Hi there! 👋 I'm Shalanah, a software engineer specializing in frontend development and design. I've focused on interactive editors to help users create photo albums, holiday cards, photo filters, math lessons, and solar panel systems. Although my passion lies in user interfaces, I've also worked with Node, Python, AWS, Firebase Functions, and MongoDB. Currently, I'm on a self-funded sabbatical giving talks and experimenting with ThreeJS, Blender, R3F, NextJS, and Rive.app.

You can connect with me on LinkedIn, Twitter, or view previous community Talks.

Calming streamers that twirl and whirl in the breeze - or try to tangle them all up :)

The missing web features of iOS - using caniuse data

Handy website for in-app detection, download testing, and in-app escape methods

Animation study with Rive + React

Loving-kindness meditation web app

Spiral and other image filters web app. Went viral on TikTok (#spiralbetty over 140M views and 6K posts)

Book layout (design) and landing page

Package for in-app detection (on npm)

A new way to create leading on the web - no JS or font metrics needed

Find the first character of each line of a block of text

React, Javascript/Typescript, responsive websites, PWAs, styling (CSS/SCSS/Tailwind/Styled Components/CSS Modules), web animation (GSAP, useSpring, RAF, SVGs, Canvas), Redux/RTK

Github, VSCode, AWS, Netlify, Firebase Functions, Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Blender

ThreeJS, R3F, Python, Next.js, MongoDB, Node