I somehow managed to break my blog... Update: Blog online, data missing. I'm currently working on recovering it. update: As of 10:15 PM EDT, the blog is back online! What happened? Well, It all started when I decided it would be a great idea to update my Ghost installation…
Since the creation of Webmaker.org [https://webmaker.org] and the MakeAPI [https://github.com/mozilla/MakeAPI], the recommended strategy for creating and curating galleries of makes was to use tagging. For example, one can tag ten makes with gallery and surface that collection of makes using a tag search.…
I'm going to be a dad!!! I'm proud to announce that Sarah and I will be welcoming a new member into our family this November!!…
I've recently been exploring how I can resolve this Bugzilla bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=887568], which is requesting a way to promote original makes in the Make API's [https://github.com/mozilla/MakeAPI] search results. This means implementing a way to "boost" results based on…
For the past three weeks, My teammates and I have been working hard on an exciting new enhancement for the Webmaker project [https://webmaker.org]. After many hours of researching, whiteboarding [https://chrisdecairos.ca/content/images/2014/Mar/wb.png], OMGWTF [https://chrisdecairos.ca/content/images/2017/01/ahhhh.gif]…
This past week, I traveled to Revelstoke, BC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelstoke,_British_Columbia] for an Appmaker [http://appmaker.mozillalabs.com/] workweek. Appmaker is an application designed to enable anyone to create mobile web apps without needing to learn about coding. By combining various widgets together and connecting…