Hello, my name is Carter Parks. This site is my space for fiddling around with web design and other topics.

This page contains information about me and projects I am working on, as well as work that I find interesting and would like others to know about.

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I work as a software developer. Most of my experience has been in web development, but I have a strong interest in all areas of computing. I have a GitHub and a LinkedIn. This list is comprehensive. If you see someone else on the web that shares my name, it isn't me!

I'm a big fan of shader programming, and WebGL opens up all sorts of possibilities. The background consists of three WebGL shader passes:
3D Perlin Noise, Color Quantization, and Edge Detection. The OKLCH colorspace allows for hue shifting without changes in luminance or chroma. The colors on this site all use OKLCH. This site uses Hanken Design Co.'s Glacial Indifference and Friedrich Althausen's Vollkorn. I am an OS enthusiast, and enjoy customization and control of my computer environment. I'm currently running Arch Linux and using Niri, a dynamic tiling compositor/window manager with lots of appearance options. I have a stong preference for the command-line interface, and perform the large majority of my work there. I use fish, which has great completions and ergonomics.

My primary editor is Kakoune, a modal editor with a number of very useful features, such as multiple selections and excellent shell integration. I consider it an upgrade within the Vi family of editors. The Raspberry Pi Zero W is a great platform for low-spec always-on services. This site is served by a small custom Rust program shielded by HAProxy.

My music library is served by Navidrome. Against common wisdom, I self-host my email. I use an installation of Maddy on an EC2 instance to receive email. It was a breeze to set up and I recommend it. I'm recording my music listening history to share and keep track of the albums I enjoy. Check out what albums I've been listening to recently. The Standard Ebooks Project makes high-quality public domain ebooks. I read them on my Kobo Clara HD, which allows sideloading of PDFs, EPUBs, etc.