Tom Walker
Operations specialist. Front-end developer. Loves gelato.
Specialties
- Front-end Engineering,
- Product Design & Engineering,
- Content Management Systems,
- React
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Illustrations for ReactConf AU 2020
A unique illustration for each presentation
·15 min readarticle
Thinkmill in Space
The year is 2225. Thinkmill has taken to space. Currently orbiting the moon, sending explorers to discover the universe.
·8 min readtalk
Creating Apps with JavaScript
Tom and Boris discuss and demonstrate how (and why) to prototype UI animations and interactions before development, and how to build a native-quality app for SydJS using web technologies.
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The agent trusted a committed docs folder of generated artefacts over my instructions. I deleted the lot and lost nothing.
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