Project Portfolio Digital Archeology & Modern Games
A career built on community, platform architecture, and technical media.
This portfolio showcases key projects and platforms I've designed, built, and led. From deterministic card combat to historical community archives, this is a look at the evolution of my work.
Technical Conversation Archive
A high-fidelity restoration of 184 indexed technical interviews across 212 recorded assets from the Ruby, JVM, and Software Craftsmanship movements. I used local AI (Whisper/LLM) to perform forensic transcription, dialogue restructuring, and SEO optimization to preserve technical memory across a changing industry.
Phalanx Duel
Tactical card combat built around a familiar 52-card vocabulary, compact formations, and replayable rules. A hands-on laboratory for rules engines, observable state transitions, and product architecture.
WWWorkRemote
A local-first, human-supervised job search system for ingesting, searching, ranking, triaging, and advancing job leads through applications and interview preparation.
Chicago Code Camp
Community conference serving regional software practitioners. Designed and developed official event websites, speaker management systems, and custom schedule generation engines (including the printable 9-track matrix) across multiple conference years.
UGtastic
A technical media platform dedicated to capturing high-bandwidth technical conversations. Produced over 200 interviews with industry leaders at the start of the DevOps and Craftsmanship movements.
UGl.st
The User-Group List. I built this project to help user-group organizers promote their communities and bridge the gap between physical conference interactions and digital discovery. Features the signature heart glyph in the user-group registration interface, with the initial capture on January 11, 2014 and the final snapshot under my ownership on December 22, 2014.
#Resume (SharpResume), NStun & Frog's Brain Open-Source Suite
Early open-source C# / .NET Framework 2.0 (v2.0.50727, Visual Studio 2005) libraries published on CodePlex, Google Code, and FrogsBrain.net under the MIT License (Copyright 2006-2009 Just3Ws, Inc. / FrogsBrain.net). Includes NStun (FrogsBrain.NStun, native C# RFC 3489 STUN UDP NAT traversal protocol engineered while solving real-time distributed ticket broker connectivity at TicketsNow), #Resume (Just3Ws.SharpResume, strongly typed C# object model, XML serialization engine, and ASP.NET Builder implementing the HR-XML Consortium 2.5 Resume specification), and SchemaInSight (programmatic SQL Server schema inspection API).
RubyGems (60,304 Downloads), fog Gem, Clojars, Chocolatey CTA & GitHub Arctic Code Vault
Published three production RubyGems under handle just3ws totaling 60,304 downloads (express_pigeon v2.4.1 with 30,267 downloads, biscuit-monitor v0.0.4 with 18,026 downloads for CLEAR Spot 4G+ hotspot telemetry, and biscotti v0.1.4 with 12,011 downloads). Contributed upstream to the Ruby cloud library fog/fog (PR #1562, commit fecbf150 on February 13, 2013, upgrading net-scp after v1.0.6 was yanked from RubyGems.org; merged by Wesley Beary @geemus and credited in the v1.10.0 CHANGELOG, earning the official fog contributor t-shirt). Built the top-of-site Kickstarter launch CTA banner on chocolatey.org (commit fa6a43b0, GH-124) for Rob Reynolds (ferventcoder) in November 2014. Catalyzed the Clojars 0.2.0 release of metasoarous/semantic-csv (Issue #49) while building the plik Clojure multi-delimiter CSV service, served as #1 all-time contributor to coderwall/coderwall-legacy (634 commits, 856 stars) and creator of assemblymade/coderwall-badges, and was archived in the 2020-02-02 GitHub Arctic Code Vault (Svalbard, Norway) across countries/countries (commit ec5d33ea), coderwall/coderwall-legacy, asm-helpful/helpful-web, fog/fog (commit fecbf150), carlhuda/janus, cdnjs/cdnjs, and just3ws repositories.
