Blog & Portfolio

Ricoh Theta S: Getting started with 360 photography
Published
July 7, 2017
Tags
review
My first impressions of the Ricoh Theta S and expanding my use of 360 photos, photospheres, and/or equirectangular photography, whichever term you prefer.
Video
What are Thin Vertical Slices? [Video]
Framing development efforts as thin vertical slices using user stories ensures a quickly releasable product, maximized value to the stakeholders, and a workflow that is adaptable to many kinds of change.
Published
June 28, 2017
Tags
scrum
presentation
Location-tracking Roadtrip Blog
Published
April 23, 2017
Tags
engineering
side projects
travel
Combining automatic location tracking, geocoding, route planning, map design, and a custom theme frontend on a Tumblr blog to bring friends and family along on one hell of a ride.
My First Custom Alexa Skill, Powered by Home Assistant
Published
March 16, 2017
Tags
home automation
3d printing
Using Home Assistant’s built-in Alexa integration, I can ask Alexa about my 3D printer or for a better weather report.
Making a Mute Hotkey for Zoom Meetings with AutoHotKey
Published
March 5, 2017
Tags
working remotely
tools
Leading meetings involves a lot of typing on screen shares. Zoom lacks a global hotkey for mute that is accessible while the meeting window is not in focus, but I found a way to add one.
Video
What are Story Points? [Video]
Use story points to estimate task complexity, leading to a more predictable velocity and avoiding pitfalls of hours-based estimates.
Published
February 28, 2017
Tags
scrum
presentation
Making a Photoblog with Lightroom, Jekyll, and Gulp
Published
November 9, 2016
Appears On
Written for and appears on Four Kitchens' Four Word
Tags
photography
engineering
Combining Lightroom’s Publishing options with Jekyll for static site building for an easy, highly performant photoblog.
“Levelling Up” the Work from Home Experience
Published
June 8, 2016
Appears On
Written for and appears on Four Kitchens' Four Word
Tags
working remotely
As Four Kitchens went fully remote, we improved on the telecommuting experience by building on lessons learned working from home.
Meet Aquifer: A Build System for Easier Drupal Development
Published
March 31, 2016
Appears On
Written for and appears on Four Kitchens' Four Word
Tags
drupal
product management
Enterprise CMS-based websites are applications that deserve build systems for smarter dependency management, auditable changes, and automation of repeatable steps for reliability.
Video
Intro to Singularity
A presentation on the Singularity Grid system: embrace your content and free yourself from predefined media queries, presentational classes, and clumsy layouts.
Published
February 27, 2016
Tags
engineering
presentation
Cleaner History with Interactive Commit Building in Git
Published
February 27, 2016
Appears On
Written for and appears on Four Kitchens' Four Word
Tags
engineering
tools
Git offers two ways to build more targeted commits from a dirty working tree, allowing developers to illustrate and annotate thought processes, leading to more maintainable repositories.
Portfolio
Forcepoint
Published
February 26, 2016
Tags
drupal
product ownership
frontend
internationalization
Product ownership and frontend development for an internationalized, localized, responsive website for Forcepoint, powered by Raytheon, the new face of Websense.
Websense’s public facing website was powered by an outdated and inflexible CMS. As they prepared for the joint venture with Raytheon to launch Forcepoint, significantly expanding their product offerings and target verticals, they wanted a path to streamline the management of their content, unify internationalized (translated) content rather than having discrete sites, and be able to localize (geographic relavence targeting) their website’s offerings.

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