My name is Dominic. This is my portfolio.

Everything on this site is being served from a Caddy file server running on a Raspberry Pi computer in my living room. It's just a handful of static HTML and CSS files that I wrote years ago when I was first learning how to program. The visual design is inspired by Full Stack Open.

About me

I am a programmer analyst at a university in Chicago. I'm also one half of Mount Prospect Web Design, a small business that designs and builds web solutions for other small businesses. When I'm not writing code, I sing professionally for various symphony choruses and chamber choirs. Learn more about me.

Projects

blog-aggregator

A blog aggregator microservice built with Go and PostgreSQL. This application allows users to follow and unfollow RSS feeds as well as fetch all of the latest posts from said RSS feeds. It consists of a RESTful API and a long-running service worker that reaches out over the internet to fetch data from remote locations.
- Go
- PostgreSQL
static site generator

A static site generator built with Python that parses a directory of markdown files and converts them to a static website. I primarily use this to generate an up-to-date HTML version of a folder of Markdown files in my Obsidian vault that contains my most frequently used recipes.
- Python
- Bash
- HTML
spotify-shuffle

A command line tool that allows me to start playback of my Spotify playlists at the location of a specific song without any queuing, filtering, or skipping and without taking my hands off the keyboard. I built it with Node.js, SQLite, and the Spotify Web API.
- Javascript
- Node.js
- SQLite
Mount Prospect Web Design

I made this marketing site for a small business I run with my wife. It's a static site built with Sveltekit, and deployed from Cloudflare. The images are hosted on an AWS Cloudfront distribution and the blog is a collection of Markdown files.
- Sveltkit
- Markdown
- Cloudflare
- AWS Cloudfront
Daphne's Bar

During the pandemic, I learned the basics of fullstack development and got really into home bartending. This app came in handy when entertaining. I built it with Node, Express, MongoDB and React. All that was left was to do content research 🥂
- React
- Node
- MongoDB
North Park Covenant Church

A custom Wordpress theme I developed for a local church. The code is mostly PHP and SASS with a little bit of Javascript. This project was surprisingly fun and taught me a lot about working with clients, bug fixes, and the Wordpress ecosystem.
- HTML/CSS
- JS
- PHP
- Wordpress
Pomodoro Timer

I built this timer with React to help increase my productivity and focus. Writing the code proved to be a welcome distraction from all the work I should have been doing at the time. The design comes from frontendmentor.io.
- React
- Vite
- Vercel
node_cleaner

A script that autmatically deletes node_modules folders from any project repos on my machine that haven't been updated in over a month.
- Python
- Shell
Designer Portfolio

This was an existing Squarespace site that I recreated using React and Sanity CMS. I wanted the owner to be able to easily manage her content without having to pay a monthly fee. I built it as a single page React app that fetches data from Sanity's content lake via their JS client.
- React
- Sanity