John Nelson
About Me
Worked as the lead software engineer at bffa.org creating intuitive user interfaces- 🎓 Trained professionally in software development Alchemy Code Lab in 2019
- ⛑ Former Firefighter, EMT-Paramedic, and Emergency Room Technician
- 🐕🦺 Training a rescued husky malamute mix named Zuko for therapy
- 🥾 Can be found hiking the trails around Portland with dogs
- ⛷ Active with snow sports, especially skijoring
- 🧠 Nerd for sci-fi, fantasy, and comic books
- ⛵️ Enjoy building Lego's and models
- 🪴 Caretaker of many houseplants
- 🌱 Currently learning NextJS
Projects
🤗 empathetech.org
A hug-o-tron community. Beep beep boop boop.
Personal contributions:
- 🤖 Created navigation bar, footer, and code of conduct components for the website
- 👨🏻🏫 Biweekly Office Hours: Led demonstrations on using D3.js with React
Collaborated using GitHub for issues, code reviews, and pull requests- 🔧 Technical expert with Black Business Association of Oregon
🧰 Next.JS, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Better Future For All
(BFFA.org)Using art to promote measuring and improving a society's ability to meet people's basic needs, empower communities, and unlock individual potential.I created intuitive tools for exploring the SPI framework from the Social Progress Imperative
BFFA Map and Tooltip
View scores from around the world at a glance
Measuring 169 countries 3 dimensions 4 components 60 indicators in total
🧰 Tools: React, D3.js, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
🌸 Inspired by Shirley Wu's Film Flowers
🎨 Iconography by Wakey Nelson
BFFA Stamp Book
Explore each component's definition and sources
🧰 Tools: React.js, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
🗜 Testing: Jest
🎨 Artwork by Jannah Minnix
📓 Physical stamp book available at bffa.org
🔭 Image of the Day from NASA's API
What's not to love about staring at the stars and ultra hd images of them?
Here I am making an API call to NASA, lazily because they love large image sizes.
NGC 147 and NGC 185
Dwarf galaxies NGC 147 (left) and NGC 185 stand side by side in this deep telescopic portrait. The two are not-often-imaged satellite galaxies of M31, the great spiral Andromeda Galaxy, some 2.5 million light-years away. Their separation on the sky, less than one degree across a pretty field of view toward the constellation Cassiopeia, translates to only about 35 thousand light-years at Andromeda's distance, but Andromeda itself is found well outside this frame. Brighter and more famous satellite galaxies of Andromeda, M32 and M110, are seen much closer to the great spiral. NGC 147 and NGC 185 have been identified as binary galaxies, forming a gravitationally stable binary system. But recently discovered faint dwarf galaxy Cassiopeia II also seems to be part of their system, forming a gravitationally bound group within Andromeda's intriguing population of small satellite galaxies.
🔩 API call made to
https://api.nasa.gov/index.html
using
Tanstack / react-query
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