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Frontend Developer Interview Questions I Actually Ask

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.

The Case for Static: JAMstack for Marketing Sites

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.

A Technical SEO Checklist for Developers

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.

Freelance Developer vs Agency vs In-House: Who to Hire

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.

How to Hire a Freelance Frontend Developer: What to Ask

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.

How Much Does a Website Cost in Chicago? Real Ranges

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.

How I Built This Site's Hero Animation with GSAP

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