👋🏾 Hey, I'm

Ciarán

I'm a full-stack software engineer from Cape Town 🇿🇦. I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of the web, music, Linux, art, online privacy, history and anthropology. All of those sorts of things.

I'm currently working as a Full-stack Software Engineer at Tripco. I got into the tech industry in 2018 as a content writer, and I've been working as a full-stack (self-taught, and often solo) developer since 2020. I've worked for large companies and freelanced for small businesses - ranging from e-commerce, to social initiative and portfolio websites, InDebted, and various side projects of my own.

I also make music. You can see what I'm reading here and find my other social links in the footer.

My Public Repositories and Projects

🖥️ xml-trap (Typescript, Bun)

📀 Selecta (Next.js, TypeScript, Spotify)

🛶 RED Cape Town (Next.js, TypeScript)

🗞️ RAG Feed Reader (Next.js, Typescript, Go)

🥁 Parabyl - Lizard People EP (Next.js, TailwindCSS)

🤖 Machine Learning Experiments (Embeddings, GANs)

🐁 Go Experiments (MIDI, Scrapers, Utils, OpenGL)

Writing

Tailwind is Bad (If you don't know how to use it)

~ 12 minutes

Finding Jobs on Twitter using the OpenAI Embeddings API

~ 5 minutes

Reading Articles Later, without Paywalls

~ 2 minutes

Ethereum Eco-System for Web Developers: Smart Contracts, Tokens & Tools

~ 18 minutes