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  <a href="https://en.gravatar.com/whusterj" target="_blank" class="no-highlight">
    <img src="http://gravatar.com/avatar/4e5a5a2d5be8c26770a7d901b5898a9e?s=800"
      style="width: 100%; height: auto; max-width: 13rem;" alt="Portrait of William via Gravatar">
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  <p class="bio">
    Entrepreneur. Engineer. Angel Investor. 🍖📻 Ham Radio Operator. Some kind of artist.
    Right now I'm working on <a href="https://www.thinknimble.com" target="_blank">ThinkNimble</a>,
    where we are building software for organizations we admire.
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    <strong>Not Written by AI</strong> — I use AI daily as a coding assistant and research tool. I think it's 
    great and also scary. The lines get blurry sometimes, but it is crucially important to me that every word
    I put down on this site is generated from my own meat-based neural net and reflect as much as possible
    my own "natural general intelligence." I hope they are of some value.
  </p>
  <p>
    <strong>🍖📻 Ham Radio</strong>
    <a href="https://www.qrz.com/db/W3WYM">W3WYM</a>
  </p>
  <p>
    <strong>𝕏</strong>
    <a href="https://x.com/whusterj">@whusterj</a>
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    <strong>Github</strong>
    <a href="https://github.com/whusterj">whusterj</a>
  </p>

