Den Odell
Frontend Architect · Author · DeveloperBuilt web apps used by millions. Wrote the books that teach others how.
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Code Reviews That Actually Improve Frontend Quality 20 August 2025Most frontend reviews sign off clean code. But your users don’t see the code, they see the bugs you missed.
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We Keep Reinventing CSS, but Styling Was Never the Problem 6 August 2025We keep changing how we style the web, but the real problem isn’t CSS. It’s how we build around it.
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The Web Is About to Get Better for Everyone, Everywhere 23 July 2025What happens when accessibility stops being a best practice and starts being the law? We’re about to find out.
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👋 Hi, I’m Den Odell, a frontend architect, developer, and author.
I’ve helped ship products for global brands, led the frontend discipline at AKQA, written JavaScript books used in university courses, and now build tools to make fast, accessible interfaces the default.
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🚀 I’m open to new roles that value thoughtful UI, performance, and real user impact.
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