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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Building Four New Themes for Omeka S and Omeka Classic

Omeka
About a month ago I set out to build one flexible Omeka theme. I ended up with four, on two platforms, plus a live customizer and a set of page blocks. Here's how that happened, what went wrong along the way, and how it turned out.

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 fin…

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 one tab, hunt for the right i…

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 implement it in PHP, you know h…

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