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. The Great Mental Models, Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
  2. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
  3. Kafka on the Shore
    Kafka on the Shore
    Haruki Murakami
  4. How to Make the World Add Up Ten Rules for Thinking Differently about Numbers

Recent listens

  1. VOLUMES: ONE
    Bon Iver
  2. Sing The Sorrow
  3. 2
    Foxwarren
  4. In Times New Roman...
    Queens of the Stone Age
  5. War To Love
    Matt Corby

Recent gigs

    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.
    • 245.17km run so far this year. That’s 0.61% around the world.
    • Starred 548 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 Spotify, Hardcover, Instapaper, GitHub, Strava, and Website Carbon Calculator. It ain’t pretty, but the source code for this site is available on GitHub.