Baldur Bjarnason

I’ve been making websites for over twenty-five years, working as a web developer (front-end, back-end, or full-stack) for both companies and charities, small and large, in a variety of programming languages.

I’ve written two books, a course, and a video series on topics related to software development and have been writing about web development online for years.

My preference and primary expertise these days is concentrated on web languages: CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. My JS experience covers Node, Deno, and the Browser, both with frameworks or without.

Projects and code I’ve worked on are being used in production on a number of ecommerce and business sites across the world.

I strongly prefer non-framework solutions – not because I can’t but because standard JS is usually the most cost-effective and efficient approach for most web software projects.

You can find me online at Bluesky, Mastodon, this blog, or my newsletter.

Email me to see how I can help you.

This site has three main sections:

• Essays
• Coding Notes
• Notes

I try to publish the essays on, roughly, a weekly schedule, and they are what I send out to the newsletter. (So, if you’re subscribed to one of this site’s feed, you don’t need to subscribe to the newsletter.) The notes are published more sporadically and I usually only include them as links in the newsletter.

If you want to follow everything on this site, I recommend the main feed, but I also offer feeds for each individual section. You can find all the feeds listed on the feeds page.