T.J. Fogarty
Performance-focused Developer.
A Well-Made Website Pays for Itself.
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Performance is key. I optimise for common metrics in Google PageSpeed and up to date best practices that make websites SEO ready and accessible.
I specialise in the front-end; writing CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Think Sass, Vue, and React. I like to keep code clean and reusable.
I've spent many, many years building large scale products and websites with WordPress, ExpressionEngine, Craft CMS, and Laravel.
I like to focus on building processes that power development. That could be creating a custom webpack configuration, setting up and maintaining a pattern library, implementing a deployment process, or introducing code reviews.
Latest Posts
Web Cloaks
A few observations on techniques that are used to disguise a problem with a website.
Clever Logos
A collection of clever logos. Great for getting the brain going when you're looking for inspiration.
Derived Stores With Svelte
Getting up to speed with derived stores in Svelte and how they compare to something like computed properties in Vue.
Featured Projects
CSS-Tricks Article - Timber WordPress Plugin
Working with the delighful Chris Coyier I wrote an article for CSS-Tricks on Timber, a WordPress plugin that completely changes theme development.
Skillshare: Create an RSS Feed Reader
I did a class on Skillshare for creating an RSS feed reader with Vue.js, and Node with Netlify to make use of their functions to deploy to AWS Lambda.
Personal Site
This is my old personal site built on Craft CMS. It's no longer maintained as I've moved to a static site which I'm planning to make freely available when I've worked everything out with it.