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 2025 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

🏚 🥩 🕹 👨‍💻
  • Very, umm… eventful day at work.
  • Spent some time in the evening working on my first personal AI/LLM project. It takes my Paprika export of recipes and generates flexible menus and shopping plans. I have the prompt done, need to make it do structured output, build some UI, and build a Paprika client tow write back my changes.

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: Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long by Richard D. White Jr. That's So New York: Short (and Very Short) Stories about the Greatest City on Earth by Dan Saltzstein Julia by Sandra Newman All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks My First Book by Honor Levy Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson 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 (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3) by Robert A. Caro Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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

Summer Brings the Sunshine by Jimmy Carter and Dallas County Green [16 scrobbles] Rong Weicknes by Fievel Is Glauque [15 scrobbles] GLOW ON by Turnstile [15 scrobbles] Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill by Grouper [12 scrobbles] The Man Who Died in His Boat by Grouper [11 scrobbles] The Car by Arctic Monkeys [10 scrobbles] Luxury Problems by Andy Stott [8 scrobbles] Thembi by Pharoah Sanders [5 scrobbles] Spirit Of The Golden Juice by F. J. McMahon [4 scrobbles]