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SongSuey
Who really writes the music? Track-level songwriting credits for 100+ artists.
- Eleventy
- Node.js
- Playwright
Buffalo Grove, IL · 42.15°N, 87.96°W
Field survey · Est. 2006 · Chicagoland
I take interfaces from Figma to shipped: fast, accessible, animated, and built AI-natively. 20 years of shipping for startups, agencies, and Fortune 500s. Available for freelance and contract work across Chicagoland and remote everywhere.
02Field index
Selected frontend projects and open-source work
Side projects people actually use. Each one designed, built, and shipped end to end.
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Who really writes the music? Track-level songwriting credits for 100+ artists.
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Interactive UI patterns built with pure CSS. No JavaScript allowed.
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Glitch-art image editor with RGB shift, scanlines, and animated GIF export.
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Contour-line art from procedural noise or your photos. Exports PNG, SVG, and GIF.
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Printable calendars that actually fill the page: monthly through year-at-a-glance, no logo on your paper.
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Palettes from 2 to 24 colors with every tint and shade, exported as CSS, Tailwind, tokens, or SVG.
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A personal dashboard engineered like a product: live data, drag-and-drop layout, a real database underneath.
Case study In active development
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A print-style halftone image converter: CMYK channels, a dozen dot shapes, zero uploads.
03Field reports
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recommendations on LinkedIn
Every one of them drifts behind this card, quoted exactly as written.
05Capabilities
Frontend development, design systems, and web animation
React, TypeScript, Eleventy (SSG), or hand-rolled JAMstack: pixel-perfect, fast, and maintainable.
Figma-to-production design systems. I led one that covers 150+ commercial sites.
GSAP, ScrollTrigger, canvas. I literally wrote the book on web animation.
Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse, WCAG 2. Measured, not guessed.
06Blog
Notes and guides on frontend development
BLS medians, pay by level, the coastal rent math, and what actually moves an offer, from the person deciding what to put on the table.
The loop I run at my day job, the four questions that predict anything, why the whiteboard is gone, and the red flags on both sides of the table.
What JAMstack and Eleventy mean in practice, when static wins, and when it's the wrong tool.
The five-layer technical SEO checklist I run against every build: crawl, render, speed, semantics, and structured data, plus the tool that proves each fix.
I have been the agency developer, the in-house lead, and the freelancer since 1999, and this is who to hire for what, with the cost math kept honest.
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Taking on freelance frontend development and UI design projects in Chicago and beyond. Tell me what you're making.
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