BHMT

Here's a little about me...

I'm a trained musician, turned one-man help desk, turned self-taught Web developer. I've been tinkering with gadgets in front of me to varying degrees for longer than I'll admit in public, and accidentally parlayed this into a profession shortly out of college, falling into IT support for a restaurant chain. After eventually getting burnt out on tech support, I slowly found myself moving toward just building fixes for things myself instead of strictly working around them, as I'd been doing on various SaaS platforms I worked with then. The bulk of my process for picking up new tools has generally been an ad-hoc, learn-as-you-go sort that's benefitted most from building things that someone (someone often being me haha) specifically wanted to use — tools to automate personal processes like data processing, fixes for people's pet annoyances, DIY projects for entertainment, and so on.

When I'm not writing code, I'm typically working out, chipping away at a Metroidvania, shouting from the Internet rooftops about the need for better standards, or toying with an experiment or five. Some previous endeavors have included wiring and automating my own RGB lighting, fixing up a DDR pad just so that I could avoid going running (this one got me to successfully solder something for the first time), and various CTF puzzles. (...ok, a few of those still involved writing code 😅)

Here are some projects I've built...

escapeHatch: A skeletal, highly WIP set of tools for simplifying your job search. "Swipe" through prospective jobs and track their lifecycles from application to hire.
- Currently just an API, being built in parallel with seeder scripts I've been building for personal use. (Also includes sample scrapers and a detailed guide to writing your own, and aims to eventually include bulk upload from custom sources.)
- Built with Deno, Astral, and kvdex, with upstream contributions to the latter
Calc: A simple calcluator, visually inspired by the built-in calculator in Windows 10. Built using vanilla JavaScript.
T3: A simple tic tac toe game. Built using vanilla JavaScript.
Negotiable: A bar chart for comparing boilerplate salaries. Built using Vue and plain SVG.
WildRose: A wordlist generator originally built for a data recovery job — helping a friend recover a lost password, to crack open an old encrypted volume and extract its contents. Built using Deno.
- (I obviously can't get into more detail than that, but I'm specifying as much as I am here really just to clarify that there was at least some vetting involved in this haha)
Step Step Recollection: A workout tracker for DDR that I built mostly to log my own gameplay sessions
- Defunct for now, since I no longer live in a place where I can play DDR on a whim (and since, for that same reason, I never got to finding a replacement host for Heroku), but I'm still actively hunting for somewhere amenable to that/an excuse to pick this back up
- Built using Mongo/Express/React/Node (application), Deno (seeding tool/Stepmania chart parser)

Here are some technologies I've worked with

A non-exhaustive list, loosely sorted by category:

React, (+ React Router, Redux), Vue, jQuery
Material UI, Ant Design, Bootstrap, Tailwind, Bulma
Node.js, Deno*, Ruby
Vite, Lume*
Express, Rails
MongoDB

* used on this site

Did I mention I also freelance?

Need a website built? Got a boring, repetitive task you want to automate? Maybe an esoteric data recovery need? Drop me a note and tell me about your project.

But don't take my word for it...

"Sean developed a solution to a unique data recovery problem requiring the sequential use of multiple tools, including custom-written ones. The data recovered was of immense personal value, and I greatly appreciate his skills and perseverance in coming up with an effective solution."

— the data recovery client I built WildRose for

Last, but not least...

Check out my blog! I've been slowly collecting technical writeups and other such musings.