Howdy 👋

I'm Jalen, a designer & web developer who spends most days building things with Craft CMS, Laravel, Vue, and Tailwind CSS. I care a lot about workflows — maybe too much. A repetitive, clunky process is the kind of thing I'll happily disappear for an afternoon to fix, and most of my open source projects came out of exactly that itch: smoothing rough edges so other people don't have to.

What you'll find in my repos

Twig Toolbox — vscode-twig-toolbox brings a complete Twig 3 grammar and a real language server to VS Code, with first-class Craft CMS awareness.

Spark — A set of opinionated boilerplates and tooling for spinning up new projects fast.

• spark-craft — an opinionated boilerplate for Craft CMS projects
• spark-craft-lab — a disposable Craft CMS runtime for smoke-testing plugins
• spark-cli — a CLI for various Spark boilerplates
• spark-docker-images — opinionated Docker images for various Spark boilerplates
• spark-github-actions — reusable GitHub Actions for building and deploying Spark-based projects

Craft CMS plugins — A whole shelf of plugins I've built over the years.

• craft-preparse — a field type that parses Twig when an element is saved
• craft-metronome — Laravel-style task scheduling for Craft CMS: one crontab entry, everything else in PHP
• craft-lockout — temporarily lock certain users out of the control panel
• craft-altcha — integrate Altcha's privacy-first spam protection into your Craft CMS forms
• craft-readtime — estimated read times for Craft CMS entries, counting every field and nested block
• plus a few more

Laravel Forge — Helpers and ready-to-deploy stacks for Laravel Forge.

• laravel-forge-recipes — a collection of recipes and other scripts designed to enhance your Laravel Forge workflow
• laravel-forge-traefik & laravel-forge-plausible — ready-to-deploy Traefik and Plausible stacks for a Forge server

Odds & ends — Everything that doesn't fit neatly above.

• tailwindcss-fluid — fluid clamp() utilities and range variants for Tailwind CSS v4
• dotfiles — my personal collection of dotfiles

Get in touch

I'm always happy to talk shop — feel free to reach out using any of the links in my profile. And if something I've built saves you time, sponsoring my work is a lovely way to say thanks.