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What each client needed, what made it hard, what I built and what changed after. Every one of these is still in production.

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  • The Estuary Line site on a laptop screen, a departure board with the next three sailings and a large Book a ticket button over a photo of a ferry on a wide river.

    01Web appEstuary Line · 2026

    Estuary Line booking

    Tickets, timetables and live departures for a river ferry that carries 9,000 people a day. Booking went from a phone call to forty seconds on a phone.

    Tickets bought online0%61%

    • Astro
    • TypeScript
    • PostgreSQL
    • Stripe
    • Cloudflare Workers
  • The Ostra Farm shop on a laptop on a wooden table, a large photo of oysters on ice and a box with a Friday delivery date.

    02WebsiteOstra Farm · 2025

    Ostra Farm shop

    An oyster farm's site and shop that sells out every Friday. Built to load on a fisherman's phone and to be edited by the people who farm.

    Boxes sold online a week0180

    • Astro
    • Stripe
    • Supabase
    • Resend
  • A research dashboard on a laptop in a field station, with charts of soil moisture and a map of sample sites.

    03PerformanceFieldnote · 2024

    Fieldnote dashboard, four times faster

    A research dashboard that took four seconds to show anything. Two weeks later it showed the first chart in under one, without a rewrite.

    First chart4.1 s0.9 s

    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Vite
    • Vitest
  • A dark code editor on a laptop showing a short TypeScript example that adds a job to a queue, beside a terminal with green test results.

    04Open sourceOpen source · 2024

    tinyqueue

    A job queue for edge functions that fits in 4 kB, with retries, delays and no server to run. 2,400 stars and used in production by teams I've never met.

    Size, minified and gzipped4 kB

    • TypeScript
    • PostgreSQL
    • Deno
    • GitHub Actions

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