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Joe Steinbring

My experience

A comprehensive look at the technologies, languages, platforms, and practices I have worked with over more than 20 years.

Right now

What I am most excited about

Four things I keep reaching for at the moment. Everything below this is measured; this part is not.

  • Astro

    A site builder that ships static HTML by default and hydrates only the components that need to be interactive.

  • Web Awesome

    A library of framework-agnostic web components from the makers of Font Awesome.

  • Vue.js

    A progressive JavaScript framework for building interfaces, and the one this site is built with.

  • Exo

    Distributes a model across several machines so hardware that could not run it alone can run it together.

Outside work

What I write about most

Three technologies account for more of my writing than any others, which is a fair measure of what holds my attention when nobody is paying me to hold it.

Period

  1. JavaScript

    14 articles

    1. Vue.js

      24 articles

    2. Node.js

      8 articles

    3. React

      4 articles

  2. Artificial intelligence

    20 articles

    1. AI & machine learning

      22 articles

    2. Ollama

      21 articles

    3. scikit-learn

      1 article

  3. Web components

    7 articles

    1. Web Awesome

      17 articles

    2. Lit

      3 articles

  1. JavaScript

    21 articles

    1. Vue.js

      30 articles

    2. Node.js

      10 articles

    3. React

      4 articles

  2. Artificial intelligence

    20 articles

    1. AI & machine learning

      22 articles

    2. Ollama

      21 articles

    3. scikit-learn

      1 article

  3. Web components

    7 articles

    1. Web Awesome

      17 articles

    2. Lit

      3 articles

  1. JavaScript

    73 articles

    1. Vue.js

      56 articles

    2. Axios

      17 articles

    3. Node.js

      12 articles

  2. Artificial intelligence

    20 articles

    1. AI & machine learning

      22 articles

    2. Ollama

      21 articles

    3. scikit-learn

      1 article

  3. Web components

    8 articles

    1. Web Awesome

      18 articles

    2. Lit

      3 articles

Counted from the articles published on JWS News, by the day each one went up. Grouped by subject and never added together: an article about Ollama is usually tagged as AI as well, so the counts inside a subject overlap.

At work

Where I have worked, and what came with me

Every role on my résumé since 2006, with the technologies I carried from one job to the next. A line that runs the whole way is something I have used at every job, and the breaks that cut across every line fall where I changed jobs.

Where I worked

  1. UW-Milwaukee

  2. Kohler

  3. Starkmedia

  4. Quality Matters

  5. Bader Rutter

What I used in more than one job

  1. JavaScript

  2. HTML

  3. SQL

  4. Relational databases

  5. CSS

  6. Distributed version control

  7. CFML

  8. Centralized version control

  9. PHP

  10. Testing

  11. API development & testing

  12. Containerization

  13. Managed WordPress

Used in one job only, so that job's line already shows when:

Show the years as a table
Where or whatYearsWhen
Where I worked
UW-Milwaukee12 years2006 to 2011, 2016 to 2021, and since 2024
Kohler1 year2011 to 2012
Starkmedia2 years2012 to 2014
Quality Matters1 year2015 to 2016
Bader Rutter2 years2021 to 2024
What I used
JavaScript20 yearssince 2006
HTML20 yearssince 2006
SQL20 yearssince 2006
Relational databases20 yearssince 2006
CSS20 yearssince 2006
Distributed version control17 years2006 to 2011, 2012 to 2014, and since 2016
CFML15 years2006 to 2021
Centralized version control2 years2011 to 2012 and 2015 to 2016
PHP12 years2012 to 2014 and since 2016
Testing12 years2012 to 2014 and since 2016
API development & testing10 yearssince 2016
Containerization7 years2016 to 2021 and since 2024
Managed WordPress7 years2016 to 2024
.NET2 years2021 to 2024
Cloud platforms2 years2021 to 2024
NoSQL & vector databases2 years2021 to 2024
Artificial intelligence2 years2021 to 2024
PaaS & static hosting2 years2021 to 2024
Virtualization2 yearssince 2024
CI/CD pipelines2 yearssince 2024
Distributed storage2 yearssince 2024

Drawn from the dates on my résumé and the jobs each technology page names. The table rounds to the year and bridges the few months between one job and the next.

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Explore my experience

Languages & frameworksThe languages, standards, runtimes, and application frameworks I have used throughout more than 20 years of full-stack development.DatabasesRelational databases I have worked with for more than 20 years, and the document and vector stores I have added for cloud applications and AI workflows.Code version controlSource control from Subversion to Git, which I introduced at Starkmedia, and the GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD pipelines that automate my builds.TestingI tested in Sauce Labs at Starkmedia and UW-Milwaukee and in BrowserStack at Bader Rutter. Now I test on virtual Android and Apple devices, and check accessibility with WebAIM’s WAVE.Artificial intelligenceI served on an AI working group at Bader Rutter, where I built a retrieval-augmented generation system for the agency.The FediverseI operate two Fediverse servers, the Toot Works Mastodon instance and JWS Social on GoToSocial, and advocate for decentralized social media.Hosting & infrastructureThe containers, virtual machines, cloud platforms, and managed hosting I have used to run applications, at work and for my own projects. At UW-Milwaukee I helped create the university's Shared Web Application Hosting Environment (SWAPP), and I now maintain it, along with its Galera database cluster and GlusterFS storage.

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