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I've redesigned calvinf.com. Again. (Hey, this website has been here a long time.) Earlier this year I migrated seventeen years of posts from WordPress to Ruby on Rails. That update focused on the...

One of the best things I've found about vibe coding is that it becomes cheaper to experiment. Certainly not free—if you've paid the price for Opus 4.5 usage beyond your included plan limits, you know...

For most of the life of this blog (since 2008), it has been powered by WordPress. In olden days, I organized WordPress conferences and meetups in Seattle.

WordPress served me well for a long time...

When I was most recently in the process of interviewing at the start of 2025, it became useful to have an up-to-date and efficient front-end stack for coding interviews. This came in handy both for...

I recently spent time updating a few Swarzy websites including Swarzy.com. (Yes, this is how I spent my time off for Veteran's Day Observed.) I've always found that having and working on other...

The new Verses for Life website is live! Memorize Bible verses from the Topical Memory System, Roman Road, and about Prayer.

The new website features a modern website built using Next.js, React.js...

The Swarzy website has been revamped with updated information about the services provided, a showcase of projects for recent clients, and links to apps Swarzy has built.

Swarzy is built using...

I got a phone call from Andrew Crapuchettes in December.

He asked, Are you available? We need your help.

Here we are in February and the RedBalloon website has re-launched with a fresh design, a...

I had a throwback day in Spokane working with a couple of my favorite ex-Amazon product and UX leaders.

My client Vantage International landed a User Experience (UX) audit for Pigu, a Lithuanian...

Last week, I worked for a day from the silos in Moscow, Idaho, at a RedBalloon summit.

Rural places have #StartupLife, too, especially in the remote work era we've entered post-2020. It enjoyed...