Hello, world!

I’m Jacob Sewell.
I am a web developer and this is my web development website, where I blog about things I develop for the web.

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    Packaging Up My Types

    It’s been on my wish list for a while to combine the types that exist in more than one repo into a package, and getting to a proof of concept turned out to be easier than I expected.

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    Going Distributed

    In the spring of 2018 I flew to New York City to start a new job. I had never lived in New York before, and I still haven’t, unless you count my onboarding week, because this was my first distributed (remote if you’re nasty) job, and I have not looked back since. (Yes, there was…

  • Early momentum

    At the end of the previous post, I had started working as a web developer. I got more and more comfortable in PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript, and got used to the idea of having a salary, insurance, and a 401(k). In the 3rd to 5th years of my development career I probably learned as much…

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Jacob Sewell (he/him) is a web developer living in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife and their two kids.