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Hi. I'm John.

I am a half-century-old lover of tech, dachshunds, photography, books, camping/glamping, video production, voice acting, hiking, travel, web app development, film, writing, stoicism, exploration, and all sorts of other nerdy things. I'm an introvert by nature but warm at heart, living life as a New Orleans-born Texas transplant while keeping the memory of my sweet "little fat boy", Nicholas, close to my heart.


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Making a retro website

You know, I never thought I'd be going back to my web roots one day. I remember creating my very first website in...gee, it must've been 1994 or so, when I used Netscape Composer to create what was most likely the GAYEST LOOKING site in the world (think rainbow navigation buttons and animated sparkly gifs). Thankfully, though I wasn't out yet, I was indeed gay so that just happened to work in my favor.

I remember HTML before CSS was really a thing - when you coded color and styles directly into your site and used HTML tables FOR... (read full post)


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