Eli Gundry

Glad To Meet You!

My name is Eli I only really write in lists, so here's my deal.

  • I am a 🧑‍💻 full stack web engineer.
  • I love to plan and 👨‍🍳 cook elaborate meals. It really activates the engineering part of my brain!
  • I have a 🤓 non-traditional computer science education. I attended a vocational school in high school, taught myself web programming, bounced around colleges for computer science while working the entire time before deciding to go pro!
  • I am a Vim Logo Vim user but I actively encourage everyone to use something else. Using Vim in 2024 is a cool bar trick.
  • I currently live in 📍 Astoria, Queens. I didn't think I would settle down in Queens and love it as much as I do, but life is like that sometimes.
  • I have a 😼 fat cat named Fonzie and I sorta have a tattoo of him on my arm.

How I'm Feeling

A while ago, I decided to start journaling my feelings. Being a software engineer, I made an API out of it and put it on my website. The favicon for the site the emoji for my latest entry.

I felt good

🥩 🧹 🧑‍🍳 🍜 📚 💆‍♂️
  • I’m on a tear reading right now. Just finished 2 Caro books and am very close on two other non-fictions.
  • Cooked a nice dinner of chicken thighs au poivre with actual French peppercorns. Ugh so delicious.
  • I started going to a college football bar across the neighborhood to watch OSU games. Nice change of pace and the wings are nice.

Do You Code?

My life is all about making web applications. I am the generalist you have in mind when you describe a “full stack engineer” and can and will do everything to get a feature successfully to production. Query running slow? Let me at it. Need a thoughtfully designed API? I can do that in my sleep. CSS needs some tweaking? As long as I don’t need to design it, I’ll make it look great.

Review my code on GitHub!

Are You A Blogger?

I'm certainly trying to be! I try to write four posts a year. Sometimes I exceed it, other times, I completely whiff. No pressure though. Below are some of my favorite posts.

1st Favorite

⏱ 12  Minutes

📝 By all means, make that money in crypto, but not all money is right.

2nd Favorite

⏱ 15  Minutes

📝 Let's quickly run through my life and see how ADHD has effected it.

What I'm Reading

I wish I read more, but there are only so many hours in the day. These are the books that I'm reading right now. You can find me on Goodreads.

Currently Reading: All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment by Jason Schreier The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral by Ben Smith

What I'm Listening To

I listen to way too much music and I love to listen to full albums. I mainly listen to hip hop, indie rock and emo. I occasionally write reviews of old albums that I love but aren't well known in a series called ICYMI.

In order to listen to more new music, I created Album Mode.party, which recommends me albums that Spotify's algorithims would never dare show me. It's the first application I have built that I use daily!

Seasonal Playlist

On Repeat

OFFLINE! by JPEGMAFIA [20 scrobbles] Revolver (Remastered) by The Beatles [17 scrobbles] Rubber Soul (Remastered) by The Beatles [15 scrobbles] GNX by Kendrick Lamar [12 scrobbles] Phantasy & Reality by Lynn Avery [9 scrobbles] Salad Days by Mac DeMarco [9 scrobbles] Broken Social Scene by Broken Social Scene [7 scrobbles] Dope Game Stupid by Bruiser Wolf [6 scrobbles] BLP2020 "King of the Night" by DJ BlackPower [6 scrobbles]