One of several offshoots of the aforementioned free-association with project ideas is this blog.
I have a habit of writing my own minimalist blogging platforms every few years when the mood strikes me to soliloquize publicly. This is probably iteration three or four. The final post of the previous version was made in late 2010, so I've been away for, eh, a while....
On the tech side it's pretty standard HTML5 & CSS3 on a LAMP backend. The clean-look design took a few evenings to get where I was happy with it. Definitely emulating style elements of a few other sites, but it's all cobbled together with handwritten code that I like to imagine imparts some kind of personal touch.