Bjorn Hansen
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I'm Bjorn

Entrepreneur

Full stack engineer

Chill guy

Portfolio

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This website!

I designed and built this portfolio website using modern web development tools, including:

Skills & technologies

React
Next.js
Vercel
Tailwind CSS
JavaScript
Typeform
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Blackbird

My previous startup. Blackbird is a cutting-edge coding education platform used in K-12 schools. We helped teach over 15,000 students to code in the classroom and demonstrated high educational efficacy with large pilots in prominent school districts in the United States and abroad. We also released 4 popular Hour of Code activities on Code.org.

Skills & technologies

JavaScript
jQuery
PHP
PostgreSQL
Sass
Bootstrap
AWS
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Goodist

I built this MVP for a customized charity subscription app. Giving effectively to charity can be hard in this noisy world -- how do you know which organizations will have the most impact? A friend and I were trying to come up with an easier way to give while also knowing your money was going to the best charities working in the areas you care about. We decided not to pursue this concept, but it lives on as a portfolio project!

Skills & technologies

Firebase
Firestore
JavaScript
jQuery
Bootstrap
Webflow
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Writing

Set up a development environment for React using Create React App and VS Code

April 11th 2023

In this blog post, I will show you how to use Create React App and VS Code to create a simple React.js project and run it on your local machine.

Read on Medium

How to Choose the Best Programming Language to Learn First

August 11th 2020

Which programming language should you learn first? The answer is: just pick one and start learning!

Read on HackerNoon