  <div class="credits-section">
    <h2>Credits Roll</h2>
    <p>Software I've built or helped build since 2007.</p>
    <ul>
      <li>2025 <a href="https://www.ecue.ai/">Ecue</a> - AI Agent migration</li>
      <li>2025 <a href="https://app.opening.guru/">Opening Guru</a> - End-to-end chess app</li>
      <li>2025 <a href="https://quadrantstrategies.com/">Quadrant Strategies</a> - Panelist Platform</li>
      <li>2025 <a href="https://vuenome.com/">VueNome</a> - AI Agent Build</li>
      <li>2025 <a href="https://myhyde.com/uni/my-career-closet/">Hyde MCC Career Fair</a> - Technical Leadership, AI Recommender</li>
      <li>2025 <a href="https://www.hivewealth.com/">Hive Wealth</a> - Technical Leadership</li>
      <li>2025 <a href="https://brize.ai/">Brize</a> - End-to-end AI MVP</li>
      <li>2025 <a href="https://app.thrippy.fun/">ThriftShop/Thrippy</a> - End-to-end AI MVP</li>
      <li>2025 <a href="https://gopursue.com/">GoPursue</a> - End-to-end AI MVP</li>
      <li>2025 <a href="https://www.projectbasta.com/">Project Basta</a> - V2 Rebuild Scoring Algorithm</li>
      <li>2024-26 <a href="https://www.darksaberlabs.com/">DarkSaber</a> - Tech Leadership, Project Leadership, Radio</li>
      <li>2024-25 <a href="https://puttrax.com/">Puttrax</a> - Tech Leadership, Hardware, ML</li>
      <li>2024-25 Billflow for <a href="https://www.penningtonpartners.co/">Pennington Partners</a> - Internal Tool</li>
      <li>2024 <a href="https://www.barometerxp.com/">Barometer XP</a> - Games Platform</li>
      <li>2024 <a href="https://www.experiolabs.ai/">Experio</a> - Tech Leadership, AI Architecture</li>
      <li>2024 <a href="https://data4living.com/">Data4Living</a> - Tech Leadership, Patent Application</li>
      <li>2024 <a href="https://start.markshhc.com/">Marks Home Care</a> - Tech Leadership</li>
      <li>2024 <a href="https://www.equati.ai/">Equati</a> - Tech Leadership, Software Architecture</li>
      <li>2024 <a href="https://www.delvedeeper.ai/">Delve</a> - Embeddings/LLM, Ingest Scalability</li>
      <li>2024 <a href="https://acuity.health/">Acuity Health</a> - HealthIndex, Transformer/LLM Research</li>
      <li>2024 <a href="https://www.arclet.com/">Arclet</a> - Fractional CTO</li>
      <li>2024 <a href="https://thedinnerdaily.com/">Dinner Daily</a> - Fractional CTO</li>
      <li>2024 Brumby Horse - Supported FastAI Weight Prediction Model</li>
      <li>2024 Limitless 3D Prints - Tech Leadership</li>
      <li>2024-2026 <a href="https://github.com/thinknimble/tn-cli">TN CLI</a></li>
      <li>2023-24 <a href="https://www.capitalpride.org/">Capital Pride App</a> - Load Testing & Architecture</li>
      <li>2023-24 Lexx - Engineering Plan, Recommender System, UX Redesign</li>
      <li>2023 Alignment View - 360-degree Video Processing, ThreeJS</li>
      <li>2023 <a href="https://www.projectbasta.com/">Project Basta</a> - Student/Job Match Scoring</li>
      <li>2023 <a href="https://www.manual.care/">Manual</a> - Video Encoding and Transcription Pipeline</li>
      <li>2023 <a href="https://thedinnerdaily.com/">Dinner Daily</a> - Maintenance and Migration Plan</li>
      <li>2023 Julep - Tech Leadership, React Native</li>
      <li>2023 <a href="https://spurlocal.org">SpurLocal</a> - Site Rebrand</li>
      <li>2023 <a href="https://www.airtechnologiesinc.com/">Air Technologies</a> - Discovery, Architecture</li>
      <li>2023 VueNome - Discovery, Architecture</li>
      <li>2022 <a href="https://storyraise.com">Yearly Report / Storyraise</a> - App Rebuild</li>
      <li>2022 Worthy Mentoring 2.0 - React Native CI/CD Pipeline</li>
      <li>2022 <a href="https://squirreledu.co/">Squirrel</a> - Financial Literacy Video Game</li>
      <li>2022 Swoopt - Ticket Syncing Service</li>
      <li>2022 <a href="https://www.bysavi.com/">Savi</a> - API Proxy & Webhooks Service</li>
      <li>2022 uand2 - Two-sided market + Network Visualization</li>
      <li>2021 <a href="https://www.joinpropio.com/">NanEd/Propio</a> - Technical Management</li>
      <li>2021 <a href="https://www.bysavi.com/">Savi</a> - Application Errors Analysis (ML)</li>
      <li>2020 <a href="https://office.thinknimble.com/">The ThinkNimble Office</a> - Unity HTML5 Experiment</li>
      <li>2020 Antique Stories - React Native, In-App Purchases</li>
      <li>2020 <a href="https://lightenarrangements.com/">Lighten</a> - Staff Portal, Album Manager</li>
      <li>2020 <a href="https://workwithcanary.com/">Canary</a> - Hardship Loans Platform</li>
      <li>2020 <a href="https://github.com/thinknimble/tn-models-fp">tn-models</a> - JavaScript API patterns library</li>
      <li>2020 <a href="https://github.com/thinknimble/tn-utils">tn-utils</a> - JavaScript utilities library</li>
      <li>2020 <a href="https://github.com/thinknimble/tn-harvester">tn-reports, tn-harvester</a> - Internal reporting tool</li>
      <li>2020 YIA Event Hub - Pandemic virtual conference platform</li>
      <li>2020 <a href="https://glowmode.com/">Glowmode</a> - React Native + In-App Purchases</li>
      <li>2019 Changeroots - React Native Candidate Comparison</li>
      <li>2019 <a href="https://github.com/thinknimble/tn-bootstrapper">tn-bootstrapper</a> v1.0</li>
      <li>2019 <a href="https://www.bysavi.com/">Savi</a> - Plaid Integration</li>
      <li>2019 <a href="https://www.bysavi.com/">Savi</a> - Loan Repayments Calculator</li>
      <li>2019 <a href="https://www.bysavi.com/">Savi</a> - PSLF Calculator</li>
