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SongSuey
Who really writes the music? Track-level songwriting credits for 425+ 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 production using an AI-native workflow. 20 years of frontend work 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 with real users, each one a solo build from design through launch.
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Who really writes the music? Track-level songwriting credits for 425+ 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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Type once and see your text drawn in all 1,942 Google Fonts, embed code one click away.
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A personal dashboard you arrange yourself: 38 live widgets on a drag-and-drop board that follows you between computers.
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A print-style halftone image converter with CMYK channels and 10 dot shapes. Everything runs in your browser; nothing 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 from Figma and built to stay maintainable.
Figma-to-production design systems. I led one that covers 150+ commercial sites.
GSAP, ScrollTrigger, canvas. I wrote a Packt book on jQuery animation.
Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse, and WCAG 2. I measure the numbers before the work starts and again when it ships.
06Blog
Notes and guides on frontend development
The speed studies that survive scrutiny (Deloitte's 0.1s lift, Vodafone's LCP test, redBus's INP win), the bounce curve, and how to buy performance work that pays for itself.
The metrics that matter and the fixes that move them, plus the ones that waste a sprint.
A working map of the Chicago market: who hires, where the hubs sit, what it pays, and why remote from the suburbs is the quiet win.
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.
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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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