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Website migrated to Ruby on Rails 8

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For most of the life of this blog (since 2008), it has been powered by WordPress. In olden days, I organized WordPress conferences and meetups in Seattle.

WordPress served me well for a long time...

My Vite Starter

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When I was most recently in the process of interviewing at the start of 2025, it became useful to have an up-to-date and efficient front-end stack for coding interviews. This came in handy both for...

Swarzy Website Refresh

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The Swarzy website has been revamped with updated information about the services provided, a showcase of projects for recent clients, and links to apps Swarzy has built.

Swarzy is built using...

Amazon Throwback

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I had a throwback day in Spokane working with a couple of my favorite ex-Amazon product and UX leaders.

My client Vantage International landed a User Experience (UX) audit for Pigu, a Lithuanian...

At the Silos in Moscow, Idaho

Last week, I worked for a day from the silos in Moscow, Idaho, at a RedBalloon summit.

Rural places have #StartupLife, too, especially in the remote work era we've entered post-2020. It enjoyed...