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.
Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun
An unusually active sunspot region is now crossing the Sun. The region, labelled AR 4366, is much larger than the Earth and has produced several powerful solar flares over the past ten days. In the featured image, the region is marked by large and dark sunspots toward the upper right of the Sun's disk. The image captured the Sun over a hill in Zacatecas, Mexico, 5 days ago. AR 4366 has become a candidate for the most active solar region in this entire 11-year solar cycle. Active solar regions are frequently associated with increased auroral activity on the Earth. Now reaching the edge, AR 4366 will begin facing away from the Earth during the coming week. It is not known, though, if the active region will survive long enough to reappear in about two weeks' time, as the Sun rotates.
🔩 API call made to
https://api.nasa.gov/index.html
using
Tanstack / react-query
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