Sites I Helped Make
GeoCommons Finder: an absurdly fast repository for storing and sharing geographic data. Sort of a swiss army knife for geographic formats and platform for big things to come.
GeoCommons Maker: A mapping application built on Finder that brings advanced cartography to mere mortals. Upload a spreadsheet map it. Layer on one of thousands of our public-source data layers and you have something you use to make some seriously well informed decisions.
Obamameter: A collection of interactive maps charting the issues surrounding Obama's presidency. It's a proof of concept for a set of GeoCommons javascript components.
HitFix.com: An entertainment website with a calendar that combines movie, television, local events and more into a single "entertainment forecast". I built some of the early iterations and helped with the front-end buildout for the production release.
Things I Like
UI Design: the type that takes something crazy complex and makes it seem as simple as a toaster.
Ruby: The first programming language I found that allows me to clearly and concisely express my thoughts in code.
Photography: Specializing in things that don't move. Urban, nature, landscapes and whatever else catches my eye. My favorite shots are below, on flickr and I have some giant gigapan panoramas too.
Piano: I play music that sounds more-or-less like jazz. Have a listen.
Context Free Art: A fun community dedicated to a super simple language that makes surprisingly complex and diverse imagery. Here’s an image I made that was included in the book.
Context Free Music: Highly experimental. I took my favorite concepts from the Context Free Art and applied them to music. See the project on GitHub.
Travel: My wife and I are currently traveling around the western United States. We thought we would move to California but ended up deciding to live a month at a time in beautiful places in the west. Here's all the pictures we’ve been taking. My Flickr Photostream has the highlights.
Across the Interwebs
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