Personal site of Brooks Groves — developer, writer, and outdoorsman based in Tacoma, WA.
Live at brooksgroves.com
A hand-built static site serving as home base for projects, writing, reading, and sports. No frameworks, no build step — just HTML, CSS, and a few lines of vanilla JS. Hosted on GitHub Pages with a custom domain via Cloudflare.
- Projects — geospatial dashboards, environmental monitors, baseball analytics, and more
- Blog — technical writing on Python, R, geospatial tools, and data pipelines
- Journal — field notes, race dispatches, and things worth remembering
- Reading — current stack and recent reads
- Sports — MLB (Mariners), NFL, pro cycling, running, and triathlon
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| EDGAR | Mariners & Rainiers automated stats dashboard |
| RIDGELINE | WUI search & rescue call volume analysis |
| Sierra Streamflow | Live USGS stream gage monitor for Sierra Nevada watersheds |
| Weather Report Bot | Automated weather cards posted to Twitter & Bluesky |
- Pure HTML/CSS/JS — no build tooling
- Hosted on GitHub Pages
- DNS via Cloudflare Registrar
- Fonts: Playfair Display, Libre Baskerville, DM Mono (Google Fonts)
No build step required. Just open index.html in a browser or serve it locally:
python -m http.server 8000Then visit http://localhost:8000.
Pacific Northwest · 47.6° N, 122.3° W