Projects

jailsolidaritynetwork.com

I'm working actively with organizers to create a web archive to house and index collected writings and testimonies to the conditions inside Cook County Jail in Chicago.

I'm collaborating closely with organizers to create a custom platform to support secure document upload, tagging, and annotating, and full-text search and filtering our growing database of testimonies.

To support this effort I've architected and implemented a full stack JavaScript web app. The frontend is developed with Svelte and Vite, uses SvelteKit for SSR and client-side routing, and adheres to WCAG, SEO and UI design best practices. The backend API is parameterized with an OpenAPI specification, implemented using an asynchronous, event-driven programming style with Node.js and Express (which is unit tested with Jest), containerized with Docker and deployed with Docker compose on an Azure VM using an Nginx reverse-proxy for HTTPS, and backed by a Postgres database.

findrandommusic.com

findrandommusic.com is a music discovery tool that leverages the Spotify Web API to create an infinite feed of randomly selected songs. It also supports a filtering feature that allows users to narrow the songs they see by year of release, popularity, and genre.

It's implemented using React, Webpack, Docker, Nginx, Node.js and Express, uses a Redis cache to improve performance, and is self-hosted on a Linux desktop. Check out the open source code!

Automated Linux from Scratch

Automated Linux from Scratch is a small project I did to automated the compilation of a custom, fully-featured, bootable Linux-from-Scratch-style Linux distribution using Python, Bash scripting and Docker.