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 meh

🏚 🧑‍🍳 🍜
  • Therapy was good. We need to make a chores list/handbook so Rachel and I are on the same page.
  • Woke up a lil late after a night with friends.
  • Was able to sorta hit flow state. I need that more.
  • Made a salad and a watermelon + mint sorbet. Nice to not have to cook anything but use the CSA.

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

⏱ 14  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: AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models by Chip Huyen The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation by David Kamp Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church by Gareth Gore City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 by Milton Sanford Mayer The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) by Cixin Liu In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Friday Night Lies: The Bishop Sycamore Story by Andrew King 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 (Pantheon Graphic Library) 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

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

Pray For Haiti by Mach-Hommy [14 scrobbles] Bloom by Beach House [10 scrobbles] Dots and Loops by Stereolab [10 scrobbles] freeform jazz by Uyama Hiroto [8 scrobbles] I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away by Hayden Pedigo [7 scrobbles] Totally Right by wrong way up [6 scrobbles] Après coup by Laurie Torres [3 scrobbles] 13 Months of Sunshine by Aminé [2 scrobbles] Vacay by Aminé [2 scrobbles]