Every project, year by year
Products, jobs, meetups, and experiments, newest first. Some became products I still run. Most were stepping stones.
2020s
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Lauren Rosenbloom
A cinematic new portfolio site for a film and television production designer.
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Sidewalks of South Park
An interactive map of the historic sidewalk stamps in my San Diego neighborhood.
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Artemis Watch
A better Artemis II tracker, fully 3D and built on real-time data from NASA JPL.
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Tabby
A macOS app that lets Safari users export their tab groups.
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Services.yml
A simple file format for documenting the services a Rails app uses.
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Scientist
The world’s largest marketplace for scientific research services.
2010s
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Ivy Street
A coworking space in South Park, San Diego.
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868 Lorimer
A website for a new condo building on McCarren Park, with a hand-illustrated neighborhood map.
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Tucker Carlson Is Confused About Everything
An unreleased art project that pairs a baffled Tucker Carlson with random GIFs.
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SanDiegoJS
Founded a monthly meetup for San Diego’s JavaScript community, modeled on SD Ruby, and built its website.
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Websolr
A quick round of design polish for Websolr, a popular hosting service for Apache Solr.
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The Daily Patdown
An art project that sarcastically celebrated the TSA’s new airport patdowns.
2000s
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the.railsi.st
A blog about building with Rails, plus the plugins that came out of it, including Headliner, Styler, Javascripter, and Trucker.
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Chumby
The Chumby was a Wi-Fi gadget about the size of a clock radio, with a touchscreen that ran a rotating set of internet widgets. I consulted on chumby.com, the Rails site behind it, and really enjoyed working with Susan Kare, who designed Chumby’s identity, icons, and website.
Photo: bunniestudios.com
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Summer of Rails
A community challenge to “learn Rails, make something useful, badge it.” 27 projects took part.
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Graffletopia
My first Rails app. Still running.
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Eventful
Helped launch EVDB, then led its redesign and rebrand as Eventful, including the logo.
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Galacticaa
A Battlestar Galactica fan site and Dashboard widget used by thousands of fans.
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Songwriter 101 and Poll Mod
Lead developer for a songwriting site for BMI. Its polling feature became Poll Mod, a plug-in for pMachine.
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Green Hummer Project
We built the world’s first non-polluting SUV—years before Tesla.
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BMI
A decade of web work for the music rights organization, from BMI.com to mobile apps and a media player.
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iCalShare
The largest directory of shared calendars on the web. Steve Jobs called it “wonderful” in his Macworld 2003 keynote.
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Cinema Treasures
Launched in December 2000. Still running.
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iCAST
Brought Shortbuzz into iCAST, CMGI’s entertainment portal, after the acquisition.
1990s
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Shortbuzz
One of the top short film sites on the web (circa 2002), with 250+ films. Built “Buzz,” its publishing system, in FileMaker and AppleScript.
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PetAccess
One of the first online stores for pet products. Grew the catalog to over 2,500 items.
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Lost in America
One of the first entertainment sites on AOL. Five twentysomethings, three months on the road, a daily dispatch, and a 3D roadside-diner interface.
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Satellite
A student multimedia studio. Made one of the first CD-ROM college catalogs.