https://adamculpepper.net/ 2026-09-01T00:00:00Z Adam Culpepper https://adamculpepper.net/blog/gsap-hero-animation 2026-07-22T00:00:00Z

A walkthrough of this site's contour-field hero: procedural SVG topo lines, DrawSVG staggers, ScrollTrigger parallax, and a real reduced-motion fallback.

https://adamculpepper.net/blog/website-cost-chicago 2026-07-25T00:00:00Z

How much does a website cost? A Chicago developer who has scoped projects for 20 years shares real ranges by type, what moves the number, and how to buy well.

https://adamculpepper.net/blog/hiring-chicago-frontend-developer 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z

What to know before hiring a freelance frontend developer in Chicago: how pricing works, the red flags that predict a bad project, and the questions to ask.

https://adamculpepper.net/blog/freelance-developer-vs-agency 2026-08-03T00:00:00Z

Freelance developer vs agency vs an internal team: I have worked all three ways since 1999, and this is who to hire for what, with the honest cost math.

https://adamculpepper.net/blog/technical-seo-checklist 2026-08-06T00:00:00Z

A technical SEO checklist from a developer who owns SEO at scale: crawlability, rendering, canonical tags, structured data, and the tools that prove each fix.

https://adamculpepper.net/blog/static-sites-eleventy 2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

What JAMstack and Eleventy actually mean, when a static site beats a database-backed one, and when static is the wrong tool, from a developer who ships both.

https://adamculpepper.net/blog/interviewing-frontend-developers 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The frontend developer interview questions I ask after years of running a hiring pipeline: the loop, why each question works, and the red flags on both sides.

https://adamculpepper.net/blog/chicago-developer-salary-guide 2026-08-18T00:00:00Z

Chicago developer salary numbers for 2026: BLS medians, Built In pay by level, coastal cost of living math, and what moves an offer, from the hiring chair.

https://adamculpepper.net/blog/chicago-tech-scene 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z

A field guide to the Chicago tech scene in 2026: who's hiring, where the hubs are, what the jobs pay, and why the cost of living math works in your favor.

https://adamculpepper.net/blog/core-web-vitals-guide 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z

A practical guide to Core Web Vitals optimization for marketing sites: which metrics matter, which fixes move them, and which web performance tweaks waste a sprint.

https://adamculpepper.net/blog/web-performance-roi 2026-09-01T00:00:00Z

The web performance ROI numbers that survive scrutiny: Deloitte's 0.1s study, Vodafone's LCP test, redBus's INP win, and how to buy speed work that pays for itself.