Welcome to The Webb Page, lightweight edition!

Listening to: Let God Sort ’Em Out by Clipse

Working on: existentially, being intentional with my time; corporally, nickel.video

Feeling: exhausted about the state of the world but hopeful for the state of the web

Last watched: TRON: Ares, and it was sick af

TL;DR bio: Architech × Excessively Black × East Coast kid on the West Coast × JU$T × Building a better Internet

I go by NetOperator Wibby, NetOpWibby, or netop://ウエブ pretty much everywhere online. "NetOperator" is the term given to chronically online people internet enthusiasts in the Megaman Battle Network series, one of my favorite game series of all time and constant source of inspiration.

TL;DR career bio: From college dropout to self-taught designer turned developer during the 2008 recession → Stopped working on music to focus on family and career → lots of startup work → Now I work at a major "fruit" company. Not bad, eh? Bless the Internet.

Short life bio: Voracious reader, absolutely loved mystery books: Encyclopedia Brown, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Archie Comics, &c. Frequently took things apart and collected scraps to build "inventions." Avid sketcher and jotter of ideas.

Majorly influenced by Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, Timbaland, Clipse, N.E.R.D, Nujabes, Shing02, Fat Jon, Five Deez, &c and wanted to make music and beats. Performed exactly once and was recognized on the street afterwards ("your performance was really good"). Developed a perfectionist mindset, which is to blame for my debut album still under wraps (lyrics still hold up though), among other things.

Married the girl of my dreams in 2017 (maiden name? Page). We met on a web page in 9th grade, a little known social network called "Classface." Webb + Page. You can’t make this up. Oh, and I lost my job four days after our wedding (IoT company imploded and we were the last to know). You wanna hear God laugh? Make plans. Now we have a loquat tree in our backyard in sunny California…LOL (Love Our Loquats)!

I try to live life according to The Golden Rule, and to stick to my ethics and morals as much as possible. It’s bothersome when I find that others do not. But like…that’s life? It’s annoying though. You all should think like me!! 😤

Anyhoo, I love the internet. The internet has empowered me to learn, explore, and get inspired by so many cool people around the world. If you love yourself, you probably love others and aren’t bigoted. That makes you cool as fuck. If this isn’t you, I hope you find peace.

Email: paul@webb.page / LinkedIn

Mastodon: @netopwibby@social.coop

Blacksky: @webb.page

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NAME: Paul Anthony Webb
EMAIL: paul@webb.page
HOMEPAGE: https://webb.page
COMPANY: https://inc.sh
PORTFOLIO: https://dsgn.inc.sh

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░ EXPERIENCE

2020-NOW: development for Apple’s marketing and communications team on behalf of Critical Mass. I’ve worked on the iPhone and Vision Pro marketing pages and some internal sites. this translates to my a11y work benefitting the lives of millions.

2012-2019: smattering of failed startups (IoT, YouTube “competitor”, Medium “competitor”, &c) and stints at dev shops/consultancies.

▒▒ EDUCATION

2008-NOW: self‑taught in a recession and learned on the job ever since. Personal side projects deepen my understanding of technology and subject matter; business decisions are made in response to evolving market forces.

▓▓▓ SKILLS

HTML/CSS/JS / ✦✦✦✦✦ / my bread & butter
TypeScript / ✦✦✦✧✧ / i love being forced to write better code
GraphQL / ✦✦✦✧✧ / i write .graphql files, no apollo here
10x Development / ✧✧✧✧✧ / i literally do not care

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░ TOOLS

Bun: because using SvelteKit with Deno involves hoops I have no interest jumping through, I gotta use something and Bun fills that need well.

Claude: waaaaay better than ChatGPT. Unlike StackOverflow, get answers without judgement and become more capable with crazier ideas.

Deno: interop with Node.js without any Node.js nonsense? AND native TypeScript support?! Sign me up!

Gel: previously known as EdgeDB, Gel is the database for people who don’t want to think about databases. I’m not a computer so why would I memorize and write SQL? No thanks.

GraphQL: i don’t like Facebook but bless them for creating GraphQL. Holy moly, can you imagine using REST for everything? Yuck.

Procreate: THE reason I purchased the first iPad Pro & Apple Pencil. I don’t use Sketch, Figma, &c for my designs, I sketch in Procreate to form a mental model and I develop from there.

Sublime Text: it just works. Well. As much as I love JS/TS, I need my text editor to be native. Zed is cool but Sublime is better.

SvelteKit: this JavaScript framework feels great to use, it’s the closest to writing web standard code, if that makes sense.

Transmit: using CI/CD pipelines to autodeploy sites and services sound like a blast…I’m still SSH’ing into servers and I often need SFTP to sanity check my janky deploy scripts.

▒▒ PROJECTS

please visit https://dsgn.inc.sh and https://webb.page for the latest. i’m always working on something interesting (to me, you can agree if you want).