Web development
Remember to timesheet your "fixing dependencies" time
Developers spend lots of time trying to update packages or get someone else's code running on their machine. Make sure you and your team are tracking this time.
Senior full-stack web developer
Hello, I'm Paul Stone.
I am a web developer with 26 years of commercial experience who lives and works in London, UK.
- Experience
- 26+ years building things professionally on the web
- Location
- London, UK where I live and work
- Skills
- Full-stack front-end, back-end, dev-ops
What I do
A generalist, happy across the whole stack.
Websites & CMS builds
Sites built in Craft CMS, Statamic, WordPress and Next.js — or plain static HTML when that's all you need.
Web apps & internal tools
Laravel and Symfony applications that support business processes and help teams work more efficiently.
Troubleshooting & oversight
Untangling awkward problems, keeping large, complex projects on track, and mentoring developers along the way.
Tools of the trade — in a <marquee>, for old times' sake
- Laravel
- Craft CMS
- Statamic
- Symfony
- WordPress
- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
Writing
Latest articles
Web development
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Thoughts
Facebook has killed my friend email archive
Social media has the ability to prevent your social history being recorded.