Adam Duncan

Software Engineer
London, UK

Hey

I’m a front-end engineer 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. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
  2. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
  3. The Great Mental Models, Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
  4. Less is More
    Less is More
    Jason Hickel

Recent listens

  1. RARE
    Hundredth
  2. I Slept On The Floor
  3. Blue Garden
    Delta Sleep
  4. Rarely Do I Dream
    Youth Lagoon
  5. Stare At The Void

Recent gigs

  1. Hamilton Leithauser
  2. Maribou State
    Maribou State
    Alexandra Palace
  3. David Gray
    David Gray
    Rough Trade East
  4. TV On The Radio
    TV On The Radio
    Islington Assembly Hall
  5. Vampire Weekend
    Vampire Weekend
    Brixton Academy

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 76% of all web pages globally.
  • 138.71km run so far this year. That’s 0.35% around the world.
  • Starred 548 projects on GitHub. Just think of the node_modules.
  • Estimated stay in London: 2 years. Actual: 15 years and counting (sorry, Mum).
  • Longest word on Spelling Bee: Inconvenience.

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. It ain’t pretty, but the source code for this site is available on GitHub.