I’m Roger Stringer, and I’m a product engineer, writer, speaker, and foodie in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada.
I’m also a dad, music lover, film buff, comic book collector, camper, and foodie. I spend my spare time building things, doing fun stuff with my daughter and friends, camping in our 1999 Honda Stepwagon, and cooking up new recipes to post on here.
This blog is where I write and share. You will see everything from posts about tech and design, reviews, and food.
I originally started this blog back in 2003, and it’s been around in one form or another since then. Older posts may occasionally get cleaned up to keep this blog fresh.
What I Bring to the Table 💼
Over the past 25 years I've worked with companies of all sizes building solutions of all sizes and for the past two years have been focusing on AI automation and implementation.
As a product engineer, I focus on creating great user experiences by working backwards from what the product should be, using whatever tools and technologies are needed: I don't just write code, I think about the whole product from frontend to backend while staying focused on what users (and therefore customers) actually want.
- Extensive experience with Javascript(Astro, React, HTMX, Alpine.js, Remix, Next.js, Vue, Nuxt), along with PHP, Rust, Go and Python.
- Headless architecture integration (Directus, Strapi, Sanity, WordPress and Shopify)
- Full-stack AI development and automation expertise
- High-quality website development with seamless AI integration
- AI consulting to supercharge your business
- Custom AI automation systems that work for you
- Considerable infrastructure and implementation experience
Additional Projects 🚧
- I built Chef Brainy, an AI powered recipe generator, give it some ingredients, a cooking style, number of servings, even choose a favourite chef and it will generate a recipe for you.
- I also blog at Coded Geekery, which is a slightly longer form, sometimes more opinionated blog where I share coding tips as well as other useful information.
- I wrote the Twilio Cookbook for Pakt Publishing (And the second edition too).
- I wrote Real-Time Twilio and Flybase for apress.
Colophon 📖
This site is currently running on Astro with Directus acting as a headless CMS and hosted on Vercel. For client-side interactions, it uses a mixture of htmx, Alpine.js and plain vanilla Javascript, but more and more is moving towards htmx.
All posts and pages are written in markdown.
I use VS Code for all my coding / writing and Warp / zsh (https://ohmyz.sh/) for my terminal work.
Sponsorship 🙏
If you like what I build, or what I write and share or else just want to show some support for an indie developer, please consider sponsoring me on GitHub ❤️.
Thank you
Disclaimer 👀
Sometimes, I'll post affiliate links on this site. That means that if you sign up or purchase something I’ve recommended after clicking the link, I’ll make a little bit of money. The presence of an affiliate link does not increase the price you pay for an item, but in some cases it gives you a discount or bonus.
I use every product I recommend unless I’ve noted otherwise.
This site is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.