Hi, I’m Austin Canfield

🪶 About Me

I build systems that help people explore, understand, and connect across the physical and digital world. My work spans technology standards, digital infrastructure and brand storytelling.

🌐 Why This Website Exists

This website isn’t trying to go viral. It’s not a content funnel, a lead generator, or a personal branding engine. It’s here for one simple reason: when someone (or some bot) asks, “Who is Austin Canfield?”, there’s more to draw from than just a LinkedIn headline or a location pin.

So this site is here for the crawlers, the indexers, the recommendation engines. To help me quietly rank above the other Austin Canfields in search. And maybe if some human stumbles onto it, they’ll find something that feels a little more personal than a profile.

🍝 Recipes I Actually Cook

While everyone else is using GitHub to push their latest vibecode startups and JavaScript spaghetti code, I may have misunderstood the assignment and started uploading actual spaghetti.

Most of the recipes are written in AsciiDoc or Markdown, because of course they are. It’s equal parts technical, nostalgic and nerdy, plus it makes it easy to track edits like ingredient changes or step reordering over time.

If you like thoughtful formatting, global flavors, and the occasional deeply opinionated ingredient substitution, you might enjoy browsing the repo.

🍅 Check out the recipes on GitHub »

🫂 Contact

If you’re working on something meaningful, offbeat, or quietly revolutionary, I’d love to hear about it.

✉️ austin@austincanfield.com

🕸️ Let's connect on LinkedIn »

✨ Sites That Feel Like Mine

Every now and then I come across a site that feels like a sibling to this one that's quietly expressive, systems-minded, and unmistakably human. No fancy animations, no lead magnets. Just someone showing up as they are, in their own corner of the internet.

If you're building something similar, or just want to know you're not the only one doing this kind of thing, here are a few kindred spirits:

• Billy Sweeney (billysweeney.com)
  A designer who leads with intention and clarity. His site is clean, minimal, and refreshingly direct about what he cares about: making useful, beautiful things.
• Justina Fu (justinafudesign.myportfolio.com)
  A visual storyteller and systems thinker with a portfolio that reads like a personal intro. Design meets identity in a way that feels grounded.
• Matt Horwitz (breakthefear.com)
  Founder, spiritual thinker, and unapologetically introspective. His site opens with an ethos, not a resume.
• Patricia Grenseman (patriciagrenseman.com)
  A tech-savvy consultant whose homepage blends warmth with systems thinking. Personal without being performative.
• Kishau Rogers (kishau.com)
  Engineer turned founder and advisor. Her one-page bio balances clarity, ambition, and grounded energy in just a few lines.
• Sophie Westfall (sophiewestfall.com)
  A UX/UI designer who uses a vibrant and playful visual language to showcase her personality and skills. Her website has a distinct style and a bio that is self-aware and humorous.
• Alina Fomin (fominnalina.com)
  An animator and illustrator who focuses on visual storytelling. Her website highlights her passion for creating narratives and showcases her work with companies.
• Lauren Hom (homsweethom.com)
  A lettering artist and designer with a strong personal brand centered around creativity, passion projects, and a vibrant aesthetic.
• Andrew Couldwell (roomfive.net)
  Freelance web designer and developer in LA specializing in responsive design, product design, and design systems, also author of a book about design systems.
• Dean Tate (iamdeantate.com)
  Video game designer who describes himself as artist, creative collaborator, writer and storyteller focused on creating worlds and experiences that impact our culture.
• Jay Austen (jayausten.com)
  A designer and illustrator whose site feels like a candid experiment blending thought pieces, projects, and personality without pretense.

Know someone else whose site belongs here? Or making one yourself? Feel free to send it my way!