Writing - Stuart Sillitoe
Short, dated write-ups on building for the web. Newest first.
July 2026 - A LinkedIn recruiter who loved my profile, the funnel behind the flattery, and why the technical test is the actual attack.
July 2026 - A LinkedIn trial, a dozen offers to make my CV ATS-friendly, and the day I'd already spent doing it myself.
July 2026 - How a tool built for one friend's cleaning business turned into a platform when a second kind of user showed up.
July 2026 - Building a POS for Spanish bars, and why the most important feature was the list of things it will never do.
July 2026 - One data model, three visual flavours, and why a personal site earns an indulgence a client site never could.
June 2026 - Building the Super Pixel Series in Pixi.js, and why three of a planned dozen was the right place to ship.
November 2025 - Bringing AI-assisted work into a front-end team without handing it the keys.
September 2024 - What a sportsbook front-end has to get right in the half-second before a bet lands.
May 2023 - Twenty-odd years of web layout, from framesets to flexbox, mostly learned the hard way.
Full CV at sillitoe.co.uk/cv/.