Hi there 👋

I am J. Kirchartz, a senior web developer with 20 years of experience. I build, repair, and extend web sites & make interactive multimedia with elegant code.

Front end and design

• Semantic HTML, CSS, Sass, PostCSS, and JavaScript
• React
• Accessibility and web standards
• B.S. in Interactive Multimedia Design Legacy systems
• I worked on a large, old Perl application for five years.
• I wrote middleware, added new features, and fixed bugs.
• I replaced jQuery with ES2015+ JavaScript in the front end. Back end and servers
• Node.js, Python, PHP, and Bash
• SQL (Postgres, MariaDB, MySQL) and MongoDB
• Ansible, Vagrant, and Git
• Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Arch) WordPress
• WordPress with the Roots stack (Bedrock and Sage)
• ACF, WooCommerce Also
• Technical writing and documentation
• A/B testing
• Teacher and peer tutor
• Hardware repair and soldering

Open to: freelance and consulting work, and team roles with excellent communication skills.

• Personal site · Email

Fun Facts about Me, A to Z

• Analog Arbitator of Anticipated Anarchy,
• Baccalaureate Beautifier of Bountiful Bugs in Beta,
• Courageous Conjurer of Clear Communications,
• Dastardly Dare-Devil Devouring Delightful Digital Delicacies,
• Eponymous Elevator of Enlightenment, evoking a
• Frightless Finesse for Fickle Finagling,
• Grateful Guarantor of Gargantuan Geekery,
• Hacker Handyman for Hire,
• Intermittent Idiotic Idea Imitator, always a
• Justified Jester jelling Jamborees with Judicious Judgement
• Knight of the Keyboard,
• Loquacious Lecturer at the Lemma of Life-Long Learning,
• Mindful Maker of Majestic Madness
• Nice Nature-loving Neighbor Navigating Nebulous Networks
• Ordinary Ossifier of Occult Options
• Prescient Punk at the Precipice of Paradise
• Quizzical Querent of Quirky Quandaries with a Queue of Quagmires
• Real Reliable Resource for Responsive and Respectful Rapport and Repartee
• Stunningly Successful at Simplifying the Sesquipedalianism
• Tenacious tinkerer testing tempting technologies
• urgently understanding unusual urges,
• voiding volatile waranties as a
• wonderfully weird Word-nerd wontonly winning with Wit and Wisdom
• with a xenophilic excitement and
• yearning for yesterday's
• zealous zeniths.