Welcome!

Hey, I am John Franke, a programmer and musician living in the midwest. I made this site to post about coding, climbing, and music. I am also a Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor.

Thanks for reading,

Feeling generous?

Here are a few of my favorite charities.

Donate to Catalyst Sports 2025

Past years: Catalyst Sports 2024 Paradox Sports 2023

Every February, I climb for charity. Paradox Sports and Catalyst Sports both offer accessible climbing opportunities for people with differing abilities, defying the perception that people with a ‘disability’ cannot lead a life of adventure. We hit the goal in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Let's do it again in 2025! Progress 📈

Donate to Project Healthy Children

Project Healthy Children fortifies food, preventing malnourishment

Donate to Palestine Children's Relief Fund 🇵🇸

Around 50% of Gaza's population is children and they are facing the wrath of an indiscriminate bombing campaign.

This blog was generated via agave, a static site generator I wrote with ReasonML that turns markdown files (.md) into custom styled html and css.

npm i -g agave-generator
# for theming your own site
mkdir markdown
cd markdown
echo '<html><body><!-- MARKDOWN --></body></html>' >> base.html
touch index.md && touch styles.css
cd ..
agave -p docs

And push to your GitHub io page, or upload to any other static site hosting service.

For code syntax highlighting, I am using highlight.js in my base.html file.

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