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.
Lately, I've been incredibly excited by the potential of AI and the impact it can have (and already has) on the way we work and live.
Tech stack
On a regular basis, I work with Vue, Nuxt, TypeScript, Tailwind, GraphQL, Apollo, Pinia, VueUse, Vitest, PlaywrightRadix, shadcn, StorybookVite and pnpm.
On the backend, I primarily use Node or Bun, with Nitro or Hono as web frameworks, and an SQL db 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 especially like Tanstack Query. I've also built backends and APIs using Nest.js and Express.
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. I also want to dive deep into local-first and IndexedDB.
Beyond web
Outside of web dev, Python is my go-to to, although I'm definitely a bit rusty.
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, before I knew better. 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 haven't stopped since. 290+ books and a 1,927-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, business, 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 Genesis Book ∗ Aaron van Wirdum 📖
- The Richest Man in Babylon ∗ George S. Clason 🎧
- Psychology of Money ∗ Morgan Housel 📖
- Down and Out in Paris and London ∗ George Orwell 📖
- The Boys in the Boat ∗ Daniel James Brown 🎧
- Shoe Dog ∗ Phil Knight 🎧
- Born a Crime ∗ Trevor Noah 🎧
- Elon Musk ∗ Walter Isaacson 🎧
- 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 🎧
- Sapiens ∗ Yuval Noah Harari 📖
- Maus ∗ Art Spiegelman 📖
Podcasts
I listen to podcasts pretty much every day. Bitcoin, ai, macroeconomics, business, tech, hacking, opsec, history, literature.
- Darknet Diaries
- Acquired
- Syntax.fm
- Lex Fridman Podcast
- Lenny's Podcast
- The Rest is History
- The History of Literature
- Money Matters with Jack Mallers
- What Bitcoin Did
- Rabbit Hole Recap
- TFTC with Marty Bent
- Citadel Dispatch with Odell
- Bitcoin Review with NVK
- All-In Podcast
- This Past Weekend with Theo Von
- Inside True Crime with Matthew Cox
- The Morgan Housel Podcast
Movie shelf
I'm not a huge movie buff, but these ones stuck with me.
- Parasite (2019)
- Perfect Days (2023)
- American Psycho (2000)
- Nightcrawler (2014)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- The Machinist (2004)
- Margin Call (2011)
- The Big Short (2015)
- Conclave (2024)
- Chernobyl (mini-series) (2019)