I’m Johnathon Williams, and Made Thing is my personal weblog. I write and edit the site from Fayetteville, Arkansas, a nice little university town with plenty of coffee shops and bookstores, and one of the best libraries in the country.
I do a lot of different things, but first and foremost is the writing. I’m a contributing editor at Mac|Life Magazine, and other work has appeared in Linux.com, Hearing Health, AARP The Magazine, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Morning News, among other publications. I’m working on an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas, which means I can tell you pretty much anything you’ll ever need to know about iambic pentameter.
The rest of my living is Web stuff. Skill-wise, I’m a solid front-end developer (HTML & CSS), an intermediate PHP scripter, and a read-the-man-pages-and-cross-my-fingers kind of server administrator.
On the side, I’m the co-editor and designer of Linebreak.org, an online poetry magazine that publishes one original poem per week. With my Canon 30D, I produce the Arkansas Poets & Writers photo set, a record of the students, faculty, and visiting writers who pass through my MFA program. I take jacket and promotional photos when I’m asked. I consume between 300-700 milligrams of caffeine per day. I watch my lovely wife raise two amazing daughters. I never sleep.