James R. Williams
James R. Williams

Hey, I'm James!

A development engineer from Canada, building internet things with JavaScript.

I have over 6 years of experience building digital experiences, with a keen interest in developer experience, process automation and documentation. I am currently a Technical Lead working with the folks at Points.com, building the future of loyalty.

Recent posts

Displaying a progress bar for a series of promises
Promises are awesome. They make dealing with asynchronous operations in JavaScript a breeze without having to visit or even think about call-back hell. One thing I have often wanted to do is display a progress update for a series of Promises to the…
Lightweight templated pages with Alpine.js
Alpine.js is a super lightweight (15.04 KB) JavaScript framework that adds some basic interactivity and templating behavior all via HTML attributes. It helps with templating pages with data, like looping, toggles etc. all with a minimal markup based…
Using GitHub issues as a CMS
Reading lists, you know that feature in your browser you never quite use. You know the one, saves a URL for a rainy day. This is my quest for a better reading list. I once used Pocket for about a month (the Mozilla one), but it felt like it was…
Building an app using Gatsby, Firebase, and Sanity.io
During the second Points' hackathon of 2021 I was involved in a project that aimed to build an application to gamify our on-boarding process with interactive activities and reinforced learning. It featured various quizzes that are added to certain…
Monitoring subresource integrity issues on the client
One of the more recent web security topics I have been working with is subresource integrity or SRI. These take the form of hashes set as the integrity on various assets which help mitigate against file manipulation attacks by providing a way for a…

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Side projects

Flagpole

Easily register and work with feature flags in your theme with Flagpole. This WordPress plugin allows developers to easily configure feature flags in your WordPress themes.

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image-api-service

A Python/Flask API that generates dynamic images for use in README files and web pages.

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batch-commit

An experiment in writing Git automation tools as a NodeJS CLI with Oclif. This automates creation of empty commits and tags to trigger CI activities in bulk.

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You can see more of what I have been working on (publicly) on my Github profile: https://jamesrwilliams.github.io