About
I'm a software engineer with a sharp eye for UX and design, meticulous attention to detail, and a relentless focus on quality.
Skilled in Vue, Nuxt, and full-stack TypeScript, I turn ideas into refined, user-friendly experiences. I'm driven by a deep curiosity and a passion for UX/UI design, developer experience, and writing clean, maintainable code.
Beyond code, I'm obsessed with Bitcoin and a strong advocate for the right to privacy, freedom of speech, self-sovereignty, and open-source software. I'm also deeply interested in economics, cryptography, psychology, and literature.
Tech stack
On a regular basis, I work with Vue, Nuxt, TypeScript, Pinia, Tailwind, VueUse, Vite, Vitest, GraphQL, Apollo and pnpm.
I also semi-regularly use Tanstack Query, Storybook, Radix UI and Playwright.
On my own projects, I usually stick to the Vue ecosystem, with Tailwind or UnoCSS for styling, often pairing them with shadcn or Nuxt UI for UI components.
On the backend, I primarily use Node or Bun, with Nitro or Hono as web frameworks, and an SQL database with Drizzle or Prisma. For scripting and CLI tools, it's usually just Bun, less often Deno.
I also have some experience building projects with React, Quasar, or vanilla JavaScript, along with some smaller projects using Svelte. I've also built backends and APIs using Nest.js and Express.
Some notable libraries I enjoy working with are: Zod, VeeValidate, date-fns, ofetch, h3, bitcoinjs-lib, Mantine.
On my radar
I haven't explored Astro and SolidJS as much as I probably should, and I really want to improve my animation skills—I've been putting off learning GSAP and Motion for far too long.
Beyond web
Outside of web dev, Python is my go-to language. I'm definitely a bit rusty, but I'm starting to pick it up again. Occasionally I use Bash for scripting, though it often ends up with ChatGPT doing it for me.
I worked extensively with Java during my college years but haven't touched it in a while. I experimented with Solidity a few years ago, but later realized there was no future in . More recently, I've been exploring ReScript, a statically-typed language that compiles to efficient and human-readable JavaScript.
In the future, I'd love to explore functional programming, particularly Elixir or OCaml.
Bookshelf
I only started reading in 2020, and I haven't stopped since. Over 280 books and a 1,802-day reading streak later, here are some of my top picks. Narrowing down my favorites was tough. Look me up on Goodreads for more.
Fiction
Mostly classics, a few modern works.
- Animal Farm ∗ George Orwell
- Stoner ∗ John Williams
- The Metamorphosis ∗ Franz Kafka
- Grapes of Wrath ∗ John Steinbeck
- The Mandibles ∗ Lionel Shriver
- Convenience Store Woman ∗ Sayaka Murata
- The Overcoat ∗ Nikolai Gogol
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich ∗ Leo Tolstoy
- The Stranger ∗ Albert Camus
- Chess ∗ Stefan Zweig
- Notes from Underground ∗ Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Project Hail Mary ∗ Andy Weir
- Earthseed (series) ∗ Octavia E. Butler
Nonfiction
Mix of philosophy, economics, memoirs, tech, history, and anything else I find interesting.
- Meditations ∗ Marcus Aurelius
- Man's Search for Meaning ∗ Viktor Frankl
- Psycho-Cybernetics ∗ Maxwell Maltz
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- Broken Money ∗ Lyn Alden
- Thank God for Bitcoin ∗ Jimmy Song
- The Richest Man in Babylon ∗ George S. Clason
- Down and Out in Paris and London ∗ George Orwell
- The Boys in the Boat ∗ Daniel James Brown
- Shoe Dog ∗ Phil Knight
- Steve Jobs ∗ Walter Isaacson
- I'm Glad My Mom Died ∗ Jennette McCurdy
- The Code Book ∗ Simon Singh
- Stephen Fry's Great Mythology (series) ∗ Stephen Fry
- Maus ∗ Art Spiegelman
Podcasts
I listen to podcasts pretty much every day. Bitcoin, macroeconomics, hacking, business, tech, ai, history, literature, comedy, and more bitcoin.
- Darknet Diaries
- Acquired
- Syntax.fm
- Lex Fridman Podcast
- The Rest is History
- The History of Literature
- What Bitcoin Did
- Rabbit Hole Recap
- Money Matters with Jack Mallers
- TFTC with Marty Bent
- Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
- Bitcoin Review with NVK
- Inside True Crime with Matthew Cox
- This Past Weekend with Theo Von
- The Morgan Housel Podcast
Movie shelf
I'm not a huge movie buff, but these ones stuck with me.
- Parasite (2019)
- American Psycho (2000)
- Nightcrawler (2014)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- The Machinist (2004)
- Margin Call (2011)
- The Big Short (2015)