about me
Hi! My name is Will, and I'm a software engineer focused on performance, site-reliability, and team effectiveness. Before becoming a software engineer, I taught middle school English for two years in rural Yunnan with Teach for China. Class-sizes of 60+ made me passionate about the potential & importance of ed-tech: it's the reason I'm currently working at ClassDojo, and was why I learned to program in the first place. (Speaking of ClassDojo, I've worked there for almost 8 years because I've loved the mission & the engineering culture. We're hiring!)
In my personal life, I enjoy D&D, fun fantasy & YA novels, bad wordplay, and slacklining. My fiancée and I live in Colorado Springs with a prancy pooch, and a ferocious feline.
- email:
basename will-keleher.com .com | sed 's/-/./' | awk '{print $1 "@gmail.com" }' - github
about this site
This site was an excuse to play with AWS, bash, HTML, CSS, and Make. It's static, doesn't use any frameworks, and should hopefully be acceptably fast even on slower connections. Building it from scratch was fun, even if it was was a bit of a bad idea productivity-wise.
Things I learned building it:
- CSS media queries don't work without
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">in the<head> - You can set up dark-mode using
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark). One simple trick: if you only have a little CSS to start with, it's pretty easy to update :) - Related: I have no design sense
- AWS settings for S3 and Cloudfront are surprisingly hard to get right; I had expected them to be the easiest part.
- the
awscli supports a--profileflag imagemagickis amazing, and can do things like stripping metadata from images:ls ./static/*.jpg | xargs -I {} -n1 convert {} -strip {}- twitter preview
<meta>tags are supported by other apps like slack