Hi, I'm Shawn Parker ๐๐ป
I am a software engineer ๐ง๐ฝโ๐ป and photographer ๐ท. When not coding, Iโm at least thinking about photography. When not thinking about photography Iโm probably taking a nap.
Former photojournalist ๐ฐ, dog person ๐พ, artist ๐จ, motorcycle jockey ๐๏ธ, wanna-be writer ๐.
Born in Portsmouth, VA. Raised around the world in: Virginia Beach, VA ๐บ๐ธ; Buckinghamshire, England ๐ฌ๐ง; Brunnsum, NL ๐ณ๐ฑ; and Colorado Springs, CO โฐ๏ธ.
Resident of Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; Vancouver, WA; Denver CO;
Here youโll find projects that Iโm working on, my photography, both personal and professional, and blog content (mostly awful).
Projects
From time to time something tickles my fancy enough to make it a personal project. When they turn out well enough I like to try and give a little back. Feel free to use anything you find here, just let me know if you end up using something as I like to know if what Iโm doing is being found as useful or not.
Thanks!
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QuizStreak Daily Trivia
A daily trivia game that is the brain child of my brother-in-law.
Built using Sveltekit and Supabase using only the bare minimum of NPM libraries and with artisinally crafted CSS. It is fun to work on and the subject matter is interesting as well.
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PHP-Cowsay
Cowsay. For PHP.
Yup. I blame this existence of this on my chemo treatments having fried my brain.
This composer library allows you to bring the quirkiness of Cowsay to your PHP applications.
The cows are fully configurable and thereโs an easy to follow pattern for adding your own variations.
You want a dragon? You can build your own dragon. You want your dragon to breathe fire? You can do that too with custom traits.
The world is your pasture.
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My Resume
Iโve always been drawn to the resume as an exercise in design and presentation. This is a (typically) up-to-date resume built on whatever shiny framework is en-vogue at the time that I decide to try something new.
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opencode-config
My personal software factory: the agents, skills, hooks, and quality gates behind my agentic workflow. Configuration treated as production code โ the pipeline is the product.
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Patches Etc.
A site for my mother's business, Patches Etc., a chenille patch and embroidery business that focuses on the High School sports market. But she can make patches for anything you need. And she'll sew those patches on to your letter jacket in a way that will last for longer than your high-school sports career.
Built on Eleventy js, with a sprinkling of Sass for styling, and just a little bit of Javascript.
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Sloganator 2.0
A bolt on forum slogan system built on PHP & SQLite. A good excuse to play with modern PHP. It started as something to build from scratch, to see how much could be done as simply as possible, but quickly ballooned once we started caring about quality and stability. Functional and performant, but still needs work.
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Post Password Token Plugin for WordPress
The Post Password Token plugin allows readers to access protected posts without having to enter a password by creating secret token urls for the post.
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Gippy Pages
This siteโs source. A hodge podge of
Ruby, SASS, Markdown, Javascript, Python, PHP, Bash,Docker, SVG, HTML & JSON. All pain-stakingly mashed together using theJekyllEleventy static site framework.