contains entirely things I learned when reading about the people and work announced so far. No", "slug": "2020-10-09-things-i-learned-9"}, "2022-04-10-recognise-and-reduce-risk": {"title": "Recognise and reduce risk", "date": "2022-04-10T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Answering and executing the question(s) \"what do we build and how do we build it?\" is an existential challenge for small companies.\n\nWhat you build is probably more important than ", "slug": "2022-04-10-recognise-and-reduce-risk"}, "2021-01-10-an-ode-to-plaintext-notes": {"title": "An ode to note taking with markdown files", "date": "2021-01-10T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "This is based off a _sesh_ (think _lightning talk_, but... cooler?) I gave at [Oxwash](https://www.oxwash.com), where I am a frontend software engineer. I wanted to give an overvie", "slug": "2021-01-10-an-ode-to-plaintext-notes"}, "2021-06-10-weekly-44-thinking-about-conspiracy-theories": {"title": "The Weekly #44: Thinking about Conspiracy Theories", "date": "2021-06-10T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "_The Weekly_ is a series of essays under one thousand words where I write about something I\u2019ve been thinking over the last seven days. This week I want to talk about misinformation", "slug": "2021-06-10-weekly-44-thinking-about-conspiracy-theories"}, "2021-06-27-weekly-45-this-is-an-old-story": {"title": "The Weekly #45: This is an old story", "date": "2021-06-27T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "The Weekly is a series of essays where I write on something I've been thinking about over the last seven days. They're under a thousand words. 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We're at least six months from being slightly", "slug": "2021-01-01-things-i-learned-21"}, "2021-10-11-back-in-office": {"title": "Back in office: summer 2021", "date": "2021-10-11T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "After a year and a half of very new normal, summer 2021 was pretty perfect.  I mean, the weather wasn't summery, being around a lot of strangers (and even friends) felt odd, and th", "slug": "2021-10-11-back-in-office"}, "2021-01-02-yearly-theme-2021": {"title": "2021 Theme: The Year of Discourse", "date": "2021-01-02T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Resolutions are dumb. They're unsustainable and you can fail at them. Humans are just awful at long-term behaviour or thought-pattern change. Instead, I like themes: broad ideas th", "slug": "2021-01-02-yearly-theme-2021"}, "design-resource-free-fonts-from-awwwards": {"title": "Design Resource: Free Fonts from Awwwards (2021)", "date": "2021-01-15T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Awwwards have put out a collection of free (or free-adjacent) fonts. You can find them [here](https://www.awwwards.com/awwwards/collections/free-fonts/).", "slug": "design-resource-free-fonts-from-awwwards"}, "2021-03-20-things-i-learned-32": {"title": "Things I learned this week #32", "date": "2021-03-20T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Following on from International Women's Day last week, news of Sarah Everard's body being discovered broke on the 10th of March, a week after she went missing from Clapham, London.", "slug": "2021-03-20-things-i-learned-32"}, "2020-11-01-js-runtimes-and-engines": {"title": "Why are you like this JavaScript? 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As you would expect, the blue whale has the largest mammar", "slug": "2020-10-31-things-i-learned-12"}, "2021-02-26-things-i-learned-29": {"title": "Things I learned this week #29", "date": "2021-02-26T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **This lineage of cats**: Chartwell House, in Kent, England, was the home of Winston Churchill. It's now owned and operated by the National Trust, a British institution, allowing", "slug": "2021-02-26-things-i-learned-29"}, "2020-11-27-things-i-learned-16": {"title": "Things I learned this week #16", "date": "2020-11-27T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **These Tattoos**: In the late 1880s, a man called Sutherland Macdonald became the UK's first professioanl tattoo artist. 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[source](https", "slug": "2020-09-04-things-i-learned-4"}, "2021-01-09-things-i-learned-22": {"title": "Things I learned this week #22", "date": "2021-01-09T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "This week the UK Government has brought us _Lockdown The Third_, a threequel in the franchise after the straight-to-TV movie that was the November lockdown. Cases, deaths, and hosp", "slug": "2021-01-09-things-i-learned-22"}, "2020-10-02-things-i-learned-8": {"title": "Things I learned this week #8", "date": "2020-10-02T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "This week's _Things I learned_ is a little shorter than usual because I've been moving house. I hate every part of moving house. Anyway, enough excuses, here are some of the things", "slug": "2020-10-02-things-i-learned-8"}, "2020-10-10-five-useful-questions-new-job": {"title": "Five (and a bit) useful questions to answer in your first week at a new job", "date": "2020-10-10T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "I've just had my first week at a new job (I'm now a frontend software engineer at [Oxwash](https://www.oxwash)), which is cool. I find first weeks intense because I have to balance", "slug": "2020-10-10-five-useful-questions-new-job"}, "2021-01-23-things-i-learned-24": {"title": "Things I learned this week #24", "date": "2021-01-23T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **This fitness research**: I've long been a fan of interval training to help improve my running and cycling speed. High intensity interval training (HIIT) is a method of training", "slug": "2021-01-23-things-i-learned-24"}, "2020-12-27-things-i-learned-20": {"title": "Things I learned this week #20", "date": "2020-12-27T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "This week's post comes a little lighter, on account of it being Christmas and all. 