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    <h1>Robert Kuykendall <em>(KIRK-en-dahl)</em></h1>
    <h2>San Antonio, Texas</h2>
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        <h3>Contact</h3>
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            <li>Resume &mdash; <a href="/Kuykendall-Resume-2022.pdf">Kuykendall-Resume-2022.pdf</a></li>
            <li>Work &mdash; <a href="https://getcacheflow.com/">CacheFlow - Automate Deal-Closing With One Tool</a></li>
            <li>GitHub &mdash; <a href="https://github.com/rkuykendall">rkuykendall</a></li>
            <li>Hacker News &mdash; <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rkuykendall-com">rkuykendall-com</a></li>
            <li>Twitter &mdash; <a href="https://twitter.com/rkuykendall">rkuykendall</a></li>
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        <h3>Writing</h3>

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            My most successful project is  <a href="https://wheretostartreading.com/">Where to start reading</a>,
            a comic book reading recommendations wesbite which reaches 5-20k users per month (spiking alongside movie releases).
            The Python / Django code is on <a href="https://github.com/rkuykendall/wheretostartreading">github</a>.
            The most popular article, <a href="https://wheretostartreading.com/articles/spider-man/">
            Where to start reading Spider-Man comics</a> is usually right under Marvel and Wikipedia for the search
            <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=spider-man+comics&oq=spider-man+comics">"Spider-Man comics"</a>.
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            My only popular article not moved over to <em>Where to start reading</em> is
            <a href="/articles/classic-who-recommendations/">Classic Doctor Who recommended viewing
            list</a>, a list I put together while watching all 50 years of Doctor Who.
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        <h3>Open Source Libraries</h3>

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            <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/marvelous/0.0.1">Marvelous</a> (<a href="https://github.com/rkuykendall/marvelous">github</a>)
            &mdash; Python Library for interfacing with Marvel API, on PyPI.
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        <p><a href="https://github.com/formsy/formsy-react">Formsy</a> (contributor) &mdash; A form input builder and validator for React JS</p>

        <p><a href="https://github.com/mighty-justice/fields-ant">@mighty-justice/fields-ant</a> &mdash; Library with CRUD UI components for Ant Design</p>
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        <h3>Projects</h3>

        <p><a href="https://simplici7y.com/">Simplici7y</a> &mdash; File sharing downloads for the Marathon Aleph One community. Download community created maps, scenarios, mods, scripts, and applications.</p>

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            Weekly Pulls (
            <a href="https://github.com/rkuykendall/weeklypulls-data">backend</a>,
            <a href="https://github.com/rkuykendall/weeklypulls-client">frontend</a>,
            <a href="https://github.com/rkuykendall/weeklypulls-marvel">api cache</a>
            ) &mdash; Personal comic reading list manager, automatically populated from the Marvel API
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        <p><a href="https://github.com/rkuykendall/movie-rankings">Movie Rankings</a> &mdash; Generates a master-list of my favorite movies by running ELO rankings on pairings generated from a folder of smaller ranking lists.</p>

        <p><a href="http://philogen.herokuapp.com/best">Philogen</a> (<a href="https://github.com/rkuykendall/philogen">github</a>) &mdash; Generate and vote on funny markov chains online, created for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philolexian_Society">Philolexian Society</a>.</p>

        <p><a href="http://mapworldnews.com/">Map World News</a> (<a href="https://github.com/rkuykendall/map-world-news">github</a>) &mdash; Visualization of sentiment on all world news sources, in Python/Flask and ES6/React.</p>

        <p><a href="https://github.com/rkuykendall/one-page-cms">one-page-cms (Github)</a> &mdash; Simple PHP, SQLite, markdown CMS in 300 lines</p>

        <p><a href="http://rkuykendall.github.io/html5-comic-book-reader/">HTML5 Comic Book Reader</a> (<a href="http://rkuykendall.github.io/html5-comic-book-reader/">github</a>) &mdash; Web Browser Comic Book Reader, forked from existing project in HTML5 and JS.</p>
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