jshakespeare.com

About

I have over ten years of experience building websites at in-house, agency and freelance roles. I spend most of my time writing code using languages like JavaScript, but I'm often involved in shaping the design and user experience of the things I build too. I currently work on the product engineering team at Quartz, where I write code and manage other developers.

Projects

I do my best to keep this site updated with a list of things I’ve made, both for other people and for myself. Recent work that I’m proud of includes the 2018 rebuild of qz.com in React, a one-off editorial feature for Quartz called The World in 50 Years and a site that renders a pictogram of tonight’s moon phase using CSS.

Recent posts

• How did JavaScript’s console.log get its name?

  7 December 2020

• Use git hooks and husky to tell your teammates when to run npm install

  2 August 2020

• A simple count-up animation with JavaScript

  5 April 2020

• Don’t mislabel mailto links

  22 February 2020

• The Meg Ryan effect

  4 February 2020

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