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Most of my previous engineering work has been web-based (react and vue) because ", "slug": "2020-03-22-why-i-chose-react-native-for-app-in-2020"}, "2020-10-24-writing-for-recipe-cards": {"title": "Tiny thought: Writing for recipe cards", "date": "2020-10-24T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "_Tiny Thoughts_ are little (500 word) essays. They're concise.\n\nI've spent the past three months consciously trying to write and read more. I want to improve my ability to refine a", "slug": "2020-10-24-writing-for-recipe-cards"}, "2021-04-12-dash-cycle-01-reorganising": {"title": "Dash Cycle #01: (re)organising", "date": "2021-04-12T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "I'm building DashDot: a privacy-focused interval training app that doesn't suck. The second cycle of development lasted March 15 - April 12. 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They're concise.\n\nHypothesis: Frontend engineering cannot exist in isolation from backend technologies.\n\nWhat sparked this: Thinking a", "slug": "2021-01-31-frontend-is-fullstack"}, "2022-04-17-why-is-this-pr-so-big": {"title": "'How did this PR get so big?' \u2013 Advice for separating aesthetic and functional changes in code", "date": "2022-04-17T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "A few weeks ago I was working on some change in our codebase.  One thing lead to another and the diff I submitted spanned eighty-some files, and over a thousand lines of modified c", "slug": "2022-04-17-why-is-this-pr-so-big"}, "2021-04-08-just-enough-software-design": {"title": "How much is just-enough system design for new apps and software?", "date": "2021-04-08T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "I wrote this because of a paralysing problem in coding: how much should I design my new app\u2019s architecture before I dive into code if I can only learn about my app\u2019s architecture b", "slug": "2021-04-08-just-enough-software-design"}, "2021-02-12-website-design-2-0-changelog": {"title": "Website Design 2.0 Changelog", "date": "2021-02-12T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "I've redesigned the blog. This post just covers the technical whats and hows of it all.\n\n## What's changed ?\n\n- **New Dark theme colours**: Look around. Look at this dark purply-gr", "slug": "2021-02-12-website-design-2-0-changelog"}, "2021-05-21-productivity-is-a-daily-ritual": {"title": "The Weekly #41: Productivity is a daily ritual", "date": "2021-05-21T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "The Weekly is a 1000-word-or-less essay on something I\u2019ve been thinking this week. Let\u2019s talk about how productivity is (basically) a scam and how daily and weekly rituals are the ", "slug": "2021-05-21-productivity-is-a-daily-ritual"}, "2021-01-29-things-i-learned-25": {"title": "Things I learned this week #25", "date": "2021-01-29T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **This etymology**: The word \"peculiar\" has come to mean odd or unique, so obviously its Latin root word (_\u200cpeculium_) means somebody's cattle. Cows were pretty valuable assets b", "slug": "2021-01-29-things-i-learned-25"}, "2021-02-27-github-actions-xcode-tests": {"title": "How to run Xcode tests for a SwiftUI iOS codebase with GitHub Actions", "date": "2021-02-27T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Tl;dr\n\n1. Make sure you've got a repo on GitHub.\n2. Make sure you've got at least one set of tests in your Xcode codebase.\n3. Create the file below in `yourproject/.github/workflow", "slug": "2021-02-27-github-actions-xcode-tests"}, "culture-i-devoured-autumn-2019": {"title": "Culture I devoured in Autumn 2019", "date": "2019-10-30T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "This season turned out to be surprisingly busy with culture. I started the month by talking at two tech events in London, meaning I arrived into the full body of the month having p", "slug": "culture-i-devoured-autumn-2019"}, "2022-05-22-mcc": {"title": "Meeting Cost Calculator", "date": "2022-05-22T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "On a recent train from Oxford to London (and back again), I built a litte widget to help calculate the cost of a meeting.  Or at least, the simple cost of the salary of people atte", "slug": "2022-05-22-mcc"}, "2021-04-02-things-i-learned-34": {"title": "Things I learned this week #34", "date": "2021-04-02T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "# Things I Learned #34\n\nWe\u2019ve made it to the Easter weekend. Spring has arrived here in London, which is to say it was 20 degrees C earlier this week and this morning it was 0, win", "slug": "2021-04-02-things-i-learned-34"}, "2021-07-08-out-of-office": {"title": "Out of office: summer 2021", "date": "2021-07-08T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Summer has always been a time for _doing_ and living.  It doesn't feel right to force at least one piece of writing out of my brain every week.  