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January 1, 2023 0 Comments software development

Trans Legislation Tracker in the news

A year of data collection, learning, and interviews In 2022, I continued maintaining and expanding the Trans Legislation Tracker. That work has put me into conversations with leading researchers, reporters, and organizations who are striving to tell the story of anti-transgender legislation …

Tracking America’s historic wave of anti-trans legislation

Xtra Magazine wrote about the Trans Legislation Tracker, highlighting the work I’ve been doing over the past two years to document anti-trans legislation in the U.S. Read the full article here. In the midst of this ongoing battle, software developer and creative …

The Stranger covers Inflection Point

The Stranger’s @MattBaume covered Inflection Point, a website I built to explain how the US found itself in the midst of a historic wave of anti-trans legislation in 2021. Read the full article at The Stranger. “What is this movement?” Bales wondered. …

Social Impact Heroes profile

I talked with Authority Magazine about my experience leading digital projects for their Social Impact Heroes series. My most recent, Inflection Point, is a website detailing the wave of anti-transgender legislation in 2021. Our discussion touched on learning habits, growing from mistakes, …

Capitol Hill art installation

I created an installation art piece for Substantial in Capitol Hill, Seattle. Overlooking Cal Anderson park, the office gets plenty of foot traffic. The front door on the ground level is flanked by tall windows. I wanted a piece that would engage …

Quarantine Music Club

A music club I’ve been a part of– hosted by my friend Joshusa Finnell— tried our first-ever digital gathering. Like usual, we had a theme and each of us picked out a few songs to share. But this time the theme was …

Premium Words

@Premium_Words is a dutiful Twitter bot that publishes a unique word from the PoetryFoundation.org archive every hour. Early random picks have included choice words like “UGG-booted, “mini-lawnmowers,” “long-married,” and “unsayables.” At this pace, it has enough content to run for about 10 …

DynamoDB Converter

Making updates to DynamoDB tables can be time consuming. It’s necessary to update basic JS objects to new formats that mirror DynamoDB records. I created an NPM package to simplify the process of conversion to and from Dynamo records, as well as …

Mission control

I built this web app to give Submittable users a fun new way to explore their data. It reimagines the presentation of fiction, poetry, or other formal document submissions and through a “mission control” dashboard. Submissions become “missions,” acceptances become “landings,” and …

React props & state

Happy to publish another article with FreeCodeCamp this week! This tutorial touches on a subject that wasn’t immediately clear to me when I started developing with React– how do you see the current state & props in the browser? “How to see …

Scraping with Ruby & Nokogiri and mapping the data

Free Code Camp published my article “How to scrape with Ruby and Nokogiri and map the data.” This piece comes out of a project I recently built to map bridge data from across Wichita, Kansas. To get the bridge info, …

Building a terminal game with CSV & Ruby

Free Code Camp published my article “How you can build a terminal game with CSV and Ruby.” It’s based on a lecture I gave earlier this year at Ada Developers Academy, and features a talk about Ruby’s CSV library and a walkthrough …

“Building a Best Sellers List” Featured @ Free Code Camp

I went through the Free Code Camp curriculum back in 2016 to earn a front-end certificate. It’s a great organization, and I’m thrilled to have published an article about combining APIs on the Medium publication for Free Code Camp.

MIDI & Socket.io Project @ Hacker Noon

I wrote a tutorial about the process of making a collaborative MIDI app. Read along over on the Medium publication Hacker Noon.

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