User:Rootwork.org
Holy 🦎s and 🦄s, it’s Ivan Boothe
US-Pacific ☙ Tsinuk (Multnomah) & Cowlitz lands ☙ Portland, OR
This may not be the most up-to-date version of my bio. For the latest, see rootwork.org/about.
Black Lives Matter ✊🏽 Trans Rights Are Human Rights ⛺ Houseless Neighbors Deserve Dignity
Ivan Boothe
Pronouns: he/him
I’m into frontend engineering (especially back-of-the-frontend), creative social protest and radical nonviolent praxis. These things go together more than you think.
Current projects
- Premail, an easy-to-use component-based build system for MJML, the email templating language, with Handlebars templating, Sass styles, and extra options.
- GET: Gulp, ES6, Tailwind, a kickstart template for modern TailwindCSS development.
- Hugo Module Site, an example of how to use Hugo Modules in your Hugo site.
- rootwork/bash-scripts, helpful tools for image management, video manipulation, and image/video conversion.
- Responsive Tables Builder, a tool for creating mobile-first, accessible, responsive HTML data tables from data files, with CSS and without JS.
- Radical Icons, reusable SVG and PNG images for activist art and organizing.
- I’ve also been active in Drupal (especially nonprofit and community-oriented Drupal) since 2005. Find me at drupal.org.
Ask me about
- Drupal (4.5 to 9)
- nptech (nonprofit/NGO tech)
- accessibility (a11y) and universal design (also sometimes called inclusive design)
- MJML and email coding generally
- Handlebars
- Sass and modern CSS
- Gulp 4
- Back of the frontend Nodejs
- Hugo
Also moderately experienced with bash scripting (and zsh), Tailwind CSS, SVGs and animation, Composer, CiviCRM, and using Linux in day-to-day work and development.
Coding is just a small part of who I am
Technology is a means to an end, and shiny tech is not always the best means.
I’ve worked as a human rights advocate, a community organizer, and a nonprofit communications manager. I’ve been on the board of a justice studies association, helped nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize, wrote about third-party nonviolent intervention and used electronic civil disobedience to fight insecure voting systems.
Really all my technological expertise and interest stems from those larger objectives for social change.
I’m also active in 🚲 re-thinking urban spaces, 🥕 local food cooperatives, and 🔔 semi-professional handbell performance.