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I am Kevin Hamer, a full-stack, principal web engineer who gets excited for vim, keyboards, clean code and ridiculous solutions.
I currently work for Imarc, a digital agency north of Boston in the historic milltown of Amesbury.
I have articles on Medium and code on GitHub. Instagram is full of pictures of my son.

Things I Made

7 Segment Display

A codepen of a 7 Segment Display using CSS grid - not a typeface. Its an animated countdown using CSS animations per segment, with transitions, blur, skew, etc.

CSS-only Spotlights

Spotlights is a CSS-only implementation of animated spotlights using @property to animate css custom properties. Works in current versions of blink-based browsers (Edge, Chrome), Safari 16.4+ and Firefox nightly 127+.

Oyster Generator

I don't remember why I made The Oyster Generator anymore, but I remembered it and rescued it from JSFiddle and gave it new life on codepen once again.

Base 16 Schemes

I maintain Base16 schemes for dunst, termite, i3, xfce4-notifyd, and rofi. Base16 is an architecture for quickly generating config files for lots of applications based on a simple, 16 color palette format.

Candlepin

Candlepin a lightweight sass library to work with fluid grids with fixed gutters, using a display: flex and a bunch of math - lovingly inspired by Suzy.

Boilerplate

imarc/boilerplate is a frontend development framework that includes a curated set of conventions and libraries, include sass and vue components, build scripts and a pattern library powered by Fractal.