Discipline and routine are useful t", "slug": "2021-07-08-out-of-office"}, "loss-and-ed-2017": {"title": "Loss and my ED\u200a (\u200aED awareness week\u00a02017)", "date": "2017-03-03T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "<aside class=\"medium-note\">\nI originally published this article in 2017 on my Medium blog. As of this update (late 2019), the reading experience on Medium has become increasingly d", "slug": "loss-and-ed-2017"}, "2020-08-23-why-are-you-like-this-javascript": {"title": "Why are you like this, JavaScript? Taking a look at JavaScript's single threaded nature.", "date": "2020-08-23T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Sometimes you hear something so often that you don't really hear it anymore. One of those things for me is words to the effect of \"How does this JavaScript code even run?\". I choos", "slug": "2020-08-23-why-are-you-like-this-javascript"}, "2020-02-20-opinions-from-48hr-on-clubhouse": {"title": "Opinions from 48hr on Clubhouse", "date": "2021-02-20T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Clubhouse is a new audio social network platform for iOS. It's basically like having a moderated voice-only Zoom call. The entire network is largely three entities:\n\n1. **Users**: ", "slug": "2020-02-20-opinions-from-48hr-on-clubhouse"}, "2020-11-13-things-i-learned-14": {"title": "Things I learned this week #14", "date": "2020-11-13T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Happy Friday 13th. I hope it's spooky and magical.\n\n- **This Roman Beverage**: I'd imagine the Romans were pretty thirsty. The Mediterranean is warm, and you'd work up quite the th", "slug": "2020-11-13-things-i-learned-14"}, "2021-01-15-things-i-learned-23": {"title": "Things I learned this week #23", "date": "2021-01-15T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **These underwater drawings**: Go back to 1860s and ask someone what coral reefs, or fish, or literally any marine life looked like. Go on. I bet they'd tell you they had no idea", "slug": "2021-01-15-things-i-learned-23"}, "2020-12-11-things-i-learned-18": {"title": "Things I learned this week #18", "date": "2020-12-11T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "I took a four day week last week, so managed to spend this week with all the energy that only a 3-day weekend can give you. That said, I've found myself incredibly busy this week. ", "slug": "2020-12-11-things-i-learned-18"}, "2021-02-17-closures-in-swift": {"title": "Swift Closures: Inline functions explained by a web developer", "date": "2021-02-17T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Hi, I'm Thomas. I'm a frontend engineer who's learning swift. Let's talk about _closures_ in Swift from a very (very) introductory level. I'm assuming you've got some familiarity w", "slug": "2021-02-17-closures-in-swift"}, "moving-from-nuxt-to-gatsbyjs": {"title": "Moving my personal site to Gatsby", "date": "2019-12-31T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "A few weeks ago I was having a conversation with someone about modern web design, and we spoke about web fonts and variable fonts. In my experience, people who work in software dev", "slug": "moving-from-nuxt-to-gatsbyjs"}, "introducing-eating-anthology": {"title": "Re-publishing my writing on my experiences with food and eating disorders", "date": "2020-02-20T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "**tl;dr** - I have moved the writing I have created on my experiences with eating disorders to this site (and off of Medium.). You can find them [here](/eating-anthology).\n\nFor at ", "slug": "introducing-eating-anthology"}, "2020-08-21-things-i-learned-3": {"title": "Things I learned this week #3", "date": "2020-08-28T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **This medieval lingo**: Have you ever wondered how to refer to the area where a good-old-fashioned joust took place? You know, jousts? Two men, two horses, two giant poles, and ", "slug": "2020-08-21-things-i-learned-3"}, "2021-05-15-weekly-40": {"title": "The Weekly #40: Garlic & The Ancients", "date": "2021-05-15T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Okay let\u2019s learn us how over the past 3000 years garlic has been espoused by healers and spiritual leaders to ward off disease and evil. It\u2019ll take you down a rabbit hole of medica", "slug": "2021-05-15-weekly-40"}, "2021-03-03-things-i-learned-30": {"title": "Things I learned this week #30", "date": "2021-03-03T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **These no longer fictional bridges**: You know the bridges on the Euro notes? There are seven of them total (notes and bridges) which represent seven different architectural sty", "slug": "2021-03-03-things-i-learned-30"}, "2021-05-28-the-weekly-42-metaphors-for-design": {"title": "The Weekly #42: Metaphors for Design - Brutalist Architecture, Gardens, and Video Games", "date": "2021-05-28T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "_The Weekly_ is a weekly essay on something I\u2019ve been thinking about in the last seven days. They\u2019re less than a thousand words long. This week I want to talk about the metaphors w", "slug": "2021-05-28-the-weekly-42-metaphors-for-design"}, "2021-02-06-things-i-learned-26": {"title": "Things I learned this week #26", "date": "2021-02-06T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **This heartening fact**: Altruism, more specifically altruistic behaviour, is an action done (at cost) by an individual for the benefit of another individual. Why do humans, and", "slug": "2021-02-06-things-i-learned-26"}, "2020-09-11-things-i-learned-5": {"title": "Things I Learned this week #5", "date": "2020-09-11T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **This missed opportunity to name something**: Ping Pong is a weird name for a sport, right? Ping Pong is actually a trademarked name, but it's not uncommon to call a thing by a ", "slug": "2020-09-11-things-i-learned-5"}, "2021-06-13-infinite-coast-of-problem-solving": {"title": "The infinite coast of problem solving", "date": "2021-06-13T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "I\u2019m currently designing and building the lexicon, ambitiously explained as \u201cthe most useful language learning resources in the world\u201d.