      <li>2019 <a href="https://www.spotandtango.com/">Spot & Tango</a> - Unkibble Animated Marketing Website</li>
      <li>2019 <a href="https://www.spotandtango.com/">Spot & Tango</a> - Subscription Calculator & Service</li>
      <li>2019 <a href="https://www.leadmn.org/">LeadMN</a> - React Native App & Backend</li>
      <li>2019 Here to Career - React Native App & Backend</li>
      <li>2019 <a href="https://hopeforhenry.org/">Hope for Henry</a> - Survey Video Game</li>
      <li>2019 <a href="https://www.edsights.io/">EdSights</a> - VueJS + Django App, Infrastructure</li>
      <li>2019 Dressmate - Clothing Resale Platform</li>
      <li>2019 Imby - Matching Algorithm</li>
      <li>2018 Festi - React Native Mobile App</li>
      <li>2018 Pact Survey</li>
      <li>2018 CFP - Legacy PHP Site</li>
      <li>2018 CFP - Board Match Site</li>
      <li>2018 Givebutter - Quickbooks and Lob Integrations</li>
      <li>2018 CFP - Learning Commons Site</li>
      <li>2018 Soil Nerd - Soil Analysis Calculator</li>
      <li>2018 TopKnott - Two-sided marketplace</li>
      <li>2017 FACE Addiction Website - WordPress</li>
      <li>2017 AllowIt / ClassPulse - React Native + FullStack</li>
      <li>2017 Ordway - Salesforce.com Integration</li>
      <li>2017 tn-marketing - First version of ThinkNimble's marketing site</li>
      <li>2017 Eastern Senior Highschool - WordPress</li>
      <li>2017 Park City Giving Guide - Holiday Donations Platform</li>
      <li>2017 Aspire - Operations Management Dashboard</li>
      <li>2017 Aspire - QBO Integration, Automated Invoicing & Bookkeeping</li>
      <li>2016 Aspire - Recommendation Algorithm</li>
      <li>2015 Aspire - Team Perks Platform</li>
      <li>2014 Alert! Alert! npm Package</li>
      <li>2014 Aspire - Personal Perks Platform (Co-Founded, scaled to $2M ARR, acquired)</li>
      <li>2014 Lucierna Redesign & Integration - A SmartBear acquisition</li>
      <li>2013 AlertSite UX Redesign / AngularJS Build</li>
      <li>2012 <a href="https://modavanti.com">Modavanti.com</a> - E-commerce for sustainable fashion</li>
      <li>2011 Compass Connect Social Network</li>
      <li>2011 Compass Mentor Training Platform</li>
      <li>2010 Compass WordPress-based Website</li>
      <li>2009 Compass Flash-based Website</li>
      <li>2008 A New Leaf - Subscription e-commerce</li>
      <li>2007 Fabretto - PHP Site</li>
    </ul>
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  <div class="four-thousand-weeks">
    <h2>My 4000 Weeks</h2>
    <p>Born September 24, 1987</p>
    <p class="stats">Week {{ weeks_lived }} of 4000 • {{ site.time | date: "%B %d, %Y" }}</p>
    <style>
      .four-thousand-weeks {
        margin-top: 2rem;
        text-align: center;
      }
      .four-thousand-weeks h2 {
        margin-bottom: 0.5rem;
      }
      .stats {
        font-size: 0.8rem;
        color: var(--text-color, #666);
        margin-bottom: 1rem;
      }
      .weeks-container {
        display: flex;
        flex-direction: column;
        max-width: 56rem;
        margin: 1rem auto;
        overflow-x: auto;
        padding-bottom: 1rem; /* Add padding for scrollbar */
      }
      .week-labels-row {
        display: flex;
        margin-bottom: 0.5rem;
        align-items: center;
        padding-bottom: 0.2rem;
        min-width: 32rem; /* Match year-row width */
      }
      .year-label {
        font-size: 0.8rem;
        width: 3rem;
        text-align: right;
        margin-right: 0.5rem;
        font-weight: bold;
        flex-shrink: 0;
      }
      .year-row {
        display: flex;
        margin-bottom: 0.3rem;
        height: 1.1rem;
        align-items: center;
        min-width: 32rem; /* Ensure minimum width for horizontal scrolling */
      }
      .half-year {
        display: flex;
        min-width: 15rem; /* Ensure minimum width for dots */
      }
      .half-separator {
        width: 0.7rem;
        flex-shrink: 0;
      }
      .week-dot {
        width: 0.45rem;
        height: 0.45rem;
        border-radius: 50%;
        margin: 0 0.05rem;
        display: inline-block;
        box-sizing: border-box;
      }
      .week-label {
        font-size: 0.7rem;
        color: var(--text-color, #666);
        font-weight: bold;
      }
      .week-lived {
        background-color: var(--text-color, #333);
        border: 1px solid var(--text-color, #333);
      }
      .week-current {
        background-color: #ff5252;
        border: 1px solid #ff5252;
        position: relative;
        z-index: 1;
      }
      .week-birth {
        background-color: #52a9ff;
        border: 1px solid #52a9ff;
        position: relative;
        z-index: 1;
      }
      .week-remaining {
        background-color: transparent;
        border: 1px solid var(--text-color, #333);
      }
      @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
        .week-lived {
          background-color: var(--text-color, #eee);
          border: 1px solid var(--text-color, #eee);
        }
        .week-current {
          background-color: #ff5252;
          border: 1px solid #ff5252;
        }
        .week-birth {
          background-color: #52a9ff;
          border: 1px solid #52a9ff;
        }
        .week-remaining {
          background-color: transparent;
          border: 1px solid var(--text-color, #eee);
        }
      }
    </style>
    <div class="weeks-container">
      <!-- Week labels -->
      <div class="week-labels-row">
        <div class="year-label"></div>
        
