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

We're trying out blue apron
Aaron Crowder

I don't know why but I'm super excited about this! I think that it's something to do with the thought of being able to try new recipes all the time. I've always loved trying new flavors and foods. The thing I hate though is finding the recipes and shopping for the ingredients for a weeks worth of groceries to make exactly the right number of servings. But be honest with yourself, you hate it too. We all hate it. We decided to do something about it and subscribe to Blue Apron. When I say we ar...

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  1. a Jif peanut butter jar and a Nutella jar with swapped lids

Just ADHD things…

I somehow managed to put the Jif Peanut butter lid on the Nutella and the Nutella lid on the Jif and put them both away 😂

Aaron Crowder

I'm on a "tool-journey" for a notes app. It's crazy how much a notes app can drive and affect your life if it's used well and correctly.

My current tool of choice is Obsidian, but I've had to use Notion for work lately and quite like it. What's yours?

Aaron Crowder
  1. screenshot of comment form
    You can leave a comment
  2. screenshot of webmention send form
    You can send a webmention too!
  3. screenshot of webmention login notice
    After you log in with your website first of course

I keep sharing links to my blog, so I figured I’d update my blog to let you leave comments on it too. Now theres native commenting, with a real data model, clean front-end forms, and a simple moderation flow in the admin. Spam is filtered early with Akismet and Turnstile, so my comments aren’t flooded with AI bots.

Aaron Crowder
  1. two dogs and a laptop
    I've had some really snuggly dogs today
  2. screenshot of a git status output
    See how many changes there are?!?

Just finished adding webmentions to my blog and now I'm already neck deep into building a comments system using Akismet and CloudFlare Turnstile to fight spam. Can't beat a cozy coding Sunday!

Aaron Crowder