\n\nThe problem is that there\u2019s a lot involved i", "slug": "2021-06-13-infinite-coast-of-problem-solving"}, "2021-10-25-the-handbrake-has-come-off": {"title": "It feels like the handbrake has come off", "date": "2021-10-25T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Over the past two months I have inherited leadership of an engineering team I have worked in for the last twelve months.  In the last two weeks I've seen the speed of development g", "slug": "2021-10-25-the-handbrake-has-come-off"}, "2020-08-14-things-i-learned-1": {"title": "Things I learned this week #1", "date": "2020-08-14T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **This tidbit about a literary villa**: Over three days in June of 1816 at a villa in Geneva, Mary Shelley started writing _Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus_ and John Willi", "slug": "2020-08-14-things-i-learned-1"}, "2022-04-03-vibe-check-02": {"title": "Vibe Check #2: GTD in the face of weathering and predators", "date": "2022-04-03T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "March 2022 has been a good month for me.  December-January saw me feeling very mentally strained, in retrospect because we're seeing the remnants of covid restrictions lift. person", "slug": "2022-04-03-vibe-check-02"}, "2021-12-12-build-the-platform-ship-the-product": {"title": "Ship the product, build the platform", "date": "2021-12-12T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Imagine you're part of a new-ish, in-house engineering team working with a legacy codebase.  How do you extend this codebase into new features while discovering and fixing Dark Pat", "slug": "2021-12-12-build-the-platform-ship-the-product"}, "2020-11-23-on-the-separation-of-design-and-engineering": {"title": "Tiny thought: On the separation of design and engineering", "date": "2020-11-23T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "_Tiny Thoughts_ are little (500 word) essays. They're concise.\n\nI make user interfaces, and I often participate in, or lead, the process of designing these interfaces. For a while ", "slug": "2020-11-23-on-the-separation-of-design-and-engineering"}, "2021-08-11-things-i-learned-36": {"title": "Things I learned this week #36", "date": "2021-04-16T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "The cold snap in London is teasing us. Is it over? hopefully. But it will still be ~1C at night so don\u2019t get too complacent. Still, the days already feel long. I can hardly remembe", "slug": "2021-08-11-things-i-learned-36"}, "2021-05-01-things-i-learned-38": {"title": "(Not) Things I learned this week #38", "date": "2021-05-01T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "# (Not) Things I learned this week #38\n\nThis week seems to have really flown by. I\u2019ve decided to take purposeful and intentional time for rest and personal recuperation this week. ", "slug": "2021-05-01-things-i-learned-38"}, "2022-05-06-vibe-check-3": {"title": "Vibe Check #3", "date": "2022-05-06T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Three of the past four weeks have been a four-day work week.  It's been wonderful.  And yet still I'm posting this a week later than I'd like.  The weather has been overcast, but e", "slug": "2022-05-06-vibe-check-3"}, "2021-04-24-things-i-learned-37": {"title": "Things I learned this week #37", "date": "2021-04-24T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "This week I\u2019ve been focusing on perspective and gratitude.  It\u2019s harder than it sounds if you feel things are unfair and not in your favour.  But, to quote about a million throw cu", "slug": "2021-04-24-things-i-learned-37"}, "2020-11-07-things-i-learned-13": {"title": "Things I learned this week #13", "date": "2020-11-07T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "WHAT. A. WEEK. It feels the entire western world has had their eyes on the US presidential election, and it's been exhausting. Not exhausting in the way that the last 12 months hav", "slug": "2020-11-07-things-i-learned-13"}, "2021-03-26-things-i-learned-33": {"title": "Things I learned this week #33", "date": "2021-03-26T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **This cassette revival**: Last year's (2020's) sale of tape cassettes, the 90's mainstay of car sound systems and OG Walkmans (Walkmen?) were the highest they have been since 20", "slug": "2021-03-26-things-i-learned-33"}, "2020-11-20-things-i-learned-15": {"title": "Things I learned this week #15", "date": "2020-11-20T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "\"Isn't it getting dark early ?\" - how I've started at least half of the conversations I've had this week.