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. The Great Mental Models, Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
  2. Less is More
    Less is More
    Jason Hickel
  3. Why I Write
    Why I Write
    George Orwell
  4. The Goldfinch
    The Goldfinch
    Donna Tartt

Recent listens

  1. Ultrasound
  2. Wing
    Big Scary
  3. Drown In Colour
    Red Riders
  4. out of interest
    We Were Promised Jetpacks
  5. Odyssey Number Five

Recent gigs

  1. David Gray
    David Gray
    Rough Trade East
  2. TV On The Radio
    TV On The Radio
    Islington Assembly Hall
  3. Vampire Weekend
    Vampire Weekend
    Brixton Academy
  4. Cola
    Cola
    The Dome
  5. Three Trapped Tigers
    Three Trapped Tigers
    Electric Ballroom

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.
  • Starred 539 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, and Website Carbon Calculator. It ain’t pretty, but the source code for this site is available on GitHub.