Projects

A collection of varying projects and things I've built and still care about.

  • 2026 Open Source
    Petal — a lightweight Jekyll theme

    Design inspiration came from Frieren's favorite spell and Ariana Grande's upcoming album. Built this site's theme from scratch when I couldn't find any themes that were lightweight enough for Github Pages and gave me the customization for a portfolio. Requirements: No heavy frameworks, meaning pure CSS, JS, light/dark mode toggle, and no unnecessary images to stay within Github Pages constraints.

    Jekyll SCSS CSS JS
  • 2018 Book
    A Software Engineer's Guide to Seniority

    I wrote and self-published this book to give people the advice that I wish someone would have given to me before I became a senior software engineer. It was then later picked up and published by Apress.

    Author Book Leadership Seniority
  • 2018 Podcast
    Git Cute Podcast

    A technical podcast that I started when I was in a position where I needed to find a creative outlet and also wanted to share more knowledge outside of Twitter. It ended up being more successful than I could have realized and was the first paver in the path toward building Git Cute.

    Author Podcast Software Engineering
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