Portfolio

An up-to-date collection of my dev highlights.

Coding

Projects

You're Doing A Good Job

A browser new tab page that displays a nice image, and inspirational messages configurable as markdown. A 2 Rad Dads collaboration.

Crank Champ

A silly game for the Playdate that...we still aren't really sure what it's going to do. Another 2 Rad Dads collaboration.

PRs

Pull requests I've written

There's no preview of what it's like to work with someone than their pull requests. These PRs demonstrate my approach to communication and collaboration, and my skills as a developer.

• [Describing a problem and solution in depth, including visuals, and taking constructive feedback to make the work better](- https://github.com/camunda/camunda-platform-docs/pull/2577)
• Starting from scratch, solving problems, and sharing what I learned along the way.
• Solving a tricky UI problem.
• My first significant iOS/React Native PR.
  • Demonstrates refactoring and React component composition.
• My first significant React Native PR that touched Objective-C.
  • A follow-up based on feedback from a previous PR.
  • Demonstrates knowledge sharing within a PR.
• A PR focused on back-end work.
  • Demonstrates my ability to add helpful context to PRs

Pull requests I've reviewed

• Mentoring a new developer.
• Providing constructive feedback.

Writing

Technical articles

• Automating Pull Requests With Sed And The GitHub CLI
• Working With Variables In Cypress Tests
• Server-Rendering Responsively

Non-technical articles

• Maximizing Productivity During Small Blocks Of Time (a series)
• Team Working Agreements

Somewhere in between technical and non-technical articles

• Breaking Problems Down: A Case Study
• Strategies For Small, Focused Pull Requests
• Improve Pull Requests By Including Valuable Context

Talking

A Developer Experience Podcast

Interviews and soliloquies about the experience of being a developer, especially focused on personal productivity.

• Michael Weinand: The pressures of reliability
• Identity isn't permanent

Artsy Engineering Radio

Interviews with Artsy engineers about their career experiences.

• Humanizing The Workplace
• Software Engineering And Creative Practice
• Scaling Your Impact pt. 2, this time with Orta
• Effective Tech Leadership...question mark?

Videos

• Demoing a boring feature by telling a story

2 Rad Dads

A stream featuring two midwest dads who like each other and like to write code together.

• You're Doing A Good Job! But I'm sick of seeing the same image every time.
• Let's Get Cranking! How do we even build a Playdate app?

Teaching

• Hands-on tutorials for learning Relay (in-progress).
• A full-day React workshop for beginners.