Daniel Schmidt

Frontend engineer working on the difficult parts between product, design and engineering.

I care about architecture, accessibility, performance and developer experience - the things that make software good to use and pleasant to maintain years later.

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The day job

At Charlie Tango, I help set the technical direction on larger web projects while staying hands-on as a developer.

I’ve helped shape our frontend platform and engineering practices, led frontend architecture, improved accessibility and testing, mentored developers, and built tooling that makes the work easier for the teams using it.

1. 2026Viaplay Sport NewsSports newsroomUmbraco Awards runner-upSports news, clips and video, backed by a custom Umbraco newsroom built for live publishing.
2. 2025SundhedsstyrelsenPublic healthA new public health platform built as a shared multisite setup, with accessibility and maintainability treated as part of the architecture.
3. 2024MDT+Clinical decision supportA clinical tool for preparing and discussing cancer cases, bringing patient data and AI recommendations into the same workflow.
4. 2023FeriepartnerHoliday bookingHoliday-home search and booking, with a map and result list that work together across desktop and mobile.
5. 2022EDCProperty platformA content-heavy property platform with a custom React layer integrated into .NET.
6. 2020VælgererklæringPublic serviceAn accessible and secure public service for giving and withdrawing voter declarations.
7. and many more

Open source

I maintain react-intersection-observer, a React library downloaded around 20 million times a month.

Open source is where I turn recurring project problems into reusable tools. Occasionally, several million other people need the same thing.

1. react-intersection-observer

   Tell a React component when it enters the viewport.

   A hook, a render prop, and a component over the Intersection Observer API. It reuses observers where the options match, and ships a test mock so tests do not need a browser.

   Look insideDocsSource20M downloads a month

install the whole look

Afterglow is the design system this page is drawn with, cut into a shadcn registry you can install piece by piece.

1. afterglow

   Old-school terminal UI

   Phosphor green on unlit glass, a pink signal for the thing that is actually happening, hairline borders and no corner radius anywhere. A whole design system, cut into pieces you can install one at a time.

   Look insideDocsSource

It’s a Unix system!

When I saw Jurassic Park back in 1996, the dinosaurs were cool. But not as cool as the “unix” file system, flown through in 3D to lock the doors. I have wanted to build one ever since.

1. FSN

   Visualize and navigate your file system in 3D space.

   Point it at a folder and the files stand up in front of you, in the same arrangement every time you open it.

   Source

Schmidt’s Arcade

Say hello

• hello@thebuilder.dk
• GitHub
• X@teh_builder
• LinkedIn