Personal site of Jon Openshaw. Fullstack Software Engineer & Experienced SEO Leader. Ruminations, roundups and the like on code, SEO, and being alive.
Sometimes we fail. We fail and we feel lost and depleted and scared. So what do we do with those feelings? Me? I write self-flagellating, unfunny essays in an effort to cradle the splinters of my fragile ego while introspecting to the point of violent illness. Onward!
A simple lead form for my consulting work. Live at purposeful.dev
WIP tool to learn Go and run health & indexation reports on XML sitemaps for SEO.
A rundown of all the things I learned about in my travels this past month (Jan 2024).
At the end of last year, I had the idea to make a Disco Floor making app. I finally got around to completing the first version. It's missing a lot but I've enjoyed it a ton and wanted to pull some thoughts together on it.
It's a disco floor pattern builder and player I made, originally so I could show my niece.
I've never done anything as rewarding, or as reckless, as making the jump to programming/development/software engineering, but it's worth it to be the source of your own momentum, even if just for a bit.
After an unexpected reintroduction to the Monty Hall Problem, I try to test its premise in JavaScript.
MutationObserver objects can be useful to act after changes are made to the DOM.
Quick guide on getting a simple bubble chart set up in D3.js.
A brief primer on some common Unix command line tools. Super beginner level.
A short guide on how to consume XML sitemaps in Ruby using the Nokogiri gem and get at the good stuff.