crazy4groovy / cli

Rapidly build command line apps

Hi there, and welcome 👋

My name is Steve Olsen. I'm a passionate Sr. JS developer (since 2005), compassionate team leader, organized project manager, motivated entrepreneur, and avid husband/father.

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STATUS: Open to part-time contract work opporunities only

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Here are some of my projects I've been having fun on (some recent, some older):

Online educator and mentor (Sr. JS Dev)

Goal: To fast-track Jr. developers into Sr. developers, by teaching (and practicing) advanced principles, tips, and techniques to code high-quality & MAINTAINABLE software. Let's get more Sr.-leveled developers into the marketplace, because the industry needs it!

• YouTube Channel
• Blog

Project: Time Zones & Scheduling App (100% client-side SPA)

Goal: To provide a simple tool for every time-related task!

• https://allworldtime.vercel.app

Project: Animated ASCII Videos

Goal: To convert videos into pure ASCII art -- why not? Looks cool! 👍😎

• https://landing-page-wcgvahcaev.now.sh/home-page (fake landing page)
• https://demos-kwgsuvbigm.now.sh (more sample videos)

Project: AI SVG ART

Goal: To convert and display AI Midjourney art as SVGs, using free bandwidth alliance for hosting

• https://aisvg.art

Project: Chemistry Speller

Goal: To find and display words that can only be spelled with periodic table elements' abbreviated names

• https://chemistry-speller.vercel.app

Project: Ocarina Tab Maker

Goal: To provide a simple tool to input notes for playing ocarina music. CSS styles for printing supported, as well as some old school spriting techniques.

• https://ocarina.vercel.app

Public APIs (Paid Service)

Goal: A simple service for scraping URLs, conveting content into a JSON tree or Markdown

• https://rapidapi.com/bootz15/api/html-2-json/

My NPM Public Packages

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash-getpath
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/named-positional-args
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/ascii-img-canvas-nodejs
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/svg-thumbnailer
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-spreadsheet-promise (deprecated)

Rematch (ala Redux state management) Pull Request

Goal: Contribute back to my JS dev community. A great OSS project needed help with their Loading plugin.

• rematch/rematch#245

My Portfolio of Custom Company Web Sites

Goals: To keep my front end skills fresh; help businesses succeed online

• https://wheelymath.com (HTML template --> Astro & Svelte)
  • A WHEELY fun math game for kids 8+ and adults too
  • Original game creator and CXO
  • Free online game version: https://wheely.today
  • Buy 3D printed game card set, or 3D printer GCODE files
  • Project consists of a monorepo for marketing & online game, shared code
• https://betsyolsen.com/ (WordPress --> Astro & Svelte)
  • includes a markdown Blog via Google SpreadSheets/Form backend
  • grade A vitals
• https://gingerbreadhomes.biz/ (custom vanillaJS --> Astro & Svelte)
  • includes a markdown Blog via Google SpreadSheets/Form backend
  • grade A vitals
• https://mountainbrothers.ca/ (HTML template --> Astro & Svelte)
  • includes a custom SMTP/email backend for Contact Form via GMAIL account
  • grade A vitals
• https://cardstongym.ca/ (HTML template --> Astro & Svelte)
  • includes a custom SMTP/email backend for Contact Form via GMAIL account
  • grade A vitals
• https://whiterockmentalfitness.site (HTML template --> Astro & Svelte)
  • relates to a super-secret native app, planning for a late 2024 release ... stay tuned

My Hobbies

• 3D printing & modeling
• music composition (piano and guitar)
• Ukrainian speaker (90% fluency)
• Video Gamer
• Forever Learner ™
• Project sandbox: https://github.com/srjsdev

If you'd like, please reach out to me!

Social Accounts

🐦 Twitter: @crazy4groovy 🐦 Twitter: @srjsdev