• Battle of the Captchas

    My task this week was to figure out an alternative captcha to Google’s ReCaptcha. Here’s a quick history lesson on the ReCaptcha and some other options to it.

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  • Adventures in site optimization

    I’ve been working on a company website. It’s a Wordpress site with a custom theme built from scratch to reduce any wastage as it’s a rather custom layout. Page load times have been rather slow, so I used Google’s PageSpeed Insights as a guideline on things to improve.

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  • Freelance

    I’m currently available for freelance projects, particularly front-end web development. I do anything from one-page websites to AngularJS apps. I work a lot with HTML5/CSS3 and Javascript, and particularly enjoy developing Javascript features and UI/UX work.

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  • Hello World!

    Hi all, this is a quick introduction before actual content goes up! I’m piratefsh and I’m a front-end web developer at Soft Space during the day, and co-founder and organizer of Code Equality during the night. I teach an intro HTML/CSS class.

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