About me
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I've always liked computers. Whether it was fussing over exactly which WinAmp skin to pair with my desktop background or managing BBForums for my RuneScape clan while hanging out in the #runescape IRC channel for tip.it, I was "extremely online" even as an adolescent.
I've written a lot of weirdly specific applications over the years:
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Testing cable effectiveness when plugged into an oscilloscope.
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Creating thermal printer libraries in Tcl.
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Photobooth applications for hardware that was mounted to a shopping cart, for capturing nutrition labels on food.
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A mesh network for peer-to-peer communication between containers on cargo ships.
These days, I'm a bit more focused on web development. I'm a Staff Engineer and Tech Lead at Stripe working on Connect. Outside of work, I like to write about Home Automation and obsess a bit over Apple products.
When I'm not building things, I like cooking, watching TV, and spending time with my wife and cat. I also listen to a lot of podcasts.
You can find all of my half-finished projects on GitHub. I'm also on Mastodon, Instagram, and LinkedIn. If you just want to reach me directly, you can send an email to drew@unremarkable.dev.
This Site
This site is built using Eleventy, a static site generator. You can find the source on GitHub.
The inspiration for the theme, sitemap, and format of this site came from a bunch of different people with their own personal websites:
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localghost.dev's "minimal" theme hit really close to the format I wanted to use on my own site. (Though I hope it doesn't feel too ripped from that.)
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Robb Knight's personal site gave me a lot of inspiration on using APIs to generate content for some of the pages that I wanted to build.
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I liked the layout for posts and reading time that I found on codevoid's site.
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Code snippets in posts use Sarah Drasner's Night Owl light theme, which was made by forking the PrismJS version.
And so many more people that I'm probably forgetting.