Kyle Reicks

A Web Developer and Digital Strategist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Personal Projects

A few of the projects I have up on GitHub.

Lazy Load Images with SVG Placeholders

This plugin generates inline SVG placeholders for images in post content, then uses Intersection Observers to load the full image when it comes into view.

Create SVG maps from GEOJSON data. You can see and example of this in the background of this page. Data from Open Data Minneapolis is used to generate a map of my neighborhood. The colored rectangles on the roads are the ~current locations of Metro Transit buses, color-coded by direction of travel. Using data from Metro Transit

WP Resource Integrity

Add integrity and crossorigin attributes to WordPress resources.

WordPress Auto Summary

An auto-summary utility. Inspired by autotldr and SMMRY Generates an auto summary from the post content that can then optionally be added to the excerpt.

Web Components in WordPress

An experiment in native web components. Creates a component-accordion element, which generates an ARIA compliant accordion module.

Matrix3d-snowflakes

A fun experiment in JavaScript aided CSS 3D animation. Hat-tip to Marc Grabanski who provided inspiration with his October 2013 presentation to the JavaScriptMN Meetup Group.