Hello, world!
Thanks for checking out my site! I'm Rick. (That's me to the right). I'm a front end engineer focusing on web performance. When I'm not coding or exhausting my Netflix queue, I serve as a captain in my local volunteer fire department.
Upcoming Talks
Past Talks
Fire! beta
Bridging two of my favorite hobbies, firefighting and web development, I started the Fire! project to give concerned community members and emergency service buffs alike the latest information about local emergencies.
red dwarf
red dwarf beautifully visualizes the global positions of any given GitHub repository's stargazers (people who "star" the project). red dwarf was GitHub's 2nd most-watched JavaScript project on October 2, 2012.
trunk8
Inspired by the adaptive UI of Adobe Flex, trunk8 is a jQuery plugin to intelligently truncate text to best fit its container. trunk8 was GitHub's 5th most-watched JavaScript project on August 10, 2012.