Business and marketing sites
Fast, credible sites for small businesses and organizations, on a platform your team can actually update.
Custom websites and web apps, built by a defender.
I’m Colin. For five years I’ve built sites and data-driven tools for people whose projects don’t fit a template. I’m also a blue-team cybersecurity student and a back-to-back Minnesota state CCDC champion, so what I ship is built to hold up when someone pushes on it.
Async by design: send a written brief, get a written reply within two business days.
Self-test
This page, checked live in your browser.
- Encrypted connection
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- HTTPS enforced (HSTS)
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- Content Security Policy
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- Clickjacking protection
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- Cookies set
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- Third-party requests
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- Page weight
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- Ready in
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Turn on JavaScript to run the self-test.
- Back-to-back Minnesota state CCDC championBlue team, keeping a live network running while a professional red team attacks it
- Five years of freelance web developmentBusiness sites, web apps, and community platforms
- Third-year cybersecurity studentBlue-team defense, system analysis, and forensics
- Network administration backgroundSwitching, firewalls, and keeping services up
Three kinds of work, one way of building
Pick the one that sounds like your project. If none of them do, that’s usually the interesting kind, and you should still get in touch.
Web apps and dashboards
Tools for data or processes that have outgrown a spreadsheet: dashboards, client portals, booking and tracking systems.
Community and interactive platforms
Maps, trackers, leaderboards, and tools built around how a community, club, or event actually runs.
Click the map to drop a pin.
Duluth Lighting Challenge
A holiday lights contest needed a way for people to find every display in town.
Entrants submitted an address. The site converted each one to latitude and longitude and pinned it on an interactive map, so anyone in Duluth could find the competing light shows. Hand-built in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
The map here illustrates the idea in this site’s style. It isn’t the original.
Read the case studyBuilt like it’s going to be attacked
In competition, my team inherits a network, keeps its services running, and holds it while a professional red team tries to take it apart. That habit carries over into every website I build.
Locked down by default
Strict security headers, current software, admin accounts with multi-factor sign-in, and nothing installed that the site doesn’t need. Fewer moving parts means fewer ways in.
The right tool for the job
Plain HTML when that’s all you need. WordPress when your team wants to edit it. SvelteKit when the site has to think. If a template would do the job, I’ll tell you.
Yours from day one
Your domain, your hosting account, your code, and plain-language notes on how it all fits together. No lock-in, and no login you have to ask me for.
Fast and quiet
No bloat and no trackers following your visitors around. This site is the sample: the self-test at the top of the page is checking it right now.
How a project runs
Five checkpoints, all in writing, so you always know where things stand.
- TP1
Brief
You describe the project in a short written form.
- TP2
Proposal
Scope, timeline, and price, agreed in writing before work starts.
- TP3
Build
A private preview link and a written update every week.
- TP4
Review
You test it on your own devices. I fix what you find.
- TP5
Launch
Hardened, documented, and handed over in your name.
Have a project a page builder can’t handle?
Send a brief. It takes about five minutes, and you’ll get a written reply within two business days.