I have been buried in Ruby for the past eight years, creating web sites and applications for clients of several sizes and varying needs. I have read lots of books including 'Eloquent Ruby' and watched a lot of screencasts such as Railscasts and Destroy All Software.

I have been working in Ruby on Rails for the past eight years, creating web sites and applications for clients of several sizes and varying needs. I have read lots of books including 'Eloquent Ruby' and watched a lot of screencasts such as Railscasts and Destroy All Software. (same description as my Ruby expertise block, I know)

I am pretty fast and knowledgeable in vim. I can help beginners. I rate myself a 7 for not knowing much vimscript or too much advanced stuff.

I have read the Pragmatic Guide to Git, I use git every single working day, and I keep my commits atomic and as well described as possible. I'm comfortable with rebasing, bisecting, stashing, and merge conflicts.

HTML was my first venture into web coding. I have kept up on HTML5 and CSS3 even as a backend programmer, and I generally know how to keep things clean, optimized, and semantic. I know the basics of Sass as well.

I have been using jQuery since around the days of 1.0. I'm still pretty familiar with its present idioms.

One year of plain vanilla JavaScript knowledge but backed by years of general programming understanding, have read some books such as Javascript the Good Parts and Functional Javascript. My JS work is usually test-driven.

I've always had to be mindful of white hat SEO practices and am still generally good at it. No measurable results, but at least I don't use any dirty or silly tricks. Write for humans first, and the engines will figure it out naturally.

Been able to use Coffeescript since it started, should be able to help adequately for newcomers.

I worked at a startup that used Backbone.js and I'm more or less familiar with the idioms and documentation to help newcomers.

I have been working with Vue in production for about 2 years now, I am absolutely in love with this framework and hope to continue building my skills

Have built many apps which read JSON endpoints, POST/PUT to json endpoints, and server-side APIs which provide JSON endpoints

Have worked somewhat in React, would honestly need a refresher as I have since switched to VueJS, and I would certainly not be a burden on anyone's team

I am a 20+ years experienced Front- and Back-end developer, who has worked for hundreds of clients ranging from small startups to large city governments. My skills include Ruby, Rails, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and thoughtful User Experience design.

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Joseph S.

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Technical skills