Curriculum Vitae

About Me

I grew up in Manhattan in the 90’s in Yorkville. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 2001 I moved back to Brooklyn a few months before 9/11.
I began work as an Illustrator and inadvertently taught myself to build websites.

Back then front end was simple. The first program I used was a WYSIWYG called Trellis Web. It came with AOL or something.
I graduated to DreamWeaver → HTML → PHP → WordPress.

For the last 20 years I’ve designed websites and created WordPress custom themes.
During the pandemic I started working with Shopify.
In the last few years I’ve been discovering the new JavaScript based front end paradigm with Vue and now Astro.

I love building websites 💖
I love symbolic thinking and the zen of coding.

Colophon

This site was created with Astro JS 4
Most of the transitions are using the new View Transitions API which allows content to be animated from one page to the next.

I enjoyed using the component based architecture (though the stylus CSS preprocessor is breaking some of the scoped CSS).
I’ve loved the file-based routing and content written in MarkDown.
Astro is doing the boring stuff so we can focus on the content.

The site is deployed on Vercel,
is versioned controlled on Github,
uses Tippy library for Tooltips,
uses Lato font,
uses Tailwind and Stylus CSS preprocessors,
and Vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript for everything else.