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Senior Web Developer
WordPress · JavaScript · PHP
30+ CMS projects across agency and in-house roles, with consistent improvements in site speeds going down from 5-3 seconds to 2-1 seconds. I've been involved in multiple 1,000 page migrations across my 15 year career seeing 50% increase in organic traffic after massive site overhauls.
Public repos and tools on GitHub
A WordPress starter framework for building custom block themes using Full Site Editing (FSE), modern build tooling, and a Docker-first local development workflow.
Language
PHP
A WordPress plugin for displaying exit intent and timed popups with A/B testing and Google Analytics 4 integration.
Language
PHP
A fast, native macOS image gallery and viewer built with Swift and SwiftUI. No Xcode required — built entirely with Swift Package Manager from the command line.
Language
Swift
Selected client case studies
The Shai Hulud worm hit TanStack and 170+ other npm packages by poisoning a pnpm store cache in GitHub Actions. Here is how the attack worked and the concrete steps I took to harden my own projects against it.
The official Claude Code extension had five behaviors that added friction to my workflow. Rather than waiting, I built a companion extension that patches it in-place.
A comparison of SwiftUI and AppKit as UI frameworks for macOS, covering how each handles layout and rendering, where each performs well, and what the choice means at scale.
"Blake is, without exaggeration, the most capable web developer I've worked with. He combines deep technical expertise with calm, focused execution, even under the most intense deadlines."
"Blake is one of the nicest, most patient, and dependable developers I've ever worked with. You will very rarely hear a simple 'no' from him. He's the kind of guy that looks for solutions and ways to get to yes."
"Blake is relentless in his pursuit to create solutions to technical problems and yet knows when to offer up variable solutions if a path would extend beyond the budget or timeframe available."
