About me

My name is Zander, I live in London, UK

Work experience

Current
Dare
Staff Software Engineer
Previous

Side projects

I am a keen open source contributor, and have created and maintain a number of open source projects, including:

Lang Compare
Compare language features across a range of topics in a structured, comparable format.
Astro, TypeScript
Repo
url-merge
A zero-dependency URL path joiner. Like path.join() but for URLs.
TypeScript
Repo
Otter
Self-hosted personal bookmarking app. Open source.
React, Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and authentication (powered by Supabase), Tailwind
Repo
zander.wtf
This very website. Open source.
Astro, TypeScript, PostCSS, Tailwind
Raycast extensions
A collection of Raycast extensions for personal and public use. Some are published to the Raycast store.
  • Bird
    View your X/Twitter bookmarks and likes in Raycast using the bird CLI
  • Search npm Packages
    Search and favouriting for npm packages. 18k+ users
  • GitHub Stars
    Display and filter your recent GitHub stars. 3.3k+ users
  • Otter
    View, search and add for my Otter bookmarking project. Not published to the store yet.
  • Code Notes Search
    Search my code notes with Algolia Not published to the store yet.
Journal
Personal journalling app. Open source.
SvelteKit, TypeScript, A.I. powered text improvements, PostgreSQL and authentication (powered by Supabase)
cloudflare-worker-scraper
Page Metadata Scraper with Cloudflare workers. It uses a Cloudflare's HTMLRewriter to scrape the page for metadata and returns it as JSON.
TypeScript, Cloudflare workers
Code Notes
TILs, snippets—my digital code garden. This site has been archived and has been incorporated into the "notes" section of this site.
Astro, TypeScript, PostCSS, Algolia search
Repo
Rigel VS Code theme
Port of Rigel theme for VS Code
Code Notes (Gatsby Theme)
Gatsby theme for your digital garden (archived)
Gatsby, MDX, TypeScript, Theme UI
Design System Utils
Design System Utils is a micro framework that standardises your design-system and provide helpful utilities to access its information. It can be used with styled-components, emotion, glamorous or any other CSS-in-JS framework.
prismic-reactjs-custom
This is an opinionated fork of prismic-reactjs that allows you to use custom React components instead of standard HTML tags.
Kickoff
Kickoff is a lightweight, flexible and robust Sass-based front-end framework that is a great starting point for any web site. Developed for projects at TMW, but it grew way beyond internal projects into something that many other companies and developers use on projects of all sizes.
trak.js
Universal analytics event tracking API wrapper

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