About me
I'm Ian — A web developer with over 9 years of experience. I care alot about building products that have positive impact. I'm currently based in Sheffield, UK
Me
I'm a 34 year old web developer with a degree in Software engineering. I'm Englipino (English, Filipino)
I've always enjoyed developing for the web ever since developing mods and tweaks for invision forum software in the early 2000s (damn that makes me feel old)
Why did I build this?
I decided to build this small blog from inspiration from a friend/ex manager. Furthermore, I've seen more and more sites using Next JS / React (looking at you John Lewis, Ticketmaster, BBC etc) and want to explore and keep up with new technologies and concepts.
I also miss the days before big social media where people had their own personal portals on the web; Geocities, Freewebs, Piczo, InvisionFree to name a few.
What else
Outside of web development I have a variety of hobbies and interests that keep me busy; I'm a lover of video games, good coffee, travelling, organising things neatly, country walks and spending time with my pets (rats).
Commercial experience with:
- React
- Typescript
- NextJS
- PHP
- WordPress
- Drupal
- MySQL
- GraphQL
- MongoDB
- WAI-ARIA
- Express
- Docker
- CSS
- WCAG
- Sanity.io
- Node