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.
Since I'm now in my third week of employment with them I figured it was safe to announce:
After 4+ years with Govalo I started a new job at Filevine!
Honestly this was one of the longer job hunts of my career so far. I'm not sure if it's the market or that I was a bit more picky in what I applied for, but it started way back in September of last year (2025). I was mostly applying for staff level engineer roles and a small handful of manager roles.
I hadn't considered Filevine but a friend who...
I’ve been wanting a dead‑simple way to publish small personal sites on Neocities without build tools, databases, or plugins. Today I’m sharing Neo‑CMS — a tiny flat‑file CMS that renders Markdown right in the browser.
The whole idea is: just files. Drop Markdown into /content, list those files in content/index.json, and add a little YAML front matter for titles, menus, and slugs. That’s it. No build step. No dependencies. No CLI. If you can edit a text file and upload it to Neocities, you ca...