\n\n- **This thing that spreads like a disease**: Look, I was a germaphobe be", "slug": "2020-11-20-things-i-learned-15"}, "2020-09-28-software-engineering-as-a-craft": {"title": "Software Engineering as a Craft", "date": "2020-09-28T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "A few months ago a prominent figure in the tech and software space was uninvited from a conference[^1]. In an (intentionally humorous) summary of this person, Melissa McEwan wrote ", "slug": "2020-09-28-software-engineering-as-a-craft"}, "2020-09-18-things-i-learned-6": {"title": "Things I learned this week #6", "date": "2020-09-18T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **These ways of thinking**: When we hand over a new problem to our brain there's a lot of things we need to do to solve it. We need to understand the problem and the surrounding/", "slug": "2020-09-18-things-i-learned-6"}, "2020-12-18-things-i-learned-19": {"title": "Things I learned this week #19", "date": "2020-12-18T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "- **All of these species named after David Attenborough**: The man's a living legend (he's also like 94 - he was a teenager in the 1930s which was _before the second world war_ - t", "slug": "2020-12-18-things-i-learned-19"}, "2020-06-11-deploy-rails-in-render": {"title": "Deploying an MVP Rails App with Render like it's 2020 ", "date": "2020-06-11T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "\ud83d\udcdatl;dr - I used [Render](https://render.com/) to deploy a Rails app and database. It was very easy, very fast, and very modern. Would recommend to everyone.\n\n---\n\nWay back before t", "slug": "2020-06-11-deploy-rails-in-render"}, "2022-03-13-discover-complexity": {"title": "Discover Complexity", "date": "2022-03-13T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Code changes frequently, and good code is able to change easily.  That means that code must be both simple for other humans to interpret (so that the code is changed, not duplicate", "slug": "2022-03-13-discover-complexity"}, "2022-02-04-vibe-check-0": {"title": "Vibe Check #0", "date": "2022-02-04T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "January 2022 was a good month.  It's weird how slow the start of the year feels, until it's over.  The days get longer, and it feels like momentum is returning to my life, which is", "slug": "2022-02-04-vibe-check-0"}, "2020-10-09-things-i-learned-9": {"title": "Things I learned this week #9 (Nobel Prize edition)", "date": "2020-10-09T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "In honour of the announcement of (some of) the 2020 Nobel Prizes, this week's edition contains entirely things I learned when reading about the people and work announced so far. No", "slug": "2020-10-09-things-i-learned-9"}, "2022-04-10-recognise-and-reduce-risk": {"title": "Recognise and reduce risk", "date": "2022-04-10T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Answering and executing the question(s) \"what do we build and how do we build it?\" is an existential challenge for small companies.\n\nWhat you build is probably more important than ", "slug": "2022-04-10-recognise-and-reduce-risk"}, "2021-01-10-an-ode-to-plaintext-notes": {"title": "An ode to note taking with markdown files", "date": "2021-01-10T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "This is based off a _sesh_ (think _lightning talk_, but... cooler?) I gave at [Oxwash](https://www.oxwash.com), where I am a frontend software engineer. I wanted to give an overvie", "slug": "2021-01-10-an-ode-to-plaintext-notes"}, "2021-06-10-weekly-44-thinking-about-conspiracy-theories": {"title": "The Weekly #44: Thinking about Conspiracy Theories", "date": "2021-06-10T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "_The Weekly_ is a series of essays under one thousand words where I write about something I\u2019ve been thinking over the last seven days. This week I want to talk about misinformation", "slug": "2021-06-10-weekly-44-thinking-about-conspiracy-theories"}, "2021-06-27-weekly-45-this-is-an-old-story": {"title": "The Weekly #45: This is an old story", "date": "2021-06-27T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "The Weekly is a series of essays where I write on something I've been thinking about over the last seven days. They're under a thousand words. There's some stuff going on in my pro", "slug": "2021-06-27-weekly-45-this-is-an-old-story"}, "2021-03-21-dash-cycle-00-the-beginning": {"title": "Dash Cycle #00 - The Beginning", "date": "2021-03-21T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Hello. I'm building an app called Dash Dot, it's a native iOS app for interval training that is a) well-designed, and b) privacy- and utility-focused. This post covers the first (a", "slug": "2021-03-21-dash-cycle-00-the-beginning"}, "2021-01-01-things-i-learned-21": {"title": "Things I learned this week #21", "date": "2021-01-01T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Happy New Year \ud83c\udf8a\ud83e\udd73\ud83c\udf7e It's been one hell of a ride, 2020, and I hope that I never know another year like you. This has been quite enough. We're at least six months from being slightly", "slug": "2021-01-01-things-i-learned-21"}, "2021-10-11-back-in-office": {"title": "Back in office: summer 2021", "date": "2021-10-11T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "After a year and a half of very new normal, summer 2021 was pretty perfect.  