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This is just a landing page for the stuff I host on GitHub Pages. There probably won't ever be more here than just this. It's the links below that are cool.

About me

These are some things that are kind of about me. If you're interested in how I work or the kinds of things I work on, this section is for you. Personal README A personal README is a great place to tell colleagues about how you like to work. This is mine! Things I contributed to I was a federal civil servant for over 17 years. I decided to reflect on what I've done with my time.

Writings

Some things I've written. Blog I don't often think about typing up my thoughts into blog posts, but every now and then, I remember. And this is them. Pride posts, 2023 A series of LGBTQ+ Pride posts I wrote for work in 2023. African American History Month 2025 A series of posts about African American history I wrote for work in 2025. My position was eliminated and I was effectively fired by DOGE before I could finish the month.

Drawings

I like to draw. It brings me joy. Here are some of my drawing collections. Today in History Silly illustrations of significant events in history. I didn't make it through a full calendar year before I stopped doing them. Sorry 'bout it. Alphabet of Animals Drawings of animals for each letter of the alphabet with almost 100% entirely real animals! Alphabet of Cartoon Characters Drawings of cartoon characters for some of the letters of the alphabet. My interest in the project petered out before I finished.

Weather

I'm a weather nerd. I love watching an outbreak of thunderstorms or trying to guess how much snow we might get. To that end, I've used the National Weather Service public API to build some sites for myself. When is going to snow? A page that uses your location data or a ZIP code you type in to look for the next snow in your forecast. Atlantic hurricanes A different presentation of the information available from the National Hurricane Center. Scraped directly from the source on a regular basis. Storm Prediction Center A different presentation of the next 3 days' convective outlooks from the Storm Prediction Center (SPC). It uses GIS data directly from SPC, plus a little text parsing to handle the discussion.

Odds and ends

And a few other things I've done that don't really fit any particular theme. Pottery projects Some of my early pottery projects. I lost interest in keeping it updated pretty early into my pottery practice. CSS sphere I was introduced to CSS's 3D transformations, so naturally I wondered if it was possible to make a globe in just CSS. The answer is... kinda! (Not really. This uses a lot of Javascript to update the CSS transforms over time.) Anyway, here's what I came up with. It's janky! Pixures A small, curated collection of GIFs that I like.