I grew up in Kansas but now I live in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago. I'm a developer most of the day, but I also deal with Project Manager-y stuff (and more) from time to time. I work for Ars Technica which is now a unit within Condé Nast Publications.
I'm a polyglot programmer and my three strongest languages would be Python, PHP, JavaScript, and Ruby (in that order). Most of that work has been in or around web sites or web services. I've also written countless utility scripts in both Python and Ruby. I've worked in many more languages on a tangential scale—I'm good enough to be able to go into about anything and fix small bugs and make sure the tests don't fail.
As of February 2011, I've been working mostly on the mobile sites and apps for Ars Technica. I wrote nearly all of the HTML5 powered iPad app in CoffeeScript and have spent a lot of time re-vamping our mobile website.
I really enjoy CoffeeScript right now but I am still very comfortable writing naked JavaScript. I also enjoy dabbling with servers and side-projects using Node.js.
Some projects I've worked on—in some capacity, outside of my day job are:
I've contributed small bug fixes and features here and there to projects such as: