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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

Some Webstead bug fixes: An Update
Aaron Crowder

Last week I blogged about some bug fixes that I wanted to make to Webstead. I gave myself an "SLA" of today. I'm happy to repor that as of today the bugs I shared in that post are now fixed! Blogging works! I guess blogging really does work as a method of accountability. I have blogged about some of my goals for this year and even have some on my Now page. I'm tracking one of my goals (40 hikes this year!) as a series of blog posts. I'm happy to see that blogging is working in the short-term...

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Some Webstead bug fixes I need to make
Aaron Crowder

I'm going to just start blogging things. What better place to start than with a post about the bugs I need to fix in my blog. How meta, right? Actually, I'm hoping that by posting these here I'll actually fix them this week some time. Bugs These aren't listed in order. I'm using an un-ordered list after all! Also, it's not exhaustive either. I noticed: Dark mode contrast for the cursor location in admin editor needs to be increased. We can probably just change it to white from it's current b...

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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
  1. a screenshot of the theme for https://crowdersoup.com
    `Birthday 2026` isn't a very catchy theme name unless I make a new one every year...

Since today is my birthday I thought I'd treat myself to a fun theme for today. I'll be switching back tomorrow so enjoy it today!

Aaron Crowder
  1. screenshot of quill interface showing syndicate buttons

Spent an hour this morning doing some work on Webstead. Was able to finish implementation of the IndieAuth server, and then for fun updated the syndication targets so I have more control over where each post goes.

Aaron Crowder