Hoopla! That word seems to have become a part of my brand. It started as me just being goofy one day at school after watching Shock Treatment, but now has become my stock greeting when I see people I know. It's gotten to the point where the hoopla precedes me. Once I met a boss's wife for the first time and after I said, "Hi, nice to meet you," she was like, "and.... don't I get a hoopla?"
I live in Madison, WI with my daughter Piper. I love being a dad. I wish I could stay at home and homeschool Piper, but it's not realistic for our family.
I'm a web developer. I wish I could say I'm a person who happens to do computer programming for a living, but who am I kidding? Programming is a part of who I am, and even if I had a billion dollars and didn't have to work another day in my life, I'd still be programming.
In 2011 I Co-Founded Pinpoint Software and build the flagship product Date Check Pro. I left the company in 2018 to pursue other interests but Pinpoint was aquired by ADC (now Upshop) in 2021.
I'm big on community. I founded Madison PHP (a group for web nerds like me). I'm also involved in other groups and events in town, which all relate to the internet.
Currently, I work more with Node.js than PHP and manage a few interesting community projects.
I've hosted and developed the JavaScript port of the RSS Cloud Server since 2015 which is used by feed aggregators to get notifications when a feed is updated.
I've also participated in the Federated Wiki community and built Federated Wiki Feeds which crawls and aggregates fedwikis and provides a collection of different feeds and rivers.
I'm not currently looking for work but feel free to check out my Résumé.
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