About Me
Hi, I’m Lukas.
I’m passionate about crafting better experiences and finding ways to make tasks more efficient.
On the Big Five, I score:
- Openness to Experience: high
- Conscientiousness: medium
- Extraversion: low
- Agreeableness: medium
- Neuroticism: medium-low
On the Enneagram, I score Type 5, Wing 6.
Currently, I’m a JavaScript Application Developer at SKYCATCHFIRE, building web applications and websites that are less, but better. In my free time, I explore topics online and dive into books—honing my skills jack-of-all-trades style. I’m always seeking work that matters for people who care.
On 2023-05-13, I received a Bachelor of Science in Business, Marketing from Miami University.
Goals
- Become an expert in extracting knowledge
- Become an expert in articulating knowledge
- Do work that matters for people who care
Favorite Books
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Design
- 1988 Donald Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
- 2001 Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- 2003 Erik Spiekermann, E. M. Ginger, Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out how Type Works
- 2003 Alina Wheeler, Designing Brand Identity
- 2019 David Airey, Identity Designed
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Development
- 1995 Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month
- 1999 Andrew Hunt, David Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer
- 2017 Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- 2023 Kent Beck, Tidy First?
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Marketing
- 1993 Robert Cialdini, Influence
- 2006 Joseph Sugarman, The Adweek Copywriting Handbook
- 2006 Marty Neumeier, The Brand Gap
- 2014 Erin Meyer, The Culture Map
- 2018 Seth Godin, This Is Marketing
- 2021 Andrew Chen, The Cold Start Problem
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Other
- 1985 Richard P. Feynman, “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
- 2008 Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems
- 2013 Robert R. Hoffman, et al., Accelerated Expertise
- 2018 James Clear, Atomic Habits
Design Projects
Development Projects
Marketing Projects
Technical things I’m confident in
- HTML
- CSS
- ECMAScript (JavaScript)
- Git
- React.js
- JSX
- Node.js
- Deno
- Next.js
- Remix.js
- Firebase (Auth, Firestore (NoSQL))
- Tailwind CSS
- Prisma
- “JAMStack” — Netlify, Vercel
- Jekyll
- Liquid templating
- Java
Technical things I’m less confident in
- Docker (use it often, but mostly already set up)
- PHP (novice)
- GraphQL (novice)
- SQL (rusty)
- Postgres / MySQL / SQLite (want to learn more internals)
- Python (rusty)
- Ruby (rusty)
Technical things I’ve yet to experience
- GSAP
- Three.js
- SASS
- jQuery
- …a lot more
This page uses…
Handwritten HTML and CSS.
Hotwire Turbo for client-navigation.
Contact
- Email lukas at lukasmurdock dot com