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Web Development

PageSpeed Insights (Google) Results

PageSpeed Insights Results

Experience

LinkedIn Verified Skills

LinkedIn Verified Skills

  • Over 12 years of experience in web development
  • Created the Whiskey Flat Days App
  • Front-End developer for FireVision, which won 1st place in 59 Days of Code
  • Knowledge in multiple languages & frameworks & libraries & platforms
    • HTML, JavaScript, CSS
    • PHP, MySQL, Apache, node
    • Wordpress, Magento, React, Angular, Jekyll, 11ty
    • Linux, git, bash, etc.
    • Leaflet, jQuery
    • JSON, YAML, XML, XLST, Markdown
    • Many more
  • Knows strengths and weaknesses of e.g. Wix, Wordpress, jQuery, React, 11ty, Jekyll, plain HTML
  • Use the tools that meet the needs of the job instead of trying to force a project to fit in with my preferred methods
  • Over 200 projects worked on, including:

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

  • Use structured data to follow guidelines designed by a committee of search engines to instruct search engines how to understand content - "This is an article written by this author in this genre"
  • Follow Google's advice - "Create great content and a great experience for your users"
  • Where applicable, markup meets the requirements for Google's "Rich Results" cards
  • Understand how performance, responsiveness, accessibility, etc. affects search engine ranking of pages

Compatibility

  • Built and maintain a whole library that makes all modern browsers have all necessary functionality even if they do not natively provide it
  • Use "Progressive Enhancement" and feature detection to provide an improved experience to better browsers without breaking the site/app for other users
  • Even in cases where a browser fails to load/an error does occur, the content of the site is still available
  • Extensive knowledge of which of the many browsers with different versions on different Operating Systems support a give set of features, plus checking for browser support when needed

Performance

  • The less work a browser has to do to load a page and the less it has to fetch, the faster it'll be
  • By default, static site generators are used, so there is zero time spent in a server creating a page on each request - the page is created ahead of time, cached, and reused until changed
  • Where live data is needed, it isn't fetched until needed, so images and components do not have to all load once the user visists a page
  • In-depth knowledge of how browsers work and what a page needs allows for things like pre-fetching data ahead of time, responsive images, lazy loading, non-blocking scripting, hardware accelerated animations, etc.

Security

Mozilla Observatory Results

Observatory Results

  • Unauthorized scripts and assets cannot be loaded - Content-Security-Policy
  • Scripts are limited in what they can do without an allowed Trusted Type Policy
  • No back-end or database to attack - complete immunity to many common attacks
  • Runs through GitHub - all code must be cryptographically signed and users must have 2FA, and only authorized users can make any changes
  • Code must pass manual and automated security audits/reviews in order to make it into the production site
  • Automated updates (has to pass tests and requires approval of changes)
  • Code is written on a laptop with full-disk encryption and a very strong password, and all changes are cryptographically signed

Accessibility

  • Follow WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)
  • Implement & use Accessibility Object Model (AOM) as needed
  • Sites actually tested with a screen reader, not just synthetic tests
  • Through use of a screen reader, pain points are discovered and dealt with (e.g. adding a hidden "skip to content" link available through screen readers & keyboard navigation)

Web Apps

  • Where beneficial and wanted, these sites may be upgraded to a "Progressive Web App" (PWA), a cross-platform and web based type of app that can integrate with the Operating System like a native app does
  • Native apps - PWAs may be packaged as native apps for Android, Windows, & iOS without having a separate codebase to write and maintain
  • Even without installing, sites may use app-like features such as using native share dialogs, theming including scrollbars and the status bar, requesting location, etc
  • Dark/light themes supported based on user preference