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 user but I actively encourage everyone to use something else. Using Vim in 2021 is a cool bar trick. - Die hard
Cleveland Browns fan and am convinced that we will win a Super Bowl one of these years. - 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
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 🥡
- 🍜
- 👨💻
- ✈️
- Fixed something at work by actually writing tests to make sense of it all
- Made a butter chicken that turned out okay
Do You Code?
I make a living developing web applications. I jump all around the stack and will do whatever it takes to ship. Need me to do some devops to get this feature out? I gotcha. Some CSS is making a button look bad? I'll do my best. A query running to slow? Stop, I can't deal with all this excitement.
GitHub contribution calendars are not a good indicator of whether or not someone is a good developer, but they are very pretty.
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.
By the way, I wrote the Gatsby source that is rendering these bookshelves!
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 music. Below is my current playlist of songs I have on repeat and the top albums I've listened to this week.