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Aaron Crowder

Hi, I'm Aaron Crowder. Or—if you know me online—CrowderSoup.

Father of two, Software developer, and lover of the open web. I like to take things apart (and sometimes even put them back together). I can frequently be found tinkering with some bit of code in my spare time.

Pronouns: He/Him, They/Them

  1. regal roadrunner
  2. roadrunner about to take off

There’s been a lot of bird talk on #IndieWeb the past few days. So I was really excited today when I was able to get these pics on a walk with Azure earlier!

Look at that Roadrunner 👀🕵🪶

Aaron Crowder

Hike

Hike 4/40: Valenine's Day Hike ❤️🌄

Elevation profile

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Today's hike was meant to be a big one. Then Azure got really sick which was a huge bummer. And then we realized that if I didn't go for a hike today (even a small one) I'd fall behind on my goal of getting 40 hikes this year.

So I decided I'd go for a quick 45 minute hike. That turned into an almost 2 hour, five mile adventure lol. Enjoy some photos! Happy Valentines!

Aaron Crowder
  1. battle stations after dark 😏

Last night I had a lot of fun hacking and building. I meant to post this picture but oh well, you can enjoy it today!

Aaron Crowder

Introducing PADD
Aaron Crowder

Today I had a few hours to kill with my partner in the ER. She's okay, I promise! It wasn't the way we wanted to spend our Friday, but it gave me time to hack on something I've been toying with for a while. I give you: PADD. Yesterday I shared a screenshot of something else I'm making but the test UI was Star Trek themed. That was kinda based on this lol. Kinda. Padd is a Microsub Reader. The biggest thing this one does over others I've used is save my replies in-line. So I don't forget if I...

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  1. lcars html rendering tool
    A 'lil LCARs HTML rendering utility I made to test the iFraming.

Earlier today I made a caw page that was a coloring page of a raven that you could download to share on your own website.

Building that inspired me to build something...

IndieWeb.ink

This is a screenshoot of a test I did of indieweb.ink. It's a new #IndieWeb tool for creating and remixing photos. You login with your domain, upload a picture you want to share on your site for your visitors to remix (think coloring pages, but really... anything should work!), and then embed the iFrame on your website!

Then your visitors can color on the page, download it, or even click "Publish" to login with their own website and publish it (using micropub) to their site!

I'm not quite ready to launch it (thinking maybe next weekend!), but I'll be sure to share regular updates this week.

Aaron Crowder