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. Novelist as a Vocation
    Novelist as a Vocation
    Haruki Murakami
  2. The Chronicles of DOOM
  3. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
  4. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

Recent listens

  1. 22, A Million
  2. The More I Sleep the Less I Dream
    We Were Promised Jetpacks
  3. The Howl
    Liam Finn
  4. Small Changes
    Michael Kiwanuka
  5. A Moon Shaped Pool

Recent gigs

  1. Father John Misty
  2. Hamilton Leithauser
  3. Maribou State
    Maribou State
    Alexandra Palace
  4. David Gray
    David Gray
    Rough Trade East
  5. TV On The Radio
    TV On The Radio
    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.
  • 200.43km run so far this year. That’s 0.50% 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.