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I'm Justin

I'm a developer.
And a writer.

I build useful things, write about what I learn, and explore the messy, interesting parts of being human.
I build useful things, write about them, and explore what’s next.
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Cartoon illustration of Justin shrugging with open hands.

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I needed to serve a separate frontend app, a Vite build, at /editor on the same domain as a Drupal site.

A simple lo-fi stream player embedded on a site — no third-party widget, no branding, no <iframe> from a service that might go away or plaster ads over it.

There’s a particular kind of frustration that only developers who do lots of client work understand: the moment you switch from one project to another and realize you can’t remember where anything lives.

My wife has a lot of essential oils. Like, a lot. Shelves of them. A dedicated cabinet. More arriving in the mail with some regularity. However, she has always had an issue about which oils she has and how much she has left.

If you've ever placed the same reusable block in multiple regions of a Layout Builder page and found that only the first instance renders while every subsequent placement shows nothing. You've hit a known Drupal core issue.

You've installed the robotstxt module, made your changes in the Drupal admin at /admin/config/search/robotstxt, cleared cache, run cron — and the live robots.txt file still showing old content.

Projects

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Inkfork

A quiet writing companion for curious minds. Try a small craft exercise, branch a draft into a new possibility, or invite a surprise to see where the words lead.

Aliasquatch

A macOS companion in development to help you rediscover shell aliases and terminal commands tucked into your zsh and Bash setup.

Env Menu

A native macOS menu-bar app for managing local Lando and DDEV projects. See what is running, start the next task, and open the tools you need without digging through terminal windows.

Writings

The other half: fiction, poetry and longer pieces.

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