Study

CSS Battle

A daily challenge from cssbattle.dev: recreate a target graphic using as little HTML and CSS as possible. I rebuild each one, then add a bit of animation on top.

Chess

Every chance I get I'm playing a quick game of bullet or blitz, to mixed success. Its a great way to keep my mind my fresh between coding tasks, even if I play too quickly and fail miserably. Here are my results so far:

Side projects

• Fantasy Draft Simulator

  Guessing the results of the NFL draft.

• kickstart.nvim

  My ever-changing Neovim config.

• Phone Security Checklist

  Quick tips I made for family members.

• Demographic Map

  A demographic mapper built on Census data.

• Tornado Tracker

  Tracking tornadoes using SPC data.

• Colorblind Checker

  A colorblindness checker built with CSS filters.

• Flood Visualizer

  Mapping FEMA flood hazard zones across Illinois.

• SunZone

  A multiview for everyone in my NCAA football league.

• Scorigami

  An interactive novel scoring tracker for the NFL, heavily inspired by Secret Base.

Currently learning

• Nuxt 4

  The new directory structure and features this site is built on.

• Vuetify Zero

  Vuetify's new headless component framework.

• Flutter

  Cross-platform app development.

• Firebase

  Auth, Firestore, and hosting for app backends.

• Drupal 11

  The latest major release and its module ecosystem.

• WordPress 7

  The latest major release and its current plugin ecosystem.

• Cloudflare Pages & Workers

  Deploying static sites and small services outside the usual hosts.

• Vercel

  Git-connected hosting for my Nuxt side projects.

• Google Maps Platform

  JS API and marker clustering for client map features, alongside Leaflet.

• Accessibility auditing

  Pa11y and Playwright scripts to catch WCAG issues on client sites.

• Digital Ocean

  Proper resource usage - load balancing, droplets, managed databases, and the like.

• Pantheon

  Proper usage and management of the platform.