Scootercam.net is a weather station and webcam outpost clinging to the edge of Lake Michigan. But mainly, it’s been a personal sandbox for coding and for trying new things with web cams and weather sensors. It’s changed a lot since it started, and it’s gown into a one-off hot mess of code that somehow gets the job done. There’s never been a strategy for Scootercam, until now:
Scootercam’s 2026 Project Plan
- Move from hand-built to WordPress. The entire site will move from custom-coded pages to the WordPress content management system. This makes managing the site possible for people who never, ever want to code.
- The site is a collection of code chunks that do distinct, small chores – like showing an image from a camera and linking it to a video, or dealing with forecast files from NOAA. The chores can be isolated from each other and rebuilt as WordPress Plugins; again, making the site manageable (possibly) for years to come, if it’s done and documented well enough.
- This part of the Scootercam’s website – scootercam.net/notes – is where we’ll build, document, stage, and test the plugins.
- Scootercam Worldwide LLC, a Michigan company, is in charge of this project. The LLC keeps its electronic documents here.
- I’ll keep project notes in the Dev Journal – sort of a diary as this evolves.
Rick Xaver
Scootercam Worldwide LLC