Hey, I'm Stephen

I co-founded Modulz to bridge the gap between designers and developers. Along the way we created Radix, accessibility-first React components, and Stitches, a styling library with excellent DX.

I was as an Engineering Manager at Marmot and Newell Brands, launching ecommerce sites and eventually moving to NYC to lead the front-end engineering efforts across the corporation.

I also wrote my first book:
Game Development with Swift

I led engineering for a digital agency in California, producing high-profile sites for companies like Levi's, Dockers, Belk, and Genentech.

Stephen Haney backpacking in the Sierras. A mountain lake is in the background.

Projects

DearDiary.AI

Turn your journal into music.
A first-place winner of the Google Magenta hackathon.

2020 Machine Learning NLP Music

Technical Posts

Get contenteditable plaintext with correct linebreaks

Browser bugs lead to incorrect results from the .innerText API

2020 Browsers

React Styled Components in IFrames

How to use Styled Components inside nested IFrames

2018 React CSS-in-JS

SKSpriteNodes anchorPoint in Swift and SpriteKit

A how-to guide on using anchorPoint in SpriteKit

2015 Swift SpriteKit

Upside Down SKPhysicsBody when Loaded From Texture

Working around a bug in SpriteKit's physics engine

2015 Swift SpriteKit

Event Triggers and Event Listeners in Swift, Updated Swift 6.2

Introducing a library for event based patterns in Swift

2015 Swift

Camera Shake with SpriteKit in Swift

Creating a juicy camera shake effect in SpriteKit

2014 Swift SpriteKit