Jared Morton
.NET Developer Senior Software Engineer Software Architect
Hi, I'm Jared, a .NET developer who's spent the last decade or so building web applications for logistics, benefits administration, and fleet compliance companies. Most days, that means tracking down a slow SQL query, untangling a gnarly bug, or building something new from scratch. My day-to-day stack is C#, ASP.NET (MVC/Razor Pages), SQL Server, and a healthy mix of HTML and CSS.
Apps
All appsSmall, self-contained apps for everyday use. Free, no sign-up, and no ads. The front three follow Michigan's calendar.
Local Events
Concerts, sports, and things to do near your location or any US city or ZIP, filterable by category, price, and distance.
Michigan Outdoor Hub
Every DNR-powered outdoor app in one place: lakes, trout streams, paddling, waterfalls, trails, campgrounds, and morels. Set your location once and each app opens already looking around it.
Weather
Hour-by-hour temperature and rain chance, active alerts, a 7-day outlook, and local radar for your current location or any city or ZIP, straight from the National Weather Service.
Copilot Usage
This month's GitHub Copilot AI-credit usage from a fine-grained token: percent of your allotment used, the daily pace to stay on budget, and how long your credits last. Your token stays in your browser.
Financial Hub
Every money app in one place: long- and short-horizon market picks scored from real price history, a snowball-versus-avalanche debt planner, and a reseller's closet ledger.
Garden Soil Planner
Turn an MSU home soil test into a plan: rates become cups of fertilizer and bags of compost, lime follows MSU's E-471 guidance for your soil type, and every application you log stays in this browser.
Hunting Conditions
A hunting outlook for your current location: weather, pressure trend, wind, moon phase, solunar feeding times, a compass-aware wind-and-stand map, and a 7-day movement score.
Maintenance Log
Car and home maintenance on a cycle: oil changes, filters, smoke-detector batteries. Log each job when it's done, see what's overdue at a glance, and get an optional push reminder on the day it comes due.
News
Local, state, national, and global headlines from established outlets, one card per story with other coverage linked. Local follows your location or any city or ZIP. No tabloids, no sign-up.
Similar Song Finder
Connect Spotify, pick songs from a playlist, and get one combined list of similar tracks from Last.fm, MusicAtlas, and Deezer. Play matches and add them to your playlists in the browser.
Thrift Store Finder
Thrift, charity, and secondhand stores near you or any U.S. city or ZIP, a tap from their public reviews. Save your favorite stores and nickname the good ones.
What to Watch
Movies and shows you can stream at no extra cost, labeled with the services carrying them and searchable by title. Check off what you've already seen and more surfaces to take its place.
Workout Hub
Every workout app in one place: build a dumbbell or machine session for the time you have, and the log both of them write to. Your history stays in this browser.
Guides
All guidesDeep dives into subjects worth getting right, from coding write-ups to field guides drawn from firsthand experience.
Au Sable River Fishing Guide
An angler's guide to the Au Sable's fabled Holy Waters: a current fishing report, the month-by-month hatch chart, where to wade and float, and the flies-only etiquette.
CSS Flexbox: Interactive Guide
Adjust a live flex container's properties with up to six boxes and watch the generated CSS update in real time, ready to copy into your own stylesheet.
GitHub Actions: CI/CD Workflow Guide
Set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions: workflow anatomy, triggers, secrets, caching, and a complete .NET build-and-test pipeline.
Deploy a Vue.js App to AWS with Docker
Ship a Vue build two ways: static to S3 and CloudFront, or containerized with Docker and run on EC2 through ECR, with SPA routing handled correctly on both.
Font Awesome 4: Icon Override Guide
Override Font Awesome 4 icon rendering using CSS only, with no extra markup required: swap the glyph a class renders while leaving your generated HTML untouched.
Mobile Overlay Header: Implementation Guide
Build a header that collapses into an expandable overlay on mobile and renders as a full static bar on desktop, with the breakpoint set at 1200px and up.
Select2 on Bootstrap 4: Theme Migration Guide
Make a jQuery Select2 dropdown match Bootstrap 4 the elegant way: swap its theme for a maintained Bootstrap 4 theme in two lines instead of hand-rolling override CSS.
Single-Player Pong: Implementation Guide
A very basic single-player Pong game built with HTML5 Canvas and vanilla JavaScript, covering paddle movement, ball physics, and simple scoring.
Tools
All toolsFree, browser-based utilities. Nothing you paste into them ever leaves your machine.
JSON Workbench
Format, validate, minify, and sort JSON entirely in your browser, then generate C# classes from it with one click. Nothing you paste leaves your machine.
SQL Update Script Builder
A visual tool for building parameterized SQL UPDATE statements: manage the SET and WHERE clauses column by column and get a consistent, typo-free script out.
VB6 Resurrector
Drop a classic Visual Basic 6 .frm file and watch the form run in your browser, events and all. Then convert it to a modern Razor view, Bootstrap layout, and C# view model.
.NET Regex Explainer
Paste a regular expression and get a plain-English breakdown piece by piece, with .NET-specific constructs like balancing groups and inline options called out, plus a live tester and a RegexOptions reference.
.NET Stack Trace Beautifier
Paste a raw .NET exception and get a readable trace: async state machines demangled, inner exceptions chained, framework noise dimmed, and your code highlighted.
Cron Expression Explainer
Type a cron expression and get a plain-English description, a field-by-field breakdown, and the next run times in UTC and local time.
CSV Insert Generator
Turn a CSV file or a table screenshot into a CREATE TABLE script, batched SQL INSERT statements, and a matching C# class, with column types inferred from your data.
Href Path Encoder
Paste a file path or URL with spaces and get the fully encoded, href-safe version, backslashes flipped for the web, with one-click copy.
Lorem Ipsum Generator
Placeholder text by the paragraph, sentence, or word, with the classic 'Lorem ipsum dolor' opening optional and one-click copy for dropping into mockups.
Unix Timestamp Converter
Paste a Unix epoch timestamp and read it back as a date in UTC, your local time, and ISO 8601, with seconds or milliseconds detected automatically. Turn a date the other way too, and watch the current epoch tick.