Greg Hluska is a software developer, consultant and product founder based out of Regina, Canada.
Based out of Regina Canada, Greg Hluska is a product-obsessed software developer, consultant and founder. Educated in marketing, Greg has spent almost his entire career either in and around startups or providing startup level technical consulting for non profits. A gifted publisher and writer, Hluska won an award for his first publication and has since founded two more.
Outside of work and products, Greg is a proud parent to a nine year. They own a two year old cat with anger management problems. A lifelong baseball fan, he manages a fantasy baseball team and follows the New York Yankees religiously. Running long distances, learning about fitness, reading about economics and history and listening to music fill the rest of his time.
Founded by a startup founder in 2010, Greg Hluska Consulting specializes in helping companies solve their hardest technical problems. Sometimes that involves helping a very early stage founder build an MVP. Other times, it involves helping more established startups migrate their services over to AWS.
Starting in 2024, GHC started staffing highly skilled developers, designers and project managers on other projects. So whether you need a fractional CTO, an MVP or a whole team spun up, GHC can help you.
Do you want to scrape the content on here? Go ahead - scraping is a great way to learn the intricacies of our beautiful web and knowledge is meant to be free. My robots.txt file is extremely permissive and while I do secure against certain types of attacks, an ethical scraper would never run into problems.
If you have problems scraping the content on here, get in touch with me. If you will post your code somewhere, I can show you where you're going wrong.
This post introduces the latest update to hluska.ca along with the launch of a new accessibility-focused tool: SCSS Contrast – WCAG Grid. Designed for productive beginners like me, the tool generates a visual matrix of color contrast ratios based on your SCSS variables. I share the origin story of the tool, thank the friends who helped refine it, and outline what’s coming next in its development.
I have recently been learning more about design and have gotten some new websites out that I am very proud of. But it is time to stop releasing, reflect on what I have learned and plot out my next several years of learning.
It's been a year since I last redesigned hluska.ca and I have learned a huge amount since. My design skills were terrible - so terrible that I found myself losing interest in my own sites. But the fitness tracker project really convinced me that I need to skill up. And the more skill I gained, the more uncomfortable I got with my existing sites. This was the last one that I redesigned and I am very happy with the results.
If Greg let his old dnd DM mind run too wild with this section, it could turn into an epic tale of two imps and a tracker. The crazy thing is, it has, and the source code for all these apps has a lot of cheeky fairy tale references. For example, technical support is built right into the very core of Fitness Tracker through a co-implementation of documentation, siteimp logging and formimp's tauri SDK. That implementation is called a Magic Bean.
With a mission of making the web faster and more accessible, Siteimp launched in 2022. The web has changed dramatically since 2022 and Siteimp is currently being redeveloped. Greg Hluska Consulting is using the new version both for logging and for performance, accessibility and integration testing within Fitness Tracker.
Together with Formimp, Siteimp makes up the *imp project. *imp is an old idea about making the web faster, more private and much more accessible.
If you know Greg in person, you will understand how sometimes he underestimates how hard something will be and jumps into a product anyways. You will also know that he calls these 'learning experiences'.
Formimp has been a great learning experience. It is currently for clients only but is being redeveloped alongside Siteimp to provide in app technical support for Fitness Tracker.
This is the big one and is more 'life mission' than 'product'. You see, Greg made a lot of bad fitness choices over the course of his life and ended up spending a week in a cardiac ward because of them. That self inflicted heart condition lead to some serious life changes and an application.
Seven years later and this is the application. It is now fully local, built with a privacy in mind and will be back for round two of beta testing in July 2025.