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Hi, I'm Sophie.

I’m a senior web engineer and Web Discipline lead at Monzo.

I care about web accessibility, keeping the web fun, and lowering the barrier to entry for people learning web development.

I build web things by day, but by night I make music with SHE Choir London.

Find me on Twitter or send me an email: [email protected].

About this site

As well as being somewhere I occasionally write things, this site is a throwback to the time when web design was a bit more maximalist than it is now, and websites were collections of weird little code snippets you picked up on your internet travels. Though hopefully it’s a little more accessible and performant than sites were back then.

(I stopped short of adding a trailing custom cursor.)

You’re welcome to steal any code from this site, just promise me you’ll have a go at making it your own and not just copy it straight up.

Like many other people in the early 00s, I learnt to build websites by clicking View Source, copying bits I liked, then changing them slightly. It’s a bit more complicated than it used to be, but I still strongly believe in learning from others and passing it on.

If you encounter any accessibility/usability issues while on the site, please do let me know and I’ll fix them ASAP.

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