Landon

Frontend Application Developer

He/Him

About Me

Hello! My name is Landon (AKA Lando), and I'm a software developer who primarily focuses on application frontends. My expertise is in React (I know, I know), but I've also dabbled in other frameworks like Svelte and Eleventy. At work, I'm a senior engineer and a mentor, and I care a lot about best practices and elegant, maintainable code.

I currently live in Virginia with my wife and our two cats. In my free time, I love video games, TTRPGs, board games, and the occasional programming personal project. Mostly I've been playing Old School RuneScape since my wife got me into it, and some of our recent board game favorites include Tokaido Duo, Wingspan, and Lovecraft Letters.

As far as tech culture goes, I like hearing about new web dev news and internet technologies. However, a lot of my recent energy has gone into learning more about distributed social networking solutions and putting thought into how we can "scale down" our internet infrasctructure (to borrow @cwebber's words).

To that end, I've been keeping up with Christine Lemmer-Webber's long but fascinating blog posts as well as the work of the Spritely institute. I think they have a lot of really important thoughts on social network technologies and how we should move forward to ensure we maintain a healthy social space free from corporate interests.

My Projects

Personal Website

The website you're looking at! I created this site from scratch using 11ty, and I had a lot of fun doing it. I want this to be a central place for my thoughts, interests, and research that I can keep adding to over time.

When you spend as much time online as I do, I think it's worth investing into your online identity and connecting with others as best you can. I don't accomplish all of that all the time (I'm a lurker after all), but this is me trying to create something honest and human in this crazy corpo world.

Check out the code here!

Check Your Balance

This was a passion project that serves as a quick and easy way to track Player Characters and Non-Player Characters in the tabletop roleplaying game Avatar Legends, by Magpie Games. I used it myself for some of my games and was pleased with the results.

The unstated goal of the project was to get some experience using a framework called SvelteKit, which uses Svelte to make performant and reactive web applications.

Check out the code here!