About me

Overview

I'm a JavaScript specialist and (in a former life) LAMP developer. I'm a Vue and CloudFlare evangelist with a ~35K Stack Overflow rep.

I'm currently Head of Engineering at Hello Lamp Post where I built and maintain v2 of their chatbot builder system. I've also worked a lot in e-learning and built a lot of online education and assessment platforms.

Skills

• JavaScript
  • Vanilla JS
  • Vue - Router; Nuxt; Vite; Pinia; Vitest (I'm not a React guy)
  • Node / Bun - Express; Itty; Hona
  • Component libraries - Naive; Buefy; Vuestic; more
  • jQuery (yay for retro)
• DBs/storage
  • SQL - Postgres; MySQL; MariaDB
  • S3/R2
  • D1 (Cloudflare's serverless SQLite)
  • Headless - Contentful; Cosmic DB
• Cloud
  • Cloudflare - Workers; Hyperdrive; AI; Vectorize; R2; D1; Queues; more
  • Azure - containers; app services; serverless functions
  • Heroku
• Misc.
  • AI - GPT; RAG; Mistral; Cloudflare; AI functions; vectorisation; more
  • Docker & Docker Compose (see my in-depth guide)
  • PHP/LAMP - PHP v.8+; frameworks e.g. Code Igniter; Composer; image generation
  • Scrapers/spiders (I seem to have built a lot of these)
  • RegExp sadist
  • Browser extensions (example)
  • Testing - Jest; Vitest; my own end-to-end framework

Writing

I've written tutorials and articles in the past for trade press including .NET Magazine and Smashing Magazine.

These days I blog here and write deep-dive JavaScript guides, such as this one about JavaScript promises.

I've featured a couple of times in JavaScript Daily. I was also technical editor on the (terrible) Smashing jQuery.

Misc.

I have a degree in piano and composition. I post piano videos and dabble with synthesisers.

I'm a passionate vegan and animal lover. Animal lovers are vegan; don't love your dog/cat but condemn other animals to the abuses of the meat industry and, ultimately, death.

I lived for four years in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. I speak Russian. I used to be a tennis coach. I don't like potato.

You can contact me at [email protected].