Hello, my name is Jon Fackrell.

I'm a software developer and information professional.

I studied Mechanical Engineering in college, but I fell in love with creating software.

I love making things and have worked on lots of projects. I live in Idaho with my wonderful wife and our 4 kids.

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Introducing Oral Archivist for Omeka S

Introducing Oral Archivist for Omeka S

Omeka
Every collection has them: the shoebox of cassette digitizations, the folder of interview MP3s, the video of a beloved community member telling stories for two hours straight. They're often the most human things we hold and the least accessible. Nobody has time to listen through hours of tape to…
Spill: a small tool for publishing from Omeka S

Spill: a small tool for publishing from Omeka S

Omeka
If your library publishes from an Omeka S collection, whether that's exhibit pages, LibGuides, newsletters, or a blog like this one, you know how much quiet friction lives in the gap between "we have this digitized" and "it's now on the page." You open the collection in o…
Laravel Package for LTI 1.3

Laravel Package for LTI 1.3

Laravel
If you've never heard of LTI, count yourself lucky. But if you work anywhere near the EdTech space — building tools that need to plug into Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, or any other Learning Management System — you've almost certainly run into it. And if you've tried to impleme…
Traffic Guard: Bot Protection for Omeka S

Traffic Guard: Bot Protection for Omeka S

Omeka
Recently, we ran into an issue across several hosted Omeka sites where bots were hammering search and item pages, driving CPU usage to 100% and slowing everything to a crawl.