        <div class="half-year" style="position: relative;">
          <span class="week-label" style="position: absolute; left: 0.1rem;">1</span>
          <span class="week-label" style="position: absolute; right: 0.1rem;">26</span>
          {% for week_num in (1..26) %}
            <span class="week-dot" style="visibility: hidden;"></span>
          {% endfor %}
        </div>
        
        <div class="half-separator"></div>
        
        <div class="half-year" style="position: relative;">
          <span class="week-label" style="position: absolute; left: 0.1rem;">27</span>
          <span class="week-label" style="position: absolute; right: 0.1rem;">52</span>
          {% for week_num in (1..26) %}
            <span class="week-dot" style="visibility: hidden;"></span>
          {% endfor %}
        </div>
      </div>
      
      {% comment %}
      Calculate date values and week numbers
      {% endcomment %}
      {% comment %}
      Get birth date and current date in seconds
      {% endcomment %}
      {% assign birth_timestamp = "1987-09-24" | date: "%s" | plus: 0 %}
      {% assign current_timestamp = site.time | date: "%s" | plus: 0 %}
      
      {% comment %}
      Calculate seconds lived and convert to days then weeks
      Divide by seconds in a day (86400) then divide by 7 for weeks
      {% endcomment %}
      {% assign seconds_lived = current_timestamp | minus: birth_timestamp %}
      {% assign days_lived = seconds_lived | divided_by: 86400 %}
      {% assign weeks_lived = days_lived | divided_by: 7 %}
      
      {% comment %}
      For debugging, you can uncomment this and hardcode values when testing locally
      But the above calculation will be dynamic based on site.time when deployed
      {% endcomment %}
      {% comment %}
      {% assign weeks_lived = 1949 %}
      {% endcomment %}

