Adam Duncan

Software Engineer
London, UK

Hey

I’m a front-end developer with 16 years’ experience, keen to work on a wide range of projects, and deepen my understanding of modern web technologies. I’m passionate about design and technology, and excited to be part of an industry that’s constantly evolving.

Now

Senior Software Engineer at Shopify

Previously

Education

BA, Multimedia Design
Curtin University of Technology
Perth, Australia
2006 – 2008

Pet projects

  • JamRoll — A new daily game for music buffs.
  • @FrontEndReads — Links on front-end development and design.
  • eleventy-plugin-i18n (2020) — Eleventy internationalization and dictionary translations.
  • Frend.co (2016) — A collection of accessible, modern front-end components.

“Social”

Recent reads

  1. Why I Write
    Why I Write
    George Orwell
  2. The Goldfinch
    The Goldfinch
    Donna Tartt
  3. The Lessons of History
  4. A Philosophy of Software Design

Recent listens

  1. Enjoy the View
    We Were Promised Jetpacks
  2. Deja Entendu
    Brand New
  3. AMOK
    Atoms For Peace
  4. Sour Soul
    BADBADNOTGOOD
  5. Filoxiny
    Skinshape

Recent gigs

  1. Russian Circles
  2. MONO
    MONO
    Hackney Church
  3. Adult Jazz
  4. Real Estate
    Real Estate
    Hackney Church
  5. Jungle
    Jungle
    The O2

Newsroll

  1. Adam Silver
  2. Bytes
  3. Design Systems Weekly
  4. Frontend Focus
  5. funfun.email
  6. Human Who Codes
  7. It’s Nice That
  8. Josh W. Comeau
  9. Julian Shapiro
  10. Kent C. Dodds
  11. Matthias Ott
  12. Remix
  13. Robin Rendle
  14. Robin Sloan
  15. Syntax.fm
  16. The Index
  17. The Overflow
  18. Total TypeScript

A non-exhaustive list of the newsletters that keep me going. Thanks all.

Stats

  • This page achieves a carbon rating of B, cleaner than 80% of all web pages globally.
  • 625.65km run so far this year. That’s 1.56% around the world.
  • Starred 515 projects on GitHub. Just think of the node_modules.
  • Estimated stay in London: 2 years. Actual: 14 years and counting (sorry, Mum).
  • Longest word on Spelling Bee: Annihilation.

Colophon

Text is set in National 2, from the choice Klim Type Foundry. This site is built with One and automatically deployed to Netlify. Life data pulled in from Spotify, Hardcover, Instapaper, GitHub, Strava, and Website Carbon Calculator.