Exploring technology, design, and accessibility
The following is a selection of projects and articles I've worked on.
Further details are on my portfolio site: gingerkiwi.dev. Gingerkiwi.dev is being built in public with React and Vite, using Obsidan for the documentation, and hosted on Netlify with continuous deployment.
Multi-page site with to help knitters & crocheters with math. Main page is “How Much Yarn” that calculates how many balls of X yarn with Y yards/ball are needed to make Z project (eg adult small sweater).
VIEW THE GITHUB REPO
Project Date:
March 2022 - present
The Alice in Wonderland Project started a lot of enthusiasm, but without much planning during Hacktoberfest 2022. It's now in redevelopment as an experiential, project based learning open source software project and curriculum to help new developers learn GitHub workflows and Open Source in a supportive, social environment. Version 2.0 will be ready for new participants for Hacktoberfest in October, 2023.
Project Date:
October 2022 - present
During summer 2022, I reviewed the text and code for the first two chapters of Bruce Van Horne II's new book from a new developer's perspective. Feedback and code corrections were provided both in MS Word documents, and questionaires for both chapters. As one of the most engaging programming books I've read, the challenge was to find the subtle ways that it could be improved further.
VIEW THE BOOK'S SITE
Project Date:
June - July 2022
In 2020, I was part of the national virtual Writers and Editors voluneer team that collaborated to produce weekly newsletters, and education and career blog articles. Due to my professional technical writing and SEO web content creation experience I also created an article template for new writers, and led a Zoom presentation on best practices.
From my work on Writers and Editors team, the founder of GoGeomatics Canada offered me a position writing conference materials and SEO article for GeoIgnite 2020, Canada's annual national conference for the geospatial industry hosted by GoGeomatics Canada. Due to the pandemic, 2020 was the first time that the conference was completely virtual.
READ MY GEOSPATIAL CAREERS SEO ARTICLE
Project Date:
Mid-2020
Throwback Thursday
Circa 2010 Web Content
Though I have been writing personal web content since university
this was the beginning of my writing SEO web content articles
professionally.
The client, eHow.com and Answer.com won the Blogger's Choice award in 2008 at Mashable's 2nd Annual Open Web Awards. They needed quickly produced 400 and 800 word list articles for their award winning eHow blog, as well as Answer.com. Article topics were created by the new computer generated program and included SEO key words that must be used in the articles.
Due to the age of the articles they are no longer live on the website. However, I keep an archive of all my writing in Google Docs. The pdf files linked here are just some of the over 350 articles I wrote in 2010. Over the next six months, I'll be posting these articles as part of my Throwback Thursday SEO web content series.
SEO Article topics included:
Project Date:
December 2009 to January 2011