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Blake Tereau

Full Stack Web Development

Areas of Expertise:

Software

  • Debugging, troubleshooting.
  • Optimization, refactoring.
  • Rapid prototyping.
  • Dynamic, highly configurable web applications.
  • Efficient / tailored web frameworks; frameworks from scratch.
  • User / login systems.
  • Administrative and reporting tools.
  • CSS implementations.
  • Responsive / mobile layouts, ADA compliance, localization.
  • Database and platform migrations and version updates.

Languages

PHP
Python
JavaScript
CSS
SQL

Platforms / Tools

linux
heroku
nearlyfreespeech.net
bash
git
vim

Years of Work Experience:

14.8

Language/Platform Experience Timeline:

2020 :: Xmonad
2020 :: Arch Linux
2016 :: Django
2016 :: Python
2014 :: Coffeescript
2014 :: NodeJS
2013 :: Vim
2013 :: Ruby on Rails
2013 :: Squarespace
2013 :: Wordpress
2013 :: Shopify
2013 :: Magento
2012 :: Haskell
2010 :: jQuery
2010 :: Javascript
2010 :: MSSQL
2010 :: Ubuntu
2010 :: MySQL
2010 :: PHP
2010 :: Perl
2010 :: CSS
2010 :: C
2009 :: Java

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Contact:

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A Short Story:

According to an old legend, one day the samurai lord of Echizen province ordered a pair of sword handle ornaments from a master artist. The lord was eager to have them right away, but knowing the skill of this master, knew that he had to be very patient.

After several months passed, the ornaments still were not ready. One year passed, and still the master artist had not yet finished. The lord was becoming very impatient. Finally, after two years, they were finished and the master artist presented his masterpieces to the lord. The lord was very pleased and ordered that they be immediately used on the handle of his sword.

Unfortunately, while the sword handle was being wrapped, one of the two ornaments was lost. The lord was furious and called the master artist right away to make another replacement. Only two days passed and the master artist presented the lord with the replacement, which was exactly like the orginal. The lord asked the artist, "If it only took you two days to make this one, why did you make me wait two years for the others?"

Without saying a word, the artist grabbed the original and the replacement and threw them both into the pond outside the garden. The replacement sank to the bottom while the original was so delicately and finely worked that it actually floated on the surface. Indeed, the orginal was a masterpiece of two years' effort.

From Kodo: Ancient Ways by Kensho Furuya