My Projects
I have an insatiable drive to build and create. The following projects are fully designed and coded by myself (PHP, MySQL, CSS/SASS, Javascript, and jQuery). They offer a place to test ideas, learn new technologies, and serve as a creative outlet.
Zindrop allows you to write a quick thought or bookmark an interesting page. Utilizing tagging, it allows you to organize all of your content into collections for easy retrieval.
Vimsio is a web application that lets you organize notes, bookmarks, lists, and images. It's part note-taking application and part life-management tool.
strymr
Of the thousands of news readers out there, none quite worked for me, so I built my own. The goal is to create a robust RSS reader with content discovery and advanced filtering.
Blog
Infinite Scroll Madness?
Several years ago, a trend started to rise. I believe it was perpetrated by Pinterest, but perhaps it doesn't matter who started it. What's important is that it must stop.
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Web Design as an Art
I've always looked at web design as a form of art, but what is the role of the designer when everything is designed by data?
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Adventures
From a 2,650 mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail with my wife, to weekend backpacking trips with our three-year-old, I love to get out and create epic memories. When I'm not designing and building websites and apps, you can likely find me in some mountain range or planning the next dream trip.
Today's exploration opened up quite a bit of new, very interesting territory for me. I can easily keep myself busy in this...
Three-and-a-half days of sleeping in our car, hiking and exploring by day, and relaxing or working on personal projects at night...
Two weeks seems to be my limit. If my feet haven't moved me through a landscape, or if I haven't ridden a bike through the hills, I begin to...