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You’ve reached the personal website of Neil Jenkins. Not that Neil Jenkins (although I do sing a lot), and not that Neil Jenkins (I prefer to play football), but this Neil Jenkins. It’s nice to meet you.

Neil Jenkins

I work for Fastmail, where I'm the Chief Product Officer. For over a decade, I've lead the UX design and front-end engineering there. If you want to contact me, I prefer email. My address is neil@nmjenkins.com. If it’s code you’re after, you’ll probably prefer GitHub. You’re welcome to follow me on Twitter, although I haven’t written anything there in years. I’ve also posted miscellaneous texts on this website; it’s a mixture of travel and tech writing. You’ll find a list below, along with links to talks I’ve given and articles I've written elsewhere.

Sporadic Writings.

21.06.24
Presentation: Oh snap! The joy and pain of CSS snap scrolling
(@Web Directions Code ’24)
(Slides / Demos)
20.06.19
Presentation: Compression — slashing the bytes for faster web apps
(@Web Directions Code ’19)
10.02.16
Presentation: Opting Out of the Framework Wars
11.04.14
Presentation: How to do infinite scrolling right
11.02.14
Presentation: A Tale of Cross-Tab Communication
09.10.13
Presentation: The Pursuit of Speed. Part II: The DOM Strikes Back
12.06.13
Presentation: The Pursuit of Speed. Part I: Network Effects (video)
01.05.13
Film review: Bullet to the Head
26.11.12
Inter-tab communication using local storage
21.02.12
Better than Templates
01.11.11
Expanding Text Areas Made Elegant
10.08.11
Film review: Cars 2
14.12.10
Film review: Skyline
15.04.10
Private/protected without using caller
14.04.10
Private and protected fields in JavaScript
20.04.09
The rain in Spain…
10.08.08
A land of contrast
15.04.08
♫ Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen ♫
30.03.08
Introducing nmjenkins.com 3.0
07.09.06
North, further north and then home…
13.08.06
On the road again
13.06.06
Wellington
23.05.06
If you need a lift, you can rely on the Germans
05.05.06
Walk, paddle, fly
20.04.06
Tramping in NZ
11.04.06
Down South
02.04.06
Diving with sharks and other things that eat you
28.03.06
Past, present and future
03.03.06
Last weeks at Nukubulavu
26.02.06
Cakes, kava and cupids (not forgetting the fish!)
02.02.06
Navatu Island
19.01.06
The Yasawas
09.01.06
Namuka Bay Lagoon
03.01.06
Two go off on a whirlwind adventure
18.06.05
About the making of this site
15.06.05
In the beginning