I mean, the weather wasn't summery, being around a lot of strangers (and even friends) felt odd, and th", "slug": "2021-10-11-back-in-office"}, "2021-01-02-yearly-theme-2021": {"title": "2021 Theme: The Year of Discourse", "date": "2021-01-02T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Resolutions are dumb. They're unsustainable and you can fail at them. Humans are just awful at long-term behaviour or thought-pattern change. Instead, I like themes: broad ideas th", "slug": "2021-01-02-yearly-theme-2021"}, "design-resource-free-fonts-from-awwwards": {"title": "Design Resource: Free Fonts from Awwwards (2021)", "date": "2021-01-15T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Awwwards have put out a collection of free (or free-adjacent) fonts. You can find them [here](https://www.awwwards.com/awwwards/collections/free-fonts/).", "slug": "design-resource-free-fonts-from-awwwards"}, "2021-03-20-things-i-learned-32": {"title": "Things I learned this week #32", "date": "2021-03-20T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "Following on from International Women's Day last week, news of Sarah Everard's body being discovered broke on the 10th of March, a week after she went missing from Clapham, London.", "slug": "2021-03-20-things-i-learned-32"}, "2020-11-01-js-runtimes-and-engines": {"title": "Why are you like this JavaScript? JavaScript Runtimes and Engines", "date": "2020-11-01T00:00:00", "book_review": true, "preview": "Sometimes you keep hearing words but you're not actually sure what they mean, but you're too afraid to ask and keep forgetting to Google it. For me, two of those phrases have been ", "slug": "2020-11-01-js-runtimes-and-engines"}, "what-and-why-use-css-in-js": {"title": "What is CSS-in-JS and why do people keep using it?", "date": "2019-09-20T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "The elders tell us of a time where you would build websites by literally writing your `.html` files. If you wanted to add some styles, you\u2019d write them in a `.css` file and then `<", "slug": "what-and-why-use-css-in-js"}, "2020-10-20-mental-frameworks-in-design-engineering": {"title": "Think in Frameworks, build with Libraries - Thinking about CSS in Web Development", "date": "2020-10-21T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "I'm a few weeks into starting a new job as a frontend software engineer, and I've been moving around our (Angular) codebases to make a few smaller changes, and bump a number of our", "slug": "2020-10-20-mental-frameworks-in-design-engineering"}, "2020-05-31-unicorns": {"title": "I don't want to be a unicorn \ud83e\udd84, an engineer or a designer - I just want to build things better", "date": "2020-05-31T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "I like building software, or parts of software, which are visual and interactive. I do not particularly enjoy the more abstract, very important, areas like technical optimisation, ", "slug": "2020-05-31-unicorns"}, "2016-eating-disorder-awareness-week": {"title": "My eating disorder was dangerous because it was\u00a0powerful (feat. hip hop\u00a0lyrics.)", "date": "2019-02-28T00:00:00", "book_review": false, "preview": "<aside class=\"medium-note\">\nI originally published this article in 2017 on my Medium blog. As of this update (late 2019), the reading experience on Medium has become increasingly d", "slug": "2016-eating-disorder-awareness-week"}}
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+<script lang="ts">
+	import { onDestroy, onMount } from 'svelte';
+	import Employee from '../components/salary-calculator/employee.svelte';
+
+	type Employee = {
+		id: string;
+		name: string;
+		salary: number;
+		count: number;
+	};
+
+	function makeId(): string {
+		return (
+			Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 15) + Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 15)
+		);
+	}
+
+	function makeRandomJobTitle(): string {
+		const randomJobNames = [
+			'Junior Software Engineer',
+			'Finance Associate',
+			'Growth Marketeer',
+			'Customer Support',
+			'Data Scientist',
+			'Logistics Manager',
+			'General Manager',
+			'Process Manager',
+			'Head of Department'
+		];
+
+		const index = Math.floor(Math.random() * randomJobNames.length);
+		return randomJobNames[index];
+	}
+
+	function makeRandomSalary(): number {
+		const b = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10);
+		return 5_000 * b;
+	}
+
+	function makeEmployee(salaryOverride?: number): Employee {
+		return {
+			id: makeId(),
+			name: makeRandomJobTitle(),
+			salary: salaryOverride ?? makeRandomSalary(),
+			count: 1
+		};
+	}
+
+	let INITIAL_SALARY = makeRandomSalary();
+	let employees: Employee[] = [makeEmployee(INITIAL_SALARY)];
+
+	let totalCost = 0;
+
+	let averageAnnualSalary = INITIAL_SALARY;
+	let salaryCostPerMinute = annualSalaryToPerMinuteCost(INITIAL_SALARY);
+	let totalNumberOfEmployees = 2;
+	let secondsElapsed = 0;
+	let intervalRef;
+
+	let currency: 'GBP' | 'USD' = 'GBP';
+	let salaryCalculationMethod: 'average' | 'individual' = 'average';
+
+	function handleEmployeeChange(employeeId: string) {
+		return function (event: CustomEvent) {
+			employees = employees.map(({ id, ...rest }) => {
+				if (id === employeeId) {
+					return { ...event.detail, id };
+				}
+
+				return { id, ...rest };
+			});
+			totalNumberOfEmployees = getNumberOfEmployees(employees);
+			salaryCostPerMinute = allEmployeesSalaryToPerMinuteCost(employees);
+		};
+	}
+
+	function handleEmployeeRemove(id: string) {
+		return function () {
+			employees = employees.filter(({ id: employeeId }) => employeeId !== id);
+			totalNumberOfEmployees = getNumberOfEmployees(employees);
+			salaryCostPerMinute = allEmployeesSalaryToPerMinuteCost(employees);
+		};
+	}
+
+	function handleSecondElapsed() {
+		secondsElapsed++;
+	}
+
+	function resetInterval() {
+		intervalRef = setInterval(handleSecondElapsed, 1000);
+	}
+
+	function reset() {
+		secondsElapsed = 0;
+		if (intervalRef) {
+			clearInterval(intervalRef);
+		} else {
+			resetInterval();
+		}
+	}
+
+	function stop() {
+		clearInterval(intervalRef);
+	}
+
+	function addEmployee() {
+		employees = [...employees, makeEmployee()];
+		totalNumberOfEmployees = getNumberOfEmployees(employees);
+		salaryCostPerMinute = allEmployeesSalaryToPerMinuteCost(employees);
