Justin Ferrell

I'm a web and mobile developer with over 15 years of experience building performant and secure systems for the web and mobile.

A lot of my recent work has been exploring around the relationship between web development and advanced digital marketing analytics, as well as performance optimization and optimization for artificial intelligence.

My wife and I maintain two apps for Apple devices that we think are great.

In April of 2026, my wife and I worked with the parents of our son's kidney donor, Emily, to launch The Emily Matejovitz Foundation and its annual scholarship in her memory. 

I live and work in West Virginia with my wife and my son.

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A Contractor's Home

I've been developing software for almost 14 years, with my day-to-day routine revolving around the Terminal and a text editor. I'm sharing this to set the scene for why and how I revamped this website. Even my wife gave me a funny look when I…

Introducing Mastowatch

TL/DR: Mastowatch is my new app and it is a different kind of Mastodon utility for iOS, iPadOS and macOS that allows users to browse and inspect the public details behind Mastodon servers without having to log in. Pick a server (or type one in)…

Hello, World

Let’s be honest, it’s unlikely that I’m going to blog here very often. A recent tweet from @seaotta reminded me that I, like most people, do not have a place to post longer form writing that is 100% mine. This blog is really just to…

Ways of the Force

This was originally published to Tumblr, before this website existed. For better or worse, as long as I can remember, my brain has had what I think is a really weird, and often uncomfortable, habit. When I’m presented with a situation, be it personal, professional…

Same Justin, New Blog

This was originally published to Tumblr, before this website existed. When I was growing up, I wrote stories constantly. I won writing contests, wrote fan fiction for my favorite books, wrote “movies” and even took a stab at comic books a few times. I’ve missed…