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I'm Rachel, welcome to my developer website.
I'm a strong independent learner with an interest in health and wellness and a love of web development.
Developed with Cordova, Rachel has published a number of apps on iOS and Android from 2022-2025.
Cordova is a multi-platform framework that allows compiling one set of code for both iOS and Android. Apps are written in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
Here are a few utility apps and small games made by Rachel:
Written in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, and deployed on self-hosted Apache with full stack development or hosted with Wordpress, here are a few websites maintained by Rachel.
Rachel has a strong technical background and ability to complete projects with attention to detail.
A passion for community-driven development, Rachel has contributed to the Cordova project, with open source plugins for iOS and Android. Cordova is an open source initiative to with the goal of using one set of code to publish apps on the different app stores. Plugins are written in JavaScript, Java, and Objective C.
These plugins allow any user to monetize an app written in Cordova with ads or in-app purchases.
Whale Wiggle is a relaxing game where you can jiggle a whale to relaxing music with encouraging statements that appear to inspire you. The whale is programmed with a unique algorithm involving linear algebra and many layers. Whale Wiggle is a beautiful relaxing app.
The Days Since app lets you keep track of the number of days, months, weeks, or hours since an event. One or two events can show up on the main screen, while the right screen shows every event being tracked.
The kitchen unit converter lets you convert between units for any food item in the kitchen. Volume and weight can be converted, for example 1 cup of chicken weights a third pound or 5.5 ounces.
The Knife Cuts app shows different culinary knife cuts and their accurate sizes on the phone. It's made for use in the kitchen to accurately see different cuts of meat or vegetables true to their size.
The temperature converter app lets you convert between units of temperature. From farenheit and celcius to kelvin and rankine.
Pure Spa Soap is our soap business that sells handmade artisan soap bars. The site is self-hosted on Apache with Stripe and PayPal as third-party payment processors. Guests can browse a number of soap bars and checkout with discount codes, shipping, and cart notes.
Miriam Clavir's website is maintained by Rachel. It runs on WordPress. Rachel keeps the site up to date, runs backups, and manages edits. She also looked into making child themes for WordPress to edit the look of the site.
Cozycode is the name of website that showed Rachel's developer work previously. The website focused on app development including Cordova apps for iOS and Android, open source plugins for Cordova, and a blog on creating apps with Cordova.
RecipeSite is the name of a website that displays a recipe blog and also hosts a software program for storing and viewing recipes. The website is self-hosted on Apache and runs with a python back-end. The software program uses web technology to host a website locally and opens a browser to view, search, and edit recipes.
Big year birding is a family website dedicated to logging and sharing sightings of birds in the world. It is self-hosted on Apache with a PHP back-end. A mail server is maintained to send weekly updates.
Rachel wrote a couple of plugins to allow more monetization options for Cordova apps including in app purchases. The in app purchases plugin took 1 month to update from previous implementations. It uses asynchronous Java calls to fetch information from the app stores without interrupting the program.
The Cordova ads plugin allows programmers to place Google ads within their Cordova apps. Rachel created a simple JavaScript API for developers to use that makes it easy to integrate ads.