About me

If you think hard enough, sometimes the work is easier.

Work

Payments
My primary work for the past six years has been building UIs and APIs for payments.
See my full resume on Linkedin.

Thoughts

UI programming models
I believe it is still possible to improve how we work together to build UIs.
Web UI engineering
Diagram visualizing the Preact lifecycle Preact in Pictures is a talk that explains the core virtual dom diffing algorithm. The Preact Internals series discusses helpers, the component model, and DOM diffing.
Types: I spent much of 2017 thinking about how types can help UI programming. I wrote up some now-old advice on ADTs and exhaustiveness.
Slide with stylized network waterfall discussing site performance best practices The new fast was a talk on web performance techniques that were fairly new in 2017 thanks to new browser standards.
React/Om: I was an early adopter and (slight) contributor to React and Om, a ClojureScript wrapper for it. See my 2014 talk on React + Om (a ClojureScript wrapper for React) and a 2014 experience report on working with Om.

Projects

Open-source and volunteering
Screenshot of Reading Japanese Literature blog page Read Japanese Literature is a podcast and blog run by my partner, Alison. I help with the website and sound design.
Pyret is an in-browser programming language and environment for use in the Bootstrap curriciulum. In 2020 and ’21, I updated their IDE to be shinier, faster, and easier to use.
Federated Wiki is a new, personal version of the wiki being developed by Ward Cunningham. In 2011, I collaborated with him to design and build the core UI paradigm that still powers it today.