Hi, I'm Dan. I like to make stuff. I especially like to make progressive and responsive web applications using current technologies with a focus on user experience, design, and accessibility.
In previous endeavors I've been a financial advisor, a Realtor, a real estate investor, a youth soccer coach, a legislative staffer, a candidate for public office, a scuba diver, a bass player in a very amateur Metallica cover band, and a baby.
For the complete paper version of me, check out my résumé.
A full stack project allowing for secure and authenticated (Bcrypt, Passport) user accounts for the creation of public user profiles and property listings with a custom admin dashboard and image uploads handled by FileStack. A Nodes.js and Express back end works with a Postgres database and Backbone.js for modeling and collections. A React front end is styled with Sass, including a custom grid system. This app was built with mobile-first, responsive design in mind, and uses a Gulp framework to compile it all.
I made this for practical, self-serving purposes as a legislative staffer at the Texas Capitol. A JavaScript-heavy site that provides for a real-time countdown clock for both the beginning and end of Texas legislative sessions, helped by the date-fns library. It also includes a custom calendar showing all legislative dates and related holidays (with a few extra things thrown in). The design uses Sass and some heavy doses of Flexbox and CSS Grid. It's all put together with a homemade Gulp framework.
I hated having all my family and favorite recipes stores as PDFs uploaded to my Google Drive. I always had to manually zoom in when looking them up on my phone. This front end project, built with React and Sass on a custom Webpack framework, allows me to have easy access to my recipes wherever I am. Uses React Router to navigate and includes functionality to search recipes by filtering for courses.
HTML
CSS
Sass
JavaScript
React
GraphQL
jQuery
Node.js
Express
Handlebars
Pug
MongoDB
Webpack
Gulp
Gatsby
Cloudinary
Git
GitHub
npm
VS Code
ESLint
Stylelint
Prettier
Emmet
Photoshop