CrowderSoup

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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. 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

Things I’ve said tonight during the Olympics:

That dude is graceful as fuck!

You have an Olympic level butt

Aaron Crowder

Today at work I implemented unit tests for our backend and immediately found 3 bugs in production code lol.

Write 👏 automated 👏 tests 👏 please!

Aaron Crowder

I’m building something similar to the original Aaron of IndieWeb as IndieNews and I’m really excited about it. Hoping to have something to share in a couple weeks!

Aaron Crowder

Happy 12th blog birthday!
Aaron Crowder

Yesterday evening I wondered how long this blog had been around. So I decided to look it up on the wayback machine. I was not ready to realize that yesterday was my blogs BIRTHDAY 🎉 Wow. It's been 12 years! Crazy how fast time has flown and how much of my life has changed since then. I'm now no longer: Working at Boostability. Married. Mormon. However, a lot is the same! I'm still a dad. I'm still a software engineer (and I've grown in my career a lot!). And a lot is actually better....

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