psst… the rumors are true…
I am looking for a new full/part-time engagement or long-term embedding. I resonate with humane digital services, community self-esteem, experiential education, cultural heritage, and consentful connection. If that’s your frequency, let’s chat! Dream roles include:
- style engineer
- author empowerment facilitator
- maintenance technician
- hypertext prototypist
- systems weaver
- public web docent
- and more…
Hi, I’m Rosemary.
I weave together poetry, design, and code. My favorite machine is a floor loom, but you’ll find me at home in a text editor too. In either mode, I’m speaking the language of details, interaction, spatial awareness, and drape… in short, craft!
I remember learning HTML from a library book circa age 8, and again at 21. I’ve been authoring it professionally since 2019. Today, I rest in the lands known as Zhigaagong and Wabanakik, in a beautiful chosen family of artists and question-askers.
Below is a curated selection of my digital work. If anything piques your curiosity, please drop me a line.
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Sites for Groups
this selection represents a range of organization-scale projects I have contributed to, in both fresh-build and maintenance roles. Many were undertaken under the auspices of *Jumpsand, a WordPress shop in Tucson, or ‡Firebelly, a Craft shop in Chicago. |
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| SCALES OKN | scales-okn.org | full design and build in Eleventy and Sveltia CMS | Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill |
| SCALES Data Explorer | dataexplorer.scales-okn.org | created a map component to visualize analysis results at the court, state, and circuit levels, using Plot, GeoJSON, and React | Shygirl, Nymph_o |
| Stanford d.school‡ | dschool.stanford.edu | contributed atomic component styling, Craft 5 structuring, and QA velocity for this major redesign | Imogen Heap, Speak For Yourself |
| Newberry Library‡ | newberry.org | updated form features and styling to get it just right for client needs | FKA twigs, EUSEXUA |
| Art on the Mart‡ | artonthemart.com | wrote an author guide for this specialized Craft CMS setup | Blossom Dearie, Winchester in Apple Blossom Time |
| Affiliated Engineers‡ | aeieng.com | transitioned SEO plugins and led a training workshop for the new system | Moses Sumney, Sophcore |
| Evanston Community Foundation‡ | evanstonforever.org | collected research for future maintainability, Next + Payload | Fiona Apple, Idler Wheel... |
| Mercado San Agustín* | mercadodistrict.com | led full WordPress + ACF build of this business district’s unified information hub | Roomful of Teeth, Rough Magic |
| Tucson Gem and Mineral Society* | hub.tgms.org | initial design and build of member portal | Aldous Harding, Warm Chris |
| Turkel Design* | turkeldesign.com | styling implementation and data entry | Marina Herlop, Pripyat |
| Arizona Friends of Chamber Music* | arizonachambermusic.org | content modeling and music API integration | Joseph Haydn, string quartets |
| Arizona River Runners* | raftarizona.com | reservations API integration and templating | Fatima Al Qadiri, Medieval Femme |
| Southern Yosemite Mountain Guides* | symg.com | content migration to WordPress | Cecile McLorin Salvant, Ghost Song |
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Sites for People
expansively directed, intimately scaled projects for my friends | |||
| Girl Detectives | WIP | Nancy Drew meets Freaky Friday meets Mean Girls | Cat Power, What Would the Community Think |
| Anna Fox | annadfox.com | design and build in Eleventy and Decap CMS | Perfume Genius, Ugly Season |
| Claire Bergey | clairebergey.net | design and build in handwritten HTML | Adrianne Lenker, songs |
| Raif Wexler | web.archive.org/web/20231130094738/raifwexler.net | design and build in Jekyll and Decap CMS | Tinashe, 333 |
| Meet me in the loom | loom.sprig.site | design and build in handwritten HTML | Anjimile, Giver Taker |
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Self-Initiated Sites
personal and learning sketches that I’m brave enough to share | |||
| Turned Twill | sprig.site/turnedtwill | a short essay on strings of letters and strings of fibers — i live-captioned a reading by Noa Micaela Fields with this | Doechii, Alligator Bites Never Heal |
| all form forms time / falls on the body | time.sprig.site | a creative calendar view for Are.na channels in vanilla JS | Joanna Newsom, Divers |
| Lounge | sprig.site/lounge | a home for occasional amateur mixes | Lafawndah, The Fifth Season |
| Formal Weaver | loom.sprig.site/texts/weaver | a simple weave draft editor in Elm | Heinavanker, Songs of Olden Times |
Practice
I focus in making legible, fluent, and harmonious websites.
This includes a holistic view of diverse users’ experiences, semantic markup, modern CSS, and progressive enhancement.
It also includes a critical awareness of the social worlds that sustain computing, and of how our work transforms them in return.
I find inspiration in…
- the feeling of making by hand
- slowness
- vernacular textiles
- visible mending
- deep listening
- clarity
- compassion
- metamorphosis
- devised theater
- municipal forests
- shape notes
- digital friendliness
- maintenance art
- going all-in for the potluck
Toolbox
- HTML5
- CSS3
- ES6
- Sass
- Vite
- Grunt
- PHP
- Craft
- WordPress
- ACF
- Node
- Eleventy
- jQuery
- Next
- Plot
- Fractal
- DDEV
- Git
- Docker
- Jira
- Figma
- Netlify
- Cloudflare
One of my favorite parts of this medium is puzzling through something new every time— a new tool, pattern, or concept (many of which are actually quite old!). I hope to be in beginner’s mind for a long time.
Ethics Statement
Electronic systems have enabled the exercise of power and hierarchy unprecedented in human history. For this reason, I feel it is important to consciously divest from structures of computational oppression and dependence. I am optimistic that we can instead use computers in service of mindfulness and social cohesion, if we intentionally strive to.
To that end, I am explicitly uninterested in working with organizations that do business with militaries, weapons manufacturers, fossil fuel companies, police and border patrol, or any BDS target.