I wanted to get some practice with CSS and Sass and learn CSS animations, so I started fiddling around in a gihub repo. I didn’t set out to create anything specific but wound up making a simple JavaScript animation engine that cycles through a list of objects representing a series of animations, initializing each one on a timer. I made a jQuery and a vanilla JavaScript version. This plunker uses the vanilla version.
Read MoreYear: 2014
PDF Creation Station v4.0
In October and November of 2014, I had some time to work on my own personal projects, so I returned to my WordPress plugin Kalin’s PDF Creation Station. You can see the older version in an older post. I have rewritten the client side to use Angular.js and Bootstrap, almost entirely eliminating jQuery from the equation, and added a couple new features such as widget and custom menu support, a new sorting and pagination system for the lists of available posts and generated files, and the ability to generate .txt and…
Read MoreAccretive Tech, Streamate.com
From August 2011 to July 2014 I worked for Accretive Technology Group, maintaining their flagship product, a live streaming adult entertainment platform, duplicated over 1500+ websites. I started as a Flash ActionScript developer, maintaining and adding features to their performer client, of which I don’t have any screenshots, as well as the user client shown in this first image. You can also see the user client by going to Streamate.com in a desktop browser and clicking on any performer. Warning: this is an NSFW site. The screenshots on this page…
Read MoreOpposing the Department of Education Doesn’t Mean Opposing Education
At first glance it seems that getting rid of the department of education would be insane. Your first reaction is to think “oh, he doesn’t think people should be able to get an education,” but this judgement isn’t fair. Somehow it seems like we’ve gotten to a point where in order to support something people are required to support it on a massive scale and in an absolute fashion. However, for some of us we just don’t see our federal government handling our education better than the average state. For…
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