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# About Casey Liss
Hi, I'm Casey. 👋🏻

I'm a [podcaster][p], [developer][git], and [writer][w]
living and working in the suburbs of [Richmond, Virginia, USA][ric]. I married
up (*way* up) and have somehow convinced my amazing wife, [Erin][erl], to stay
with me for [over two decades now][20].

On 29 October 2014, we were lucky enough to [welcome our son Declan][declan]
to the family. You may see many references to "Sprout" 
(🌱)
throughout this site; that was Declan's nickname in utero. More on what it took to bring
Declan into the world can be found in [this post][sprout].

A little over three years later, on 11 January 2018, we were given a second
gift; [our daughter, Mikaela][mikaela]. As with Declan, we discussed our 
journey to having Mikaela [before her birth][sprig]. (Her designated in utero nickname was "Sprig" &mdash; 🌿)

# My Work

You may know me from my podcast miniseries with friends [Marco Arment][ma] and
[John Siracusa][j], called [Neutral][n]. It ran from January through April of 2013.
After we stopped recording Neutral every week, we found ourselves often times talking
about technology, as three developers tend to do. Those casual post-show conversations
became the  [Accidental Tech Podcast][atp], which unofficially began in February of 2013,
but [formally began in March][atp1] of that year. ATP continues to release episodes weekly 
to this day.

In August of 2014, my friend [Myke Hurley][mh] and I [started][sa] recording [Analog(ue)][a].
This show aims to explore the feely bits rather than the thinky bits of our lives &mdash; both
online and off. As the tagline says, "There's space between zero and one". You can find
Analog(ue) on the podcast network Myke and [Stephen Hackett][ismh] created, [Relay][r].
We record monthly.

I am also an iOS app developer. I currently have three apps in the store:

* [Peek‑a‑View][pavas], which was [inspired by my daughter][pav]. 
* [MaskerAid][maskeraidas], which was [inspired by both my kids][maskeraid].
* [Callsheet][callsheetas], which [aims to be a not-crappy version of the IMDB app][callsheet].

Previously, I was the sole developer of an app called [Vignette][v]; 
Vignette has since [been retired][vr].

Occasionally, I speak on other shows, live, and contribute to written pieces. A list of those
appearances can be found [on this site][p].

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# About This Site
This site is a place for me to write, when I feel so inclined. While my Tumblr account was that place
from 2008 until 2014, I wanted to do what the cool kids do and write my own engine. You're reading this
page thanks to that engine.

The engine, which I'm calling "Camel", uses [Node][no], [Express][e], and [several other packages][cp]
for Node. The text is all written in [Markdown][m]; to see the source for any page, simply add `.md` to
the end of the URL. For example, [here][s] is this page's source.

I [open sourced Camel][c] (you can [find it on GitHub][gh]) in early May, 2014.

This site is presently hosted on [Linode][linode], on their smallest shared
instance, the "1GB Nanode". Before late summer 2022, it was hosted on [Heroku][h].

The CSS was written mostly by me, but with some essential adjustments by [Jakub Świadek][js]
to make the site quite a bit easier on the eyes.

The name, *@@SiteTitle@@*, was [a suggestion][name], but one that I am quite fond of.

The [favicon][icon] was found [here][iconlink].

As an [Amazon][amzn] [Associate][aa], I earn from qualifying purchases. Which is to say, I use affiliate
links for Amazon products where possible.

[git]: https://github.com/cliss
[p]: /elsewhere
[w]: /
[ric]: https://www.visitrichmondva.com
[erl]: https://twitter.com/erinliss
[20]: /2025/1/16/twenty
[declan]: /2014/10/30/declan
[sprout]: /2014/5/14/finally

[mikaela]: /2018/1/14/mikaela
[sprig]: /2017/8/17/same-as-it-ever-was

[ma]: http://www.marco.org/
[j]: http://hypercritical.co/
[n]: http://neutral.fm/
[atp]: http://atp.fm/
[atp0]: https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/299234141470343169
[atp1]: https://twitter.com/caseyliss/statuses/311240395612884992?tw_i=311240395612884992&tw_e=details&tw_p=archive
[mh]: http://mykehurley.net/
[sa]: /2014/8/11/announcing-analog
[a]: http://relay.fm/analogue/
[ismh]: http://512pixels.net/
[r]: http://relay.fm/

[pav]: /peek-a-view
[pavas]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/peek-a-view/id1491554407?ls=1
[maskeraid]: /maskeraid
[maskeraidas]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maskeraid/id1590163828
[callsheet]: https://callsheetapp.com/
[callsheetas]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callsheet-find-cast-crew/id1672356376
[v]: /2019/5/22/vignette
[vr]: /2020/8/26/rip-vignette


[no]: http://nodejs.org/
[e]: http://expressjs.com/
[cp]: https://github.com/cliss/camel/blob/master/package.json
[m]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[s]: /about.md
[c]: /2014/5/2/camel-open-sourced
[gh]: http://github.com/cliss/camel
[linode]: https://www.linode.com/
[js]: http://swiadek.org/
[h]: http://www.heroku.com/
[name]: https://twitter.com/bltitus/status/462303832802721792
[icon]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon
[iconlink]: https://thenounproject.com/term/thumbs-up/29570/
[amzn]: http://www.amazon.com/?tag=liismo-20
[aa]: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/home