Currently: I'm a frontend dev and product maker working for myself and freelance clients from my office in London.
Previously I could be found: flying around the globe in 80 days, working 7 years at Foursquare, including managing their apps teams, and scraping together a classic New York life as an actor/bartender.
Freelance product engineer - I make pretty pixels and smooth app experiences. I've been both a manager and a bartender. Always exploring.
Aug 17, 2021 · 9 min read · As you're poking around with modern Javascript, it won't take you long to encounter one of the main asynchronous keywords: Promise, await, or async. So, how do these they work, and why would you want to use them? (And then at the end, some pro-tips f...
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Jul 26, 2021 · 6 min read · Edit: Sadly, after enjoying learning and contributing to Redwood, I learned about the Not Great circumstances around the framework's author's departure from Github. Because of that, I've stepped away from the framework. There are many snarky truisms ...
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Jul 19, 2021 · 4 min read · Recently, I've run into a few big ideas that make me feel like it's 2010 all over again. In the worst way. They remind me that back in the heady days of 2010, we were fools for apps. Need to know what song is playing on the radio right now? App! Are ...
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Jun 14, 2021 · 3 min read · With much fanfare and celebration Tweet Sweep launched! Well, fanfare and celebration by me, at least. Three months of work, about $100 of spend on things like domain names and web hosting, and what happened? Nothing. Two weeks after I put it live, f...
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Jun 10, 2021 · 5 min read · Quick how-to for you today. I'm setting up a new web app project with these parameters: I want it to be based on Next.JS because it's my favorite React framework. I want to style it with Bootstrap 5 because I need more help setting up a consistent t...
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