Jayson Rice

Native plants are great for local wildlife, but it's hard to know which ones actually belong where you live. Pick your county and the app shows your ecoregion, the native plants recorded near you, and how many caterpillar species each one feeds.

Next I want to turn it into a place where gardeners can trade, give away, or sell their extra plants and seed.

• C# API with Entity Framework and PostgreSQL, and a React front end written in TypeScript
• Clickable maps drawn with d3 and colored by ecoregion
• An importer that turns public USDA, EPA, and Census data into the app's database, including working out which ecoregions each county falls in
• Built with Claude Code

I was tired of seeing social media posts by family and friends that were outrageous and dumb. Pet's Please is a single page application that allows users to save pictures of their pets to view on a main social media feed. Users can follow other users to see their pet pictures as well. You can tailor your experience by following good pet photographers and using the ability to filter by animal type. It makes for a great stress free social media app!

• Front end capstone project built in React using JSON server to store user and pet information
• Full CRUD functionality allows users to maintain pet info
• Photos stored using Cloudinary's image services

Frame Advance was built with competitors in mind. I personally compete in Super Smash Bros Melee tournaments, and the best way to improve is generally to analyze your past tournament games. Users can create a post with a YouTube link and create timestamps of notable moments in the video to write notes about. This way, users will have a convenient database of their own notes with video reference available.

Users can also find reviews by other people if they don't want to review their own footage to learn.

Note: This recording didn't capture my dropdowns so the filtering process looks a little weird

This was a code challenge issued by Tandem to apply for one of their Apprenticeship Programs. Entrants had a week to submit their code using any language they prefer.

Application Requirements

• A round of trivia has 10 Questions
• All questions are multiple-choice questions
• Questions should not repeat in a round.
• Questions with their multiple choice options must be displayed one at a time.
• A user can select only 1 answer out of the 4 possible answers.
• The correct answer must be revealed after a user has submitted their answer.
• A user can see the score they received at the end of the round

This project was a deviation from normal web development but it was a big step in learning how to problem solve in JS with an unfamiliar library. There was a lot of work that went into creating assets, math/physics, and game design decisions as well.

I've written a Medium article on the development of this game that you can find here if you want to learn more. Since then we've kept adding features and are planning on releasing it in the Google Play Store.

Built during my Vue workshop class, this was an app I built specifically to get more practice with state management using Vuex. Working with the SeatGeek API made this project very fun to build.

Nutshell was a made up product our remote team was tasked with building in 4 days. It's a dashboard for people to use to organize their daily tasks, events, news articles, friends, and chat messages. We focused on implementing JSON server, CRUD functionality, event listeners and proper use of Github in a remote setting.
This was our last front end project before learning React.js.

Tabloid was a 2 week sprint that allowed our group to practice incorperating client side and back end code. As a group of 4, we often tackeled our tickets through pair programming with regular meetups to track progress and recieve help when necessary. This was our most complicated app yet, mostly from making sure all API calls were from users with the correct permissions.(Authors, admins, not logged in)