CrowderSoup

A website about technology and life.

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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

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    You can leave a comment
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    You can send a webmention too!
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    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
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    New Photo Slider Controls!
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    Bonus: Link Previews!

I'm making this a photo post because the photo slider got an upgrade.

Previously it was purely HTML/CSS which is fine. However, I decided to progresively enhance it with some simple JS to add some controls to make scrolling more smooth.

As a bonus I also added Open Graph data to every page. Now when you share links to my blog the link previews work!

Aaron Crowder