Newport and Seal Rock
photo by Carter Pape, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
I took the drone out for a spin this weekend.
the blog
North Carolina and Hyco Lake
photo by Carter Pape, all rights reserved
I like having a remote job because it means I can go see my family.
Portland, Seattle, and Silver Falls State Park
photo by Carter Pape, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
I went on a few more adventures in the last month.
Sights of the past nine months
photo by Carter Pape, all rights reserved
Did I mention I live in Oregon now?
My recent foray into cable news
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Moab has recently found itself gaining national attention for reasons outside the typical intrigue with tourism destinations. That has afforded me the opportunity to speak to national and statewide audiences live on television and radio about the Moab City Police Department and the Pack Creek Fire.
A colleague and I wrote a series about Moab’s housing crises.
photo by Carter Pape, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
The five-week series dug into the solutions that exist for alleviating upward pressures on prices and the lack of diversity in available housing types in the county.
Grand County is fighting homebuilders. Here’s how I’m covering it.
photo by Carter Pape, licensed for exclusive use
The county’s marquee housing ordinance, passed in 2019, appeared to be on its way to working. Then officials changed course.
LibSass is dying. How will Jekyll respond?
In my search for a way to use newer Sass functions on my Jekyll site, I discovered that one reason I couldn’t was that the implementation of Sass that Jekyll uses by default was deprecated. So, I filed an issue report.
I created a website that won a statewide award.
photo by Carter Pape, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
The 2019 version of The Times-Independent’s website won best in class among Utah newspapers.
I made a program that helps report the news.
photo by Florian Klauer on Unsplash
Although it is not yet sophisticated enough to write stories from scratch, it does save me a lot of time and mental energy.
I learned to program at 13, and I am so grateful to my father for helping me do that.
photo copyright Wiresmith Technology Ltd.
My dad taught me to program in LabView because I saw him using it and thought it looked colorful and interesting. Turns out I was extremely correct.
why Pornhub is adopting altcoins
Pornhub just added PumaPay to its repertoire of supported cryptocurrencies, but it hasn’t jumped on Bitcoin or Ethereum. Here’s a look at what might be behind this.
This is not AP style.
AP style is useful, but on this website, it isn’t exactly what I need.
round it out and fix the footnotes
I’ve recently done some changes to the website that I thought might be useful to document, so this article provides a rundown of some of what I changed.
how IoT began
I was given permission to share some of my recent freelance writing on my blog, so here’s a highlight of what I’ve made so far.
olivermak.es a pretty website.
image licensed CC BY-NC 4.0
I stumbled upon a designer’s website, and at first it made me really jealous. Then I got over it.
What flavor do you want?
Markdown comes in all sorts of variations. Which one should I use in my app?
naming
There’s a reason I chose to name it “write”, but I’m still having second thoughts.
I alone can fix this.
image by Carter Pape, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
There are things iA Writer and other apps don’t do that I wish they would, so here’s a first draft of a design solution.
Facebook and privacy just don't mix.
photo by Carter Pape, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
The tension in the story of Facebook and WhatsApp is a close parallel to a larger tension between user privacy and Facebook’s profit motives.
introducing a series on how to fix Facebook
decompiling Facebook seeks to investigate big questions regarding the regulation of social media companies, Facebook being chief among them.