      {% comment %}
      Calculate absolute week number where birth is week 1
      {% endcomment %}
      {% assign total_weeks = 4000 %}
      {% assign weeks_per_year = 52 %}
      {% assign half_year = 26 %}
      {% assign total_years = total_weeks | divided_by: weeks_per_year %}

      {% comment %}
      Calculate birth week position within first year (1987) dynamically
      {% endcomment %}
      {% assign jan1_1987 = "1987-01-01" | date: "%s" | plus: 0 %}
      {% assign seconds_to_birth = birth_timestamp | minus: jan1_1987 %}
      {% assign days_to_birth = seconds_to_birth | divided_by: 86400 %}
      {% assign birth_week_of_year = days_to_birth | divided_by: 7 | plus: 1 %}
      
      {% comment %}
      Create a week counter starting from 1
      {% endcomment %}
      {% assign absolute_week = 1 %}
      
      {% for year in (1987..2063) %}
        {% assign week_in_year = 1 %}
        
        <div class="year-row">
          <div class="year-label">{{ year }}</div>
          
          <!-- First half of the year -->
          <div class="half-year">
            {% for week_num in (1..26) %}
              {% if year == 1987 and week_num < birth_week_of_year %}
                <span class="week-dot week-remaining" title="Before birth ({{ year }}, Week {{ week_num }})"></span>
              {% elsif year == 1987 and week_num == birth_week_of_year %}
                <span class="week-dot week-birth" title="Birth Week! ({{ year }}, Week {{ week_num }})"></span>
                {% assign absolute_week = absolute_week | plus: 1 %}
              {% elsif absolute_week <= weeks_lived %}
                {% if absolute_week == weeks_lived %}
                  <span class="week-dot week-current" title="Current Week {{ absolute_week }} of 4000 ({{ year }}, Week {{ week_num }})"></span>
                {% else %}
                  <span class="week-dot week-lived" title="Week {{ absolute_week }} of 4000 ({{ year }}, Week {{ week_num }})"></span>
                {% endif %}
                {% assign absolute_week = absolute_week | plus: 1 %}
              {% else %}
                <span class="week-dot week-remaining" title="Week {{ absolute_week }} of 4000 ({{ year }}, Week {{ week_num }})"></span>
                {% assign absolute_week = absolute_week | plus: 1 %}
              {% endif %}
              {% assign week_in_year = week_in_year | plus: 1 %}
            {% endfor %}
          </div>
          
          <!-- Separator between half years -->
          <div class="half-separator"></div>
          
          <!-- Second half of the year -->
          <div class="half-year">
            {% for week_num in (27..52) %}
              {% if year == 1987 and week_num < birth_week_of_year %}
                <span class="week-dot week-remaining" title="Before birth ({{ year }}, Week {{ week_num }})"></span>
              {% elsif year == 1987 and week_num == birth_week_of_year %}
                <span class="week-dot week-birth" title="Birth Week! ({{ year }}, Week {{ week_num }})"></span>
                {% assign absolute_week = absolute_week | plus: 1 %}
              {% elsif absolute_week <= weeks_lived %}
                {% if absolute_week == weeks_lived %}
                  <span class="week-dot week-current" title="Current Week {{ absolute_week }} of 4000 ({{ year }}, Week {{ week_num }})"></span>
                {% else %}
                  <span class="week-dot week-lived" title="Week {{ absolute_week }} of 4000 ({{ year }}, Week {{ week_num }})"></span>
                {% endif %}
                {% assign absolute_week = absolute_week | plus: 1 %}
              {% else %}
                <span class="week-dot week-remaining" title="Week {{ absolute_week }} of 4000 ({{ year }}, Week {{ week_num }})"></span>
                {% assign absolute_week = absolute_week | plus: 1 %}
              {% endif %}
              {% assign week_in_year = week_in_year | plus: 1 %}
            {% endfor %}
          </div>
        </div>
      {% endfor %}
    </div>
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