Hey, I'm Steve.
I’m a Senior Front End Developer at Qantas and I'm building The Finances App in my spare time. I focus on building performant, accessible, and secure websites that deliver high business value and great user experiences. I've worked for a variety of Australian companies, spoken at meetups/conferences in Sydney, contributed to open source projects including Preact, and answered questions on StackOverflow since 2008.
Recent Articles
View All- Reviewing AI work with change previewsA skill that turns a finished code change into a one-page visual review: before/after screenshots with arrow callouts, steps to reproduce both states, a short walkthrough video, and the diff split into annotated sections.
- window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new worldChrome introduced a new API, window.showDirectoryPicker() that allows the user to grant access to a directory on their computer and allow a website to read/write everything inside.
- Translucent sidebars in Electron appsmacOS Tahoe introduced slight translucency for app sidebars, and you can add the same effect to an Electron BrowserWindow using the vibrancy property.
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Photos by Size
A macOS app that lists your Photos library by file size, biggest first, so you can see what is eating your storage.
Salary Ticker
A macOS menubar app that shows how much you've earned so far today, ticking up in real time.
The Finances App
A local-first personal finance app for analysing spending across multiple accounts.
CSS Advent Calendar
Created an advent calendar in 2024 + 2025 to showcase new CSS & JS features.
Dazzle
I built a self-updating framework for Apple Dashboard widgets back in high school.
