I've been at this so long that many of the small businesses and nonprofits I've helped have shuttered or proprietors have retired. These are the sites that are still online.
Every business has a lifespan, and it follows that every website has a lifespan. A moment of silence for Butterflybodyart.com, Hunterbyrdbooks.com, Marinfashioncamps.com, Rebeccasmuffins.com, Thehealingnature.com, Womenpowerpossibilities.net.
Climate911.org – An inspiring 50-something family physician is bicyle-touring across the country to educate the public about the health effects of climate change.
Growingupwild.org - A non-profit organization based in Corralitos, CA, whose mission is to provide wilderness education to urban youth.
HumboldtMBA.com – A new private alumni network for the graduates of the Cal Poly Humboldt Strategic Sustainability MBA program, developed to facilitate collaboration among alumni and to be a nexus for community development in the greater Humboldt, CA region.
QualityAwningCare.com – A business to business service company that professionally cleans awnings, serving Oregon in the I-5 corridor. I rebuilt this site when Cloudflare somehow lost the content of the site. Another reason to keep your registrar and hosting under your control.
RedwoodEnergy.net – Multifamily housing design and Zero Net Energy firm, and host of the annual Zero Net Energy conference and retreat in Humboldt County, CA.
Managed Hosting
With my partner Namecheap, I can get the best deals on website registration and hosting. The marginal cost of adding another website to host is zero, and I'm happy to maintain these sites in perpetuity. I'm able to self-sign SSL certificates to avoid the extra expense that would otherwise be incurred. Users can produce an arbitrary number of email addresses and use SMTP and IMAP to send and receive their branded emails from their personal email for simplicity, or set up their own email apps such as Thunderbird. Personally, I recommend that they use a Protonmail pro account for extra security.
Programming
Part of my environmental engineering education required learning the Fortran programming language to solve engineering problems that require a numerical method to solve efficiently. Here is a short list of some of the programs I've written:
Secant method and Newton's Method root finders
Gauss Elimination to solve a system of linear equations
Use of Minpack subroutine library to solve a system of nonlinear equations
Romberg integration with trapezoid rule to integrate any user-defined function
Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg (RKF) algorithm to solve a system of ordinary differential equations
RKF with shooting method to solve boundary value problem
Transient groundwater pumping problem (parabolic partial differential equation) solved with successive over-relaxation algorithm using finite difference space and time discretization.
Full-Stack Development
With Loveable.dev and its partners Supabase and Resend, I can produce full-stack sites through a chat-based interface that my clients can own and maintain themselves, should they choose. Sites have admin interfaces. Sites are capable of incorporating sophisticated logic the serves data and users from multiple databases. HumboldtMBA.com was developed with Loveable.dev, Supabase, Resend and Mapbox. The site partitions public and private pages to keep user data private. It parlays intake surveys into leaderboards where users vote on user generated responses to prompts about what the organization should do to serve its users and the community we all care about. It incorporates logic so that users can vouch that other users have graduated from the same cohort. It provides a job board that users have access to before the public does, and more.
