About
Hi 👋🏾 I’m Trent Brew. I design and build things on the internet.
You’ve stumbled upon my working notes. They’re kind of strange, so some context might help. These notes are mostly written for myself: they’re roughly my thinking environment. But I’m sharing them publicly as an experiment. If a note seems confusing or under-explained, it’s probably because I didn’t write it for you! Sorry—that’s sort of an essential tension of this experiment.
Extended bio
My coding journey began when I discovered Game Maker 7.0 in 2010. I’d spend hours after school building Sonic the Hedgehog fan games, sharing them online, and learning how to improve. Eventually I started building games in JavaScript, which was the gateway drug that led me to front-end and eventually full-stack development.
These days, aside from a plethora of side projects, I spend most of my time at Turtle Labs designing and building software products as a one-person studio — full-stack engineering, brand, and design under one roof. I take on a handful of clients at a time and care especially about work with a mission behind it.
I love learning and I’m always looking for ambitious projects and hard problems to dig into. If you’ve got an idea or something that needs solving, I’d love to hear from you!
On the web
I don’t post on social media and my content lives almost exclusively on my personal website and on this blog. That said I am active in a few other digital spaces:
- GitHub: @trentbrew
- Bluesky: @trentbrew
- LinkedIn: @trentbrew
- Instagram: @trent.brew
- Pinterest: @trentbrew
About this site
My personal website is built with Vue.js and is hosted on Vercel. I use Notion as my content management system, and The source code is available on GitHub. The codebase is a hot mess, but I’m planning to release a standalone version of the window manager as an NPM package sometime in the future.
This blog is built with Astro, Svelte, Tailwind, and PocketBase. It’s hosted on Vercel, and is a custom version of the awesome fuwari template built by @saicaca. Here is the original codebase: