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Software Wizard, Guru, & Toolmaker


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Profiles:
LinkedIn Careers 2.0
Websites I have built (or partly built--see below) over the last three decades or so. I've left off a dozen or so sites that are not different enough, interesting enough, or important enough to be worth mentioning.
HyperSpace-Express
HyperSpace Express is a small, independant multi-media publishing company; it's a partnership co-owned by Naomi Rivkis and Steve Savitzky. Current projects include Naomi's books, and Steve's music.
Naomi-Rivkis.com
Naomi's first book, The World As It Ought to Be, was published in October, 2025.
colleens-closet.com
A year or so ago we were considering adding fabric art to our business. That might still happen, but we're concentrating on text and music at the moment.
 
thestarport.org
... also known as Grand Central Starport, which is what we called our house in San Jose. It was always full of guests, mostly in the SCA and SF fandom communities. The site started out as starport.com, but I sold the domain one year when I was short of cash. I have a few regrets.
 
savitzky.net
My nephew grabbed savitzky.com before I thought of it. That's okay; I like .net.
steve.savitzky.net
My main personal site.
Stephen.Savitzky.net
The site you're looking at right now. It was bult as a portfolio site back in 2012 when I had just moved to Seattle and was looking for work. I eventually found some, but as far as I can tell the site had nothing to do with it.
rainbows-end.net
About a year after Colleen and I moved to Seattle and joined forces with N and her family, we bought a large house in West Seattle which we called "Rainbow's End". This became my main family/household site. It still is, despite having moved multiple times since then -- first to Whidbey Island, then back to Seattle after Colleen's death, then to The Hague, with an assortment of rentals in between.
rainbows-end.net/Bridge -- the "Rainbow Bridge" page -- was added when my cat, Curio, crossed over in 2015; it has, unfortunately, accumulated several other memorial pages since then.
Going-Sideways.blog
This is one of several websites that N had professionally designed for her, and then turned over to me to manage neglect. It's here and not the others because I completely rebuilt it using a block theme, which was a fairly new thing at the time.
 
Lookingglass Folk
KaleidoFolk
My two most recent bands. I started the first, Tres-Gique, a few weeks before my 60th birthday. (That one's not listed because the site was designed and built by my oldest kid as a school project.)
ssavitzky.github.io
A blog hosted on GitHub Pages, using the Jekyll static site generator.
computer-curmudgeon
This one uses the same layout, but it's generated by gojekyll (written in Go, unlike Jekyll which is written in Ruby) so as to place less of a burden on my web host. I vaguely hoped that it could be monetized, but I'm no good at marketing. Same problem as GoingSideways.
 
RiSource.org/ (1999-2003)
The PIA was an open-source, server-side templating engine with XML syntax and Lisp-like semantics. You could think of it as the web equivalent of a macro processor. We distributed it on a now-defunct site called RiSource.org (the link points to a mirror).
 
Not listed:
Websites for two more bands, a few sites for projects that never got off the ground, a couple more that N had professionally designed, and a few jokes.