I build artful websites
that are easy to update.
- Full stack nerd who can speak human
- 20+ years experience with myriad languages and frameworks
- PHP, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Lua
- Django, Rails, Craft CMS, Statamic
- Eats SQL + CSS + regex sandwiches
- Debian server stan
- Fan of fast, joyful, accessible, lean, functional
Games
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Save Picoville!
To learn Pico 8 I recreated (in broad strokes) one of my favorite Commodore 64 games, Save New York. View on GitHub
Active Sites
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The Infinite Corpse
Trubble Club presents: an online collaborative comic open to everyone in the world who makes or wants to make comics. Built with Django. View on GitHub
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Con-Mon
Flask app to help frazzled cartoonists keep track of the myriad of conventions in a year. View on GitHub
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Top Shelf Productions
I’ve designed, coded-from-scratch and maintained the Top Shelf site since 2002.
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Microcosm Publishing
Independent publisher and distributor based in Portland, Oregon. Another from-the-ground-up site I designed, coded and maintained, going back to 2003.
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BMXmuseum.com
BMX history, bike-sharing, and marketplace with large and active userbase. I built multiple servers and coded custom PHP/MySQL backend to serve 8+ million pageviews/mo.
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RDKLinc
John’s RDKL (pronounced roadkill) brings new life to aging Apple laptops and also helps folks fix their own. Designed and coded-from-scratch, with Vanilla forums.
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Spudnik Press
An affordable and approachable community print studio in Chicago. Design by Sonnenzimmer, Wordpress wrangling by me.
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Quimby’s Bookstore
Everyone’s favorite Chicago bookstore, focusing on independently-published and small press books, comics, zines and ephemera. Quimby’s favors the unusual, the aberrant, the saucy and the lowbrow.