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I live with my wife and two boys in Ballard, Seattle. We live in an old Craftsman that I keep saying I'm about to start fixing up.
I've just gotten back into working on this site and discovering other things I've forgotten, like my little tilde club site that just served as a gateway to the old Geocities Jeff Buckley fan site I made in the 90s and put up on Glitch. I forgot Glitch died, so my JB site died too. I just put it back together in Codepen, warts and all, so I present to you: Peyote Internet Theatre.
Work
I'm a front-end developer at the University of Washington School of Law, and I'd like to stay here until I retire and collect my union pension like Debs intended.
I manage the public facing website as well as email marketing, and collaborate with Law IT on the help desk and other projects. I'm currently focusing on web standards and accessibility. I am a UW IT Accessibility Liaison and a UW Information Security Advocate, and participate in the Accessible Web, Front-end Technologies, User Experience & Design Thinking and Web Council communities of practice.
I've been trying to get better about documentation, which is especially important since I'm now working on several API implementations, including a home grown API for our personnel database that I'm really excited about. I also joined the W3C Documentation Community Group.
I've just successfully done a major upgrade on Umbraco Cloud from v13 to v17 and can not start really building out the next iteration of the site. It's going to be awesome.
Reading Habits
I'm currently reading The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dead Milkmen by Tyler Sonnichsen, Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin, Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger, and Trouble Boys by Bob Mehr.
Visit my Reading page to see what I've finished and what may be up next.
Recent Chart Toppers
- Guided by Voices
- The Bats
- Swell Maps
- Lifeguard
- The Cure
- Sharp Pins
- good flying birds
- Wire
- Built to Spill
- Dwaal Troupe
- Shallowater
- Cap'n Jazz
See more of what I'm listening to at last.fm and the artists I'm supporting at Bandcamp. And if you remember the dearly departed site This is My Jam, here's an homage with my top track of the last 7 days.
The Guilty Office
by The Bats
(This is set manually via a micropub "listen" post and falls back to my top track on last.fm if I haven't made one in more than a week.)