Hajime, the duck guy

Hello, my name is Hajime. I'm a veteran web developer and web accessibility consultant.

My services

  • Web development

    If you like your web applications built fast, but still high-quality and maintainable, you'll be happy to know I have a track record of getting them up and running quickly with no corners cut. The perks of having a couple of decades of experience.

  • Web accessibility

    Web accessibility is a major issue facing many organizations. If that's you, or you simply want to do the right thing from the very start, you found your guy.

  • Developer training

    Are you unhappy with your performance, or the performance of your team? Would you like to unlock some skills that are almost lost art now? Get in touch or visit the training center and let's get on that journey.

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About me

Hajime's portrait

My career in web development and programming started as an extension of my career as a book designer back in 2003. To me, the web was just another medium for presenting information, and the art of book design was very much about making the content accessible to its reader.

After honing my skills as a one-man development team for years, working on anything from UX design to web development, devops, and embedded Linux, I started specializing in my first love: web UI development. Since 2019, my work involves accessibility engineering, and since 2023, I've been working as an accessibility consultant in addition to providing web development services.

In my spare time, I mentor and train new web developers in the almost-lost art of frameworkless development, both client- and server-side, and provide guidance on accessibility and UX literacy.

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Tools

I build developer tools to make my work easier. I also make those tools available to fellow developers to make their work easier too. In this section, you will find some of them.

  • SVG Spirit

    SVG spirit is a web-based SVG spritesheet generator for SVG icon sets. Check out the SVG spritesheet kata if you are new to SVG spritesheets.

    Open the app

    This app also serves as a small example of how you can build lean and fast vanilla JavaScript applications.

  • Responsive media query bookmarklet

    To build truly responsive layouts, you need to use relative units even in your media queries. This bookmarklet helps you do that. Place the following link in your bookmarks toolbar and activate the bookmark on a page to get the current viewport width in rem.

    Viewport width in rem

    You can read more about how to use this in the responsive layouts article.