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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

Blog Questions
Aaron Crowder

From Kev: Why did you start blogging in the first place? I had a website before I had a blog, but mainly because I didn't know what a blog was. The first incarnation of a blog though, that happened back in 2002-2003 I think! What platform are you using to manage your blog and why did you choose it? Right now I'm using Webstead, a home-grown CMS. It's built using Django because it was easy to rapidly prototype in my free time. Now It's grown into quite the large system! I'm currently worki...

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If you've been following my blog and the things I’ve been building you might have been wondering the last few days where I've been.

Honestly I’ve been building so fast on so many things for a while now that I kinda forgot how to be a human. I went from working at a startup to not and ended up building an entire IndieWeb publishing platform for myself.

PADD and Webstead are fairly feature rich and stable. Gardn is really close and taking shape to be a great tool for link gardens.

I'm realizing that I actually need to just start using these tools. So this is me using PADD!

Aaron Crowder

If it feels like I've been absent for a moment, that's because I was. I have some posts I need to catch up on making from the weekend, but in the meantime know that I am back!

This weekend was a busy one and on top of that I decided to migrate to using my own home-grown Microsub server. That didn't go quite as planned so I was "heads-down" working on that any time I had computer time. That was limited until lunchtime today when I got the rest of my issues fixed I think.

We shall see!

Aaron Crowder

Happy Birthday to Me (and Twin Peaks day)
Aaron Crowder

Diane, 11:30am, February 24th. I'm entering the town of Twin Peaks. Today is Twin Peaks day. The show originally aired in 1990, but is meant to have taken place in 1989. February 24th 1989 is the day Special Agent Dale Cooper arrives in Twin Peaks. In real life, February 24th 1989 is the day I was born. Today is my birthday! Weird cooincidence? Or does it explain a lot? These are the questions I'll be pondering today, along with many others. How did I get to be 37 years old? There's anothe...

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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