Hi, I'm Dave Barnwell 👋
📍 Cornwall, UK | 🤖 Software Architect / Full Stack Developer | 🎶 Music Lover
- 💪 ActionStorm – Campaign management platform.
- 👩🏫 Pass - Ed Tech platform.
- 🏛️ Open Britain – Campaigning for a fairer UK democracy.
- 🥳 Sched/Emamo - Event management platform.
- ⚡️ Best Energy – Renewable energy/IoT platform.
- 💰 Crowdfunder – Crowdfunding platform.
- 🧭 SlowWays - walking routes between Britain's towns, cities and national landscapes.
- 🚥 StateMachine – A TypeScript state machine implementation
- 🪲 rollbar-cli - CLI for rollbar with an Agent Skill. Let AI squash your bugs. Improvements via PR welcome.
- 🏄🏻♂️ Surfhog – A Surf forecast for West Cornwall, with 20+ years of climatic data.
- 🧑💻 d4b - A Personal portfolio and blog.
- 🗜️ Favicon Maker – A tool to create favicons for your website.
- 🛜 Open Graph Checker – A tool to check your Open Graph tags.
- ☀️ Weather Checker – A tool to check your weather.
- 🎶 Music streamed – Music i've been streaming recently.
- 🎶 davesgroove - I make it a daily goal to listen to a vinyl album. It's a ritual and a relaxing experience, I post some of these on Instagram.
- 📚 Books read – I aim to read at least one book a week, often SciFi or Crime Novels; serious tech books get a look-in too.
- Ship product fast, in small increments, learn from customer feedback, iterate, don't wait on perfection.
- Customer feedback is more important than code tests when rapidly growing new product features.
- Code tests are essential for long-term stability and reliability.
- Constantly reeducate yourself, learn new skills and technologies, judge which are worth investing more time in.
- Soft skills should be in balance with Hard tech skills, we all have to communicate, even solo developers.





