Building your own URL shortener with Typescript and Redis
No magic here. Just a simple URL shortener implementation.
Father, software engineer, leader, and entrepreneur.
I’m Will, a software engineer and entrepreneur based in Asheville, NC. When I'm not chasing my daughter around the house with my wife, you can find me hacking on some code, wandering the mountains, enjoying some craft beer, and occasionally building something out of wood.
A few thoughts on fruit and berries
Musings on the joy of picking your own fruit
Programming in the age of AI
Some reflection on how AI tools are changing how we code
Blowing up your Next.js routes with name collisions
How to avoid name collisions in your Next.js routes, and keep your sanity in the process
Work
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- Family
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- Full Time Dad
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- Turing School of Software & Design
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- Director of Frontend Engineering
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- Turing School of Software & Design
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- Instructor
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- Brandzooka
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- Lead Developer
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- Closely
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- Software Engineer
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