Current and Past Projects

I love to build things, here are just a few of the projects I have worked on or contributed to.

  • Sinking Atlantis (2021)
    A JavaScript puzzle platformer game created during Ludum Dare 48 built with Phaser 3 and Webpack. You plays as a fish trying to sink Atlantis.
  • What’s Open McHenry County (retired 2020)
    A map listing of local restaurants that were open for take out / delivery during Covid-19. Largely based on the code from Dancing Quest.
  • Dancing Quest (passive development since 2019)
    A Chicagoland Calendar & Map of over 600 social dance events.
  • Fooda Tweaks (retired 2016)
    Google Chrome extension that modifies fooda.com for usability.
  • Image Geodata to KML (passive development)
    A node script to extract geodata & timestamp from images to create a path.
  • Traffic Trouble (2017)
    A GameMaker 2 puzzle game created during Ludum Dare 40. Try to stop traffic from building up and avoid accidents.
  • Alexa Dancing Lesson (retired 2016)
    A simple experiment with creating Alexa Skills.
  • DiningIn Tweaks (retired 2016)
    Google Chrome extension that modifies diningin.com for usability. Extension used a node.js api on Digital Ocean for storing votes.
  • Tab Delivery (retired 2018)
    Google Chrome extension to send a Chrome tab from Chrome on one computer to Chrome on another computer.
  • Votimo.com (defunct 2016)
    A single page app based on Backbone.js & Marionette.js. Built with a Laravel API backend.
  • jQuery.otherdropdown (retired 2015)
    A jQuery Plugin hosted on npm. Combo box dropdown that prompts user to when ‘other’ is selected.
  • RandomThingsToDo.com (production)
    A crowd-sourced listing of random ideas of things you ‘could do’. Target audience of middle school / high school.
  • Piston Republic (development)
    A platform for gear-heads and their rides developed by my friend Adam De Fouw.
  • MayorNeeded! (retired 2014)
    A geo aware utility to search for nearby foursquare locations that didn’t receive many checkins. Retired in 2014 when foursquare made API changes and moved away from checkin business model.
    Built with vanilla JavaScript, PHP, and the FourSquare API
  • HushMenu (retired 2014)
    An app listing ‘hidden’ items that don’t make it on the menu.