+	}
+
+	function handleAverageMethodChanged(method: 'average' | 'individual') {
+		return () => {
+			salaryCalculationMethod = method;
+
+			secondsElapsed = 0;
+			if (method === 'average') {
+				salaryCostPerMinute = annualSalaryToPerMinuteCost(averageAnnualSalary);
+			} else if (method === 'individual') {
+				salaryCostPerMinute = allEmployeesSalaryToPerMinuteCost(employees);
+				totalNumberOfEmployees = getNumberOfEmployees(employees);
+			}
+		};
+	}
+
+	function getNumberOfEmployees(employees: Employee[]): number {
+		return employees.reduce((runningCount, employee) => {
+			return runningCount + employee.count;
+		}, 0);
+	}
+
+	function handleAverageAnnualSalaryChange() {
+		salaryCostPerMinute = annualSalaryToPerMinuteCost(averageAnnualSalary);
+	}
+
+	function annualSalaryToPerMinuteCost(annualSalary: number) {
+		const minutesInHour = 60;
+		const workingDaysInYear = 48 * 5;
+		const hoursInWorkingDay = 8;
+		return annualSalary / workingDaysInYear / hoursInWorkingDay / minutesInHour;
+	}
+
+	function allEmployeesSalaryToPerMinuteCost(employees: Employee[]) {
+		return employees.reduce((acc, employee) => {
+			return acc + annualSalaryToPerMinuteCost(employee.salary);
+		}, 0);
+	}
+
+	function formatCurrency(amount: number, currency: 'GBP' | 'USD') {
+		return `${currency === 'GBP' ? '£' : '$'}${amount.toFixed(2)}`;
+	}
+
+	function formatSecondsToMinutes(seconds: number) {
+		const minutes = Math.floor(seconds / 60);
+		const secondsRemaining = seconds % 60;
+		return `${minutes}:${secondsRemaining < 10 ? '0' : ''}${secondsRemaining}`;
+	}
+
+	onMount(() => {});
+
+	onDestroy(() => {
+		clearInterval(intervalRef);
+	});
+
+	$: totalCost = (secondsElapsed / 60) * salaryCostPerMinute * totalNumberOfEmployees;
+	$: totalCostPerMinute = (salaryCostPerMinute * totalNumberOfEmployees).toFixed(2);
+
+	// TODO: Milestones in cost, e.g. price of a kit kat chunky, price of X
+</script>
+
+<svelte:head>
+	<title>Meeting Cost Calculator</title>
+	<meta
+		name="description"
+		content="Calculate the cost of a meeting, or at least the salaries of people attending a meeting."
+	/>
+	<meta name="twitter:card" content="https://www.thomaswilson.xyz/meeting-cost-calculator.png" />
+	<meta name="twitter:site" content="@tjwilson92" />
+	<meta name="twitter:title" content="Meeting Cost Calculator" />
+	<meta
+		name="twitter:description"
+		content="Calculate the cost of a meeting, or at least the salaries of people attending a meeting."
+	/>
+	<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://www.thomaswilson.xyz/meeting-cost-calculator.png" />
+	<meta name="twitter:image:alt" content="Meeting Cost Calculator" />
+
+	<meta property="og:title" content="Meeting Cost Calculator" />
+	<meta
+		property="og:description"
+		content="Calculate the cost of a meeting, or at least the salaries of people attending a meeting."
+	/>
+	<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.thomaswilson.xyz/meeting-cost-calculator.png" />
+	<meta property="og:image:alt" content="Meeting Cost Calculator" />
+	<meta property="og:url" content="https://www.thomaswilson.xyz/mcc" />
+	<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
+	<meta property="og:site_name" content="Thomas Wilson" />
+	<meta property="og:locale" content="en_GB" />
+	<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
+	<meta property="og:locale" content="en_GB" />
+</svelte:head>
+
+<main>
+	<section>
+		<h1>Meeting Cost Calculator</h1>
+		<p class="subtitle">Meetings aren't free. See how much you're paying for them.</p>
+	</section>
+
+	<section>
+		<h2>Attendee Salaries are</h2>
+		<div class="modes">
+			<button
+				class="modes__button"
+				class:selected={salaryCalculationMethod == 'average'}
+				on:click={handleAverageMethodChanged('average')}>A simple average</button
+			>
+			<button
+				class="modes__button"
+				class:selected={salaryCalculationMethod == 'individual'}
+				on:click={() => (salaryCalculationMethod = 'individual')}>In different bands</button
+			>
+		</div>
+	</section>
+
+	<section class="form">
+		{#if salaryCalculationMethod == 'average'}
+			<h2>Salary Details</h2>
+			<form class="simple-average-form">
+				<div class="simple-average-form__field">
+					<label for="averageSalary">Average Annual Salary of Attendee</label>
+					<input
+						type="number"
+						step="1"
+						bind:value={averageAnnualSalary}
+						on:input={() => handleAverageAnnualSalaryChange()}
+					/>
+				</div>
+
+				<div class="simple-average-form__field">
+					<label for="totalNumberOfEmployees">Number of Attendees</label>
+					<input type="number" step="1" bind:value={totalNumberOfEmployees} />
+				</div>
+			</form>
+		{:else}
+			<div class="employees-header">
+				<h2>Employee Details</h2>
+				<div class="employee-details-container__button">
+					<button on:click={addEmployee}>Add Employee</button>
+				</div>
+			</div>
+
+			<div class="employees-list" role="list">
+				{#each employees as employee}
+					<Employee
+						id={employee.id}
+						name={employee.name}
+						salary={employee.salary}
+						count={employee.count}
+						on:change={handleEmployeeChange(employee.id)}
+						on:remove={handleEmployeeRemove(employee.id)}
+					/>
+				{/each}
+			</div>
+		{/if}
+	</section>
+
+	<section class="result">
+		<h2>Projected Costs</h2>
+		{#if salaryCalculationMethod === 'average'}
+			<p>
+				With {totalNumberOfEmployees ?? 0}
+				{totalNumberOfEmployees === 1 ? 'Attendee' : 'Attendees'}, each costing aprox. {formatCurrency(
+					salaryCostPerMinute,
+					currency
+				)}
+				per minute, this meeting will cost £{totalCostPerMinute} per minute.
