Frontend tools

React will always have a special place in my heart because it was my gateway into the frontend world (and it’s still paying the bills, lol). It rightfully brought me out of a world where I was building web applications in Java, and today I happily put up with all the chaos that is the modern frontend. These are my favorite technologies right now:

• Solid
• React
• Tailwindcss
• Plain ol’ HTML and CSS

Fullstack, serverless & more

I definitely got thrown in the deep end with these ideas and technologies, but it’s really shaped my understand of fullstack web applications and serverless technologies. Even though I started with Next.js (straight from create-react-app without a clue in the world of what’s even possible), it wasn’t until Deno’s Fresh and Astro that things really started clicking. This is pretty much the order in which I made that journey:

• Astro
• Deno Deploy
• SolidStart
• Vercel
• AWS CDK
• Next.js

Programming languages

I’m quite a programming language geek! I may not be great at many of them, but I absolutely adore them. These are my top favorites:

• TypeScript
• Rust
• Kotlin
• Java
• C++

Podcasts & YouTube Channels

I consume this content virtually every single day:

• JavaScript Jabber
• Syntax FM
• Ryan Carniato’s streams and VODs
• CoRecursive Podcast
• Kevin Powell’s YouTube channel