Hi, I'm Thomas.

I build companies and tools to support small businesses and educators.

Alongside my work at NearSt, I consult founders and engineers on everything from setting up their first business to designing technology platforms.

Recent writings

Building an Interactive Markdown Textarea Re-creating some of the features of the GitHub markdown editor, especially image pasting and file dropping. Creating Awesome Embeddable Scripts I was looking at a video about the new version of Apple's MapKit JS, their web maps library, and they showed how to initialise the SDK by loading the... Switching My Blog to Zola Switching from Next.js on Vercel to a much simpler site generated using Zola. Building Composable React Components Imagine you're building a component. You might add some props to control the appearance, like variant or size. You end up with a component… Pro Software for the iPad I've complained about it before, but I still don't understand the Apple pundits that come out every year when new iPads are released to… View all →

What I'm working on

NearSt - Making products visible online to get more in-store customers. Street Art Cities - The world's largest street art community platform and app. Infowijs - Communication tools used by 100s of Dutch schools. Ministry of Urban Culture - Promoting and supporting youth culture across Europe.