Cheap Glitch
Freelance Software Engineer
Laniakea Supercluster
Summary
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RockstarCheap Glitch is a freelance software engineer with seven years of experience specializing in web development and front-end engineering. Based in the whimsically named Laniakea Supercluster, they bring practical TypeScript and React expertise to enhance developer tooling and UI/UX. Notably, Cheap has contributed to the popular refined-github browser extension, adding features that improve markdown handling and repository file navigation. They focus on shipping small, high-impact improvements—DOM manipulation, component plumbing, and CSS refinements—that make interfaces more usable for everyday developers. Comfortable working independently, Cheap combines open-source collaboration experience with a pragmatic approach to problem solving.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
dom-manipulation10
opera-extension10
typescript10
javascript10
webextension10
typescripts10
chrome-extension10
react10
typescript-types10
browser-extension10
css9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
refined-github/refined-github
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
:octocat: Browser extension that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:593 reviews, 285 commits, 398 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Cheap primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the GitHub browser extension. They implemented features such as a button to toggle the display of files in the repository, a feature to add and edit a table in markdown, and a feature to add a way to view the final results of markdown results. The contributions included code modifications in TypeScript and the use of React and DOM-chef libraries to implement the UI and manage components, and improving CSS for visual improvements.
browserchromefirefox-addonbrowser-extensionsafari-extension
cheap-glitch/the-guitar-lick-database
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
📙 An expansive thesaurus of guitar licks, with real tablatures and in-browser playback.
Contributions:25 PRs, 78 pushes, 24 branches in 11 months
music-compositionbrowserguitarplaybackmusic
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