Adam Duncan

Software Engineer
London, UK

Hey

I’m a front-end engineer with 17 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. Animal Farm
    Animal Farm
    George Orwell
  2. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
  3. The Difficult Ghost: Searching for Truman Capote
  4. Power Failure
    Power Failure
    William D. Cohan

Recent listens

  1. Dark Matter
    Pearl Jam
  2. I Can See
    Nick Hakim
  3. Warning
    Green Day
  4. Drown In Colour
    Red Riders
  5. Morning View XXIII

Recent gigs

  1. Slow Pilot Plays Jeff Buckley
    Slow Pilot Plays Jeff Buckley
    Shepherd's Bush Empire
  2. Ray Bull
    Ray Bull
    26 Leake Street
  3. Kevin Morby
  4. A Perfect Circle
    A Perfect Circle
    Brixton Academy
  5. C.W. Stoneking
    C.W. Stoneking
    Islington Assembly Hall

Newsroll

  1. Adam Silver
  2. Bytes
  3. Design Systems Weekly
  4. Farnam Street
  5. Frontend Focus
  6. funfun.email
  7. Harry’s Newsletter
  8. Human Who Codes
  9. It’s Nice That
  10. Josh W. Comeau
  11. Julian Shapiro
  12. Kent C. Dodds
  13. Matthias Ott
  14. Remix
  15. Robin Rendle
  16. Robin Sloan
  17. Syntax.fm
  18. The Imperfectionist
  19. The Index
  20. The Overflow
  21. 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.
  • 443.70km run so far this year. That’s 1.11% around the world.
  • Starred 577 projects on GitHub. Just think of the node_modules.
  • Estimated stay in London: 2 years. Actual: 16 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 Qobuz, Hardcover, Instapaper, GitHub, Strava, and Website Carbon Calculator. It ain’t pretty, but the source code for this site is available on GitHub.