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Hi, I'm Lee
I'm a prior U.S. Marine turned software engineer in the United States building websites and apps that Americans use all around the world.
Due to sweeping budget reductions in the federal government, I have new availability for work.
Web Development
Everything in the world of JavaScript and Node.js.
Short-term contracting
Available
Full-time employment
AvailablePower Platform Development
Canvas Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, etc. with Power Fx and JavaScript.
Short-term contracting
Available Full-time employment
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I'm also a founder and volunteer organizer at Code & Coffee, a non-profit org that hosts meetups for programmers in 35 cities across the U.S.
My Coding Philosophy
(for web dev)
#1: Make it work
The most important part: it has to work. How good or fast your app is doesn't matter if it
doesn't do what it's suppose to do. Documentation and design docs can be important,
but it shouldn't come before proof of concepts. I like to understand the problem and
create a solution that makes the most sense.
"Discovery above theory."
"Bias towards action"
#2: Make it pretty
Putting look-and-feel above performance is controversial, and I've gone back and forth on
this throughout my career. The reason I usually place design above performance is because
most small- to mid-size businesses simply don't benefit from performance increases. You
got an API service to go from 4s to 3s? Great! You're still paying for one VM and have 75%
of your capacity available.
Developers love endlessly optimizing (I sure do!),
so I think it's important to stop yourself and think about using your time to improve the
customer experience.
#3: Make it fast
Listing performance as third does not mean I'm saying performance isn't important. It
obviously is. I'm just saying, in my experience and assuming competent code, performance
differences on modern hardware is negligible.
However, that also doesn't mean
forget about performance entirely. If you've created a product for a customer that does
its job beautifully, or if you're a huge corporation where every second is thousands of
dollars (this is very uncommon), then it's time to start thinking about optimization.
Good Reading
By Anders Hejlsberg
Mar 12, 2025
"Awesome that the developers at Microsoft, who own many in-house tools and languages, chose to use Go (a language from Google) for the new compiler."
By Ryan Peterman and Steve Huynh
Mar 7, 2025
"Fantastic interview! I wish there was more long-form content from the upper ranks of software engineers."
By Jay Grieves
Sep 30, 2024
Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? By Martin Fowler
Jul 8, 2024
"Software quality is extremely important, but the fruits of the labor are not always immediately visible. Often times this is brushed aside by key stakeholders and decision makers at large companies. This is one of my favorite articles of all time, capturing perfectly how I feel about the importantance of high quality code and why management should care. "
By Randall Degges
Nov 11, 2023
By Flater on Stack Exchange
Sep 22, 2023
By samsch
Jul 14, 2023
Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers By Isaac Lyman for Stack Overflow Blog
Oct 19, 2022
