https://roberskine.com/work Case studies and projects by Rob Erskine. en-us Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:51:54 GMT https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/pod-predictions https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/pod-predictions Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT I started watching Love Is Blind with my wife Molly (a little reluctantly, for the record). By the time the couples left the pods I was hooked, and the best part wasn't even the show. It was calling how each couple would end up. We wanted an easy way to swap predictions with our… Fun Work https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/bump-name-match https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/bump-name-match Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:54:00 GMT Naming a tiny human is a lot of pressure. It's the first thing you ever give them, and they're stuck with it for, you know, forever (no pressure). When my wife and I were preparing to welcome our first daughter into the world, it was so uninspiring using the existing tools that… Fun Work https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/wash-yo-hands https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/wash-yo-hands Wed, 08 Jul 2020 01:59:00 GMT I built an Alexa Skill that takes a hook or a chorus from a popular dance song and plays it at random when you wash your hands so you can make sure you wash for the recommended amount of time. Fun Work https://roberskine.com/work/pro-work/frontier https://roberskine.com/work/pro-work/frontier Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:39:00 GMT When Hill Holliday won the Frontier Communications business in April of 2018 I was pretty excited to start working on their digital properties. Frontier Communications provides high-speed internet, video, tv & phone services. They have a lot of competition, obviously, in that… Professional Work https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/baebot-biz https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/baebot-biz Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:47:00 GMT I used to live with Jess Whittaker , a crazy talented copywriter. One evening we were up late in the living room of our apartment, watching trashy TV (of course), and she was telling me about how much she hated how this person she was dating wouldn't text her back. I think I… Fun Work https://roberskine.com/work/pro-work/cosentyx-com https://roberskine.com/work/pro-work/cosentyx-com Fri, 04 Oct 2019 14:06:00 GMT Professional Work https://roberskine.com/work/pro-work/monster-pain-in-the-as https://roberskine.com/work/pro-work/monster-pain-in-the-as Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:51:00 GMT Professional Work https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/is-ja-rule-in-jail https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/is-ja-rule-in-jail Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:52:00 GMT After watching the two Fyre Festival documentaries on both Netflix and Hulu , it was pretty crazy to me that Ja Rule didn't get any jail time for his involvement in the festival. I thought it was only a matter of time before he would be sentenced for scamming all of those… Fun Work https://roberskine.com/work/pro-work/partycity-com https://roberskine.com/work/pro-work/partycity-com Mon, 10 Sep 2018 22:13:00 GMT With 150,000 products, 60,000 categories, and increasingly high customer expectations for buying online, the website is integral to their business but was seeing year-over-year decreases in sales and organic search traffic. Professional Work https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/death-is-certain-bot https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/death-is-certain-bot Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:56:00 GMT In one of our daily standups, my old colleague and good friend, Michael was having a pretty bad morning. I think he had a crappy commute and the feature that he was working on was taking longer than he expected. Instead of being miserable during his turn giving updates, he typed… Fun Work https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/slack-neon-sign https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/slack-neon-sign Sat, 20 Jan 2018 03:40:00 GMT The Backstory of this Slack Bot Two weeks ago or so, I was sitting in Boston Logan Airport waiting for my flight to Las Vegas to meet up for my good friend's 30th birthday party. Unfortunately, the Bomb Cyclone snowstorm struck the day before, and my chances of getting out were… Fun Work https://roberskine.com/work/nonprofit-work/saved-by-the-scan https://roberskine.com/work/nonprofit-work/saved-by-the-scan Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:28:00 GMT Using Technology to Detect Lung Cancer Now, however, we can detect lung cancer early with a routine screening — the low-dose CT scan. At Hill Holliday, our mission was to create a message that would lift the stigma surrounding lung cancer, and empower former smokers to start… Nonprofit Work https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/mocking https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/mocking Wed, 12 Jul 2017 01:21:00 GMT mOcKiNG is a chrome extension that replaces all text on the website you are on with the SpongeBob "mocking" meme text treatment. It takes every dom element that contains text, and then shuffles them to either be in lowercase or uppercase, and then replaces the existing string… Fun Work https://roberskine.com/work/pro-work/brigham-health-hub https://roberskine.com/work/pro-work/brigham-health-hub Sat, 20 May 2017 14:58:00 GMT The Problem Brigham and Women’s Hospital is consistently ranked as one of the top hospitals in the country but has little awareness outside New England. And in the evolving healthcare space, BWH needed to evolve their positioning as that of a leader in health and advances in… Professional Work https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/cowsay-please https://roberskine.com/work/fun-work/cowsay-please Sun, 26 Jun 2016 20:13:00 GMT $ fortune | cowsay This command was one of the first I was taught when I first started playing around with the Terminal. It was a way for me to learn different commands and how pipes and parameters worked. I also set it up in my bash profile to open every time I opened a new… Fun Work https://roberskine.com/work/nonprofit-work/world-ocean-school https://roberskine.com/work/nonprofit-work/world-ocean-school Thu, 26 May 2016 00:09:00 GMT World Ocean School is a 501c3 organization that provides experiential educational opportunities for at-risk youth in Boston and St Croix aboard a 90-year-old schooner, The Roseway. A dedicated crew devotes themselves not only to the boat but to their students as well. Nonprofit Work https://roberskine.com/work/pro-work/edward-kennedy https://roberskine.com/work/pro-work/edward-kennedy Fri, 20 May 2016 19:30:00 GMT The Edward M. Kennedy (EMK) Institute was having trouble resonating with a younger audience. The EMK Institute museum is nothing short of incredible. It's a fully immersive experience that details what people in the Senate is really like. Complete with interactive experiences,… Professional Work https://roberskine.com/work/pro-work/hhcc-com https://roberskine.com/work/pro-work/hhcc-com Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:11:00 GMT In 2016, we had the opportunity to rebrand Hill Holliday. As part of the initiative, we had to reintroduce the brand to the world online. I was tasked with being the lead dev on the project, on top of all of my other work. I worked within a super close team to launch the initial… Professional Work https://roberskine.com/work/nonprofit-work/craft-user-manual https://roberskine.com/work/nonprofit-work/craft-user-manual Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:45:00 GMT I'm not going to lie, Craft Content Management System (CMS) is the absolute best. It was my first foray into full-stack development. It took concepts that I already understood on the frontend, and made them really easy to understand on the backend. I joined the community,… Nonprofit Work https://roberskine.com/work/nonprofit-work/one-boston-day https://roberskine.com/work/nonprofit-work/one-boston-day Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:11:00 GMT I remember where I was at the Boston bombing terrorist attacks in 2013. I was at work, even though we had the day off. I get a lot more done in the office than I usually do at home. The phones were so jammed I didn't know what happened until hours later. My good friend and… Nonprofit Work