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Personal projects, coding tutorials, and programming related content.

Introducing the Launch Lab

I’m unveiling the Launch Lab, flexible consulting packages that help creators build their website and refine their online presence.

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Reducing Google API requests with simple image caching in WordPress

This will probably apply to a very niche group of users, but I wanted to share a simple way I helped a client reduce requests to Google Maps’ API and save thousands of dollars.

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Twitter (X) is doing Just Great

Documenting the downfall of Twitter

Astro

I tried the new Astro Framework

Over the holidays, I tried to rebuild my site using Astro, the popular newish web framework.

Boredable

I’m building Boredable, a new yet familiar, social network.

Last year, I found myself unplugging from the world of social media entirely. I bid farewell to Facebook, deactivated Instagram, and turned my back on Twitter. It was a liberating, yet revealing experience.

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Ghost 5.x on Fly.io with AWS S3 Support

Setting up a Ghost 5.x Docker container with S3 image hosting.

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Seattle WordPress Theme

A Headless WordPress theme for photography blogs.

Music notes floating on a dark background.

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Retrieving Spotify Search Results via API

A quick and simple solution for searching music using Spotify's API.

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Gatsby Just Docs

Gatsby Just Docs is a powerful MDX-based authoring framework for building great documentation.

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A simple GeoJSON serializer

Hacking Django Rest Framework to give me data I can use in Mapbox.

Blogging is Weird

Underlost.net relaunches

Underlost originally started as a Gossip Girl-esque blog I maintained during high school. Over the years it morphed into a portfolio piece to show off (and look for) work, and eventually just sort of turned into this testing ground for experimenting with new technology stacks and designs.

Jaded Gamer

Rebuilding Jadedgamer

Jadedgamer was a mostly single page news website that allowed you to quickly scan headlines of the most popular news outlets. I liked to consider it the front-page of video game news.

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Configuring Ghost CMS for Production On Digital Ocean

Getting the Ghost CMS setup is a pretty painless process with the prebuilt Digital Ocean Droplet. Out of the box, it will server 99% of the majority of users well as a simple blog. But what about scaling and better asset hosting support? That's where it can get tricky.

The State of Blogging in 2019

It's been a whole year since my last look at the state of blogging, so I figured it was time ti check to see where things are at.

WordPress

The right way to WordPress

How not to suck at building your next website.

Weekend Project: Writing a dumb little URL shortening service

Writing a dumb little URL shortening service

Underlost.net Retrospective

With me launching a new design of underlost.net again, I thought it would be fun to show some of the the previous design iterations I came up with through out the years.

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That time I made a really dumb Kotor2 Mod

So I made a Knights of the Old Republic II.

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Why I built my own CMS

Why I built my own content management system, and why you probably don't need to.

UnderTasker

Helping you bootstrap your web site/app using a Grunt & Node.js stack

Rebuilding Underlost.net

An introduction to the design, development and deployment process of the latest version of my site.

Underlost

Moving to Medium

An experiment of sorts.

Building Jaded Gamer

Taking a stab at building a web app, fully hosted in the cloud.

Introducing Blips

This past summer I started working on another feature for the site, called Blips.

Blogging, Simplified.

Say hello to Replica. Blogging platforms have been so busy trying to copy each other, there really haven’t been any other platforms that really fit what I needed. It borrows features from other platforms, and leaves out the ones I don’t need. At it’s heart, is a simple dashboard for creating and editing posts, built on top of Django web framework and written in Python. Anything can easily be edited. But what really makes Replica stick out above others? Lets take a look at some of the features I

Quantum Break may cross paths with Alan Wake

The way we approach these things is definitely kind of – they’re connected in weird ways. And definitely for Remedy fans, there will be a lot of familiar things from a Remedy game. I can picture it now. At the end of Quantum Break, the camera pans away to reveal the entire thing was a show, written by Alan Wake.

CD Projekt's REDKit Available Now

The toolkit finally allows players to create official mods for The Witcher 2, ranging from new quests to new worlds to explore.

Epic Citadel

Unreal Engine HTML5/Javascript demo. This proves you can have awesome games in your browser.

Angry Birds HD: My thoughts on Ouya

With Ouya’s Kickstarter page going live yesterday, people have been asking me what I thought of the new console. I’ve had some time to think it over, and I keep coming to the same conclusion. The Ouya is little more than a smartphone masquerading as a home console. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it’s just what it is. Hardware Lets start with the hardware. It’s near-identical to what’s found in the current generation of smartphones and tablets. Nothing about it is really impressive. It’

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PostgreSQL 8.4 on a Media Temple (dv) Server

Upgrading PostgreSQL from 8.1 to 8.4

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