+			</p>
+		{:else}
+			<p>With the following attendees:</p>
+			<ul>
+				{#each employees as employee}
+					<li>{employee.count} x {employee.name} @ {employee.salary}/year</li>
+				{/each}
+			</ul>
+			<p>This meeting will cost £{totalCostPerMinute}/minute</p>
+		{/if}
+
+		<p>This meeting will cost:</p>
+
+		<ul class="duration-list">
+			<li class="duration-list__item">
+				{formatCurrency(salaryCostPerMinute * totalNumberOfEmployees * 30, currency)} for 30 minutes
+			</li>
+			<li class="duration-list__item">
+				{formatCurrency(salaryCostPerMinute * totalNumberOfEmployees * 45, currency)} for 45 minutes
+			</li>
+			<li class="duration-list__item">
+				{formatCurrency(salaryCostPerMinute * totalNumberOfEmployees * 60, currency)} for 60 minutes
+			</li>
+		</ul>
+	</section>
+
+	<section>
+		<h2>Timed Costs</h2>
+
+		<div class="action-buttons">
+			<button
+				on:click={reset}
+				class:start={secondsElapsed === 0}
+				class:start__reset={secondsElapsed > 0}
+			>
+				{#if secondsElapsed === 0}
+					Start the Meeting
+				{:else}
+					Reset
+				{/if}
+			</button>
+			<button on:click={stop} disabled={secondsElapsed === 0} id="pause"
+				>{intervalRef ? 'Pause' : 'Start'}</button
+			>
+		</div>
+		<p class="total-cost">
+			Total cost so far: {formatCurrency(totalCost, currency)} over {formatSecondsToMinutes(
+				secondsElapsed
+			)} <br />
+		</p>
+	</section>
+
+	<section>
+		<h2>About</h2>
+		<p>
+			Made with 🖤 on a tain by <a id="thomas-wilson" href="/">Thomas Wilson</a>
+		</p>
+	</section>
+</main>
+
+<style>
+	main {
+		display: grid;
+		place-content: center;
+		grid-auto-rows: max-content;
+		padding: 32px 0;
+		min-height: 100vh;
+		width: 100vw;
+		background: var(--gray-100);
+	}
+
+	section {
+		max-width: 95vw;
+		width: 600px;
+		height: fit-content;
+		padding: 12px 0px;
+	}
+
+	.subtitle {
+		font-size: 1.5rem;
+		color: var(--gray-700);
+		font-weight: 400;
+		font-family: var(--font-family-sans);
+	}
+
+	.modes {
+		display: grid;
+		grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
+		gap: 4px;
+	}
+
+	.modes__button {
+		border: 1px solid var(--gray-300);
+		border-radius: 4px;
+		padding: 8px 16px;
+		color: var(--gray-700);
+		background: var(--gray-100);
+		cursor: pointer;
+		transition: background-color 0.2s ease-in-out;
+	}
+
+	.modes__button.selected {
+		background: var(--brand-blue);
+		color: white;
+	}
+
+	.employees-header {
+		display: grid;
+		grid-template-columns: 1fr max-content;
+		grid-template-rows: 1fr;
+	}
+
+	.employees-list {
+		display: grid;
+		grid-template-columns: 1fr;
+		gap: 24px;
+	}
+
+	.result p {
+		font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
+	}
+
+	.simple-average-form {
+		display: grid;
+		grid-template-columns: 1fr;
+		row-gap: 8px;
+	}
+
+	.simple-average-form__field {
+		display: grid;
+		grid-template-columns: 1fr;
+	}
+
+	#thomas-wilson {
+		color: var(--brand-orange);
+	}
+
+	.action-buttons {
+		padding: 12px 0px;
+		display: grid;
+		gap: 6px;
+		grid-template-columns: 1fr;
+	}
+
+	.action-buttons button {
+		padding: var(--spacing-md);
+		border-radius: 8px;
+		cursor: pointer;
+	}
+
+	.start {
+		border: 1px solid var(--brand-blue);
+		background: var(--brand-blue);
+		color: white;
+	}
+
+	.start__reset {
+		border: none;
+		background: none;
+		color: var(--gray-700);
+		border: 1px solid var(--gray-500);
+	}
+
+	#pause {
+		color: var(--brand-blue);
+		background: white;
+		border: 1px solid var(--brand-blue);
+		transition: 0.1s ease-in;
+	}
+
+	#pause:disabled {
+		border: none;
+		background: var(--gray-200);
+		color: var(--gray-600);
+		border: 1px solid var(--gray-200);
+		cursor: not-allowed;
+	}
+
+	ul {
+		list-style: disc;
+		padding-left: 24px;
+	}
+
+	li {
+		padding: 2px 0;
+	}
+
+	.total-cost {
+		text-align: center;
+		font-size: 1.2rem;
+		font-weight: 400;
+	}
+</style>
diff --git a/src/styles/thomaswilson.css b/src/styles/thomaswilson.css
index db304b5..45e5425 100644
--- a/src/styles/thomaswilson.css
+++ b/src/styles/thomaswilson.css
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ h6 {
 	color: var(--gray-800);
 	padding-top: 8px;
 	padding-bottom: 6px;
+	line-height: 120%;
 }
 
 p,
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