I am a fullstack software developer based in California with over 10 years of experience building performant experiences for the web. Currently I’m employed as a Senior Software Engineer at This Dot.
I am experienced in the backend having maintained APIs and microservices written with Node.js, PHP, and Python; but also the frontend as well with React, Next.js and Angular. I create performant and resilient experiences that users can count on. I’ve had the opportunity to work on websites and services from marketing campaign landing pages to online ordering systems.
If you want to see some of what I’ve done, then feel free to check out my work experience, open source contributions, or recent posts.
In my free time I am a D&D and RPG nerd that is seemingly incapable of playing anything that doesn’t have pointy ears. In-particular I’m currently a very active World of Warcraft player raiding with my guild every week killing bosses and getting loot.
I’ve written quite a lot over the years! Most of them have been written for This Dot. Check out my full list of tags if you want to read about a specific subject.
January 2, 2026
Although I've been using GNU/Linux for almost 15 years at this point, starting with Ubuntu 11.10 back in 2011 and later Fedora, I've still used Windows for the majority of my gaming. I've decided to give Linux another try due to problems I've experienced with Windows. This is my experience switching to Linux in 2025.
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February 25, 2025
Vercel previews offer a great way to test PRs for a project. They have a predefined environment and don’t require any additional setup work from the reviewer to test changes quickly. Many projects also use end-to-end tests with Playwright as part of the review process to ensure that no regressions slip uncaught.
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February 4, 2025
Laravel is a mature, robust, and powerful web framework that makes developing PHP applications a breeze. In particular, I want to demonstrate how to create a website that can be used to convert videos online using queue jobs for processing and temporary URLs for downloading the converted files.
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January 4, 2025
Astro supports redirects out of the box when using an adapter, but only redirects to pages on the same site that Astro knows to exist. Although the Cloudflare adapter does support external redirects, supporting them is considered a "non-goal" according to the Astro roadmap. There does seem to be interest in adding external redirects to the Vercel adapter as well, but as of now this doesn't work.
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December 29, 2024
Back in February of 2016 I created this website using Hugo. I chose Hugo primarily because of its fast builds, but also because it was easy to use and author content with as it supported markdown. However, I've recently switched my website over to Astro and I'm going to talk about my experience with it and why I made the switch.
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October 25, 2024
Dialogs are a common component added to applications, whether on the web or in native applications. Traditionally there has not been a standard way of implementing these on the web, resulting in many ad-hoc implementations that don’t act consistently across different web applications. Often, commonly expected features are missing from dialogs due to the complexity of implementing them.
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