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Pete
pete
Sunlight Mountain, Colorado. 26 years in. Still mostly building things nobody asked for.
milky way · stacked exposure
9 DATES · 1993–2026
Nine dates
- 1993
- Taught myself to code. I was eight.
- 1997
- Took a bus to Boston, alone, at twelve, to introduce myself to the people whose software I had been beta testing.
- 1998
- Admin on about a dozen Hotline servers. In the archived chat transcript I am “zarf.”
- 2000
- Fifteen, first paid job. I built a trivia game on their chat server; when the regulars memorised the questions, I let them write new ones, and the game paid them in points every time one of theirs came up.
- 2007
- Prepress technician, 300–500 unique orders a day. I wrote software to automate the job I was doing. Nobody asked.
- 2011
- CIO over three states. Four years and four months after the typesetting.
- 2012
- Flew to Louisville on New Year’s Day. Wesbase is what came of it.
- 2022
- Moved onto a mountain as resident manager. Executive Director now.
- 2026
- 4 clients, 40 sheets, and a survey of the mountain I live on.
METHOD
How I actually work
Sight
I can’t picture things in my head, so I build them to see them. That is most of the explanation for everything on this site.
Notebook
- FINDINGS.md
- EXPERIMENTS.md
- RUNBOOK.md
- CONTRACT.md
- DECISIONS.md
Nobody asked for any of these. There is no team. I just want to know whether the thing worked.
Leverage
57% of my commits are AI co-authored. It changed how much I can run at once, not what I can build.
Range
My breadth is my depth.
5 SHEETS
An audience of one
Built for me, or for the friends I talk to most nights. No users, no roadmap, nothing to sell. This is what the range is actually for.
40 PROJECTS · 8 CATEGORIES
By the numbers
40 projects · 19 live · shipping since age 15 · 8,200 ft
most-used technologies · ranked by projects using each
- TypeScript22
- React17
- Supabase16
- Next.js15
- Playwright13
- Tailwind CSS13
- Python11
- Three.js8
- Vercel8
- Framer Motion7
- Recharts7
- Vite7
projects by year
12012
142024
52025
202026
40 projects surveyed
171 TECHNOLOGIES · 7 GROUPS
What I work with
Languages
TypeScript · Python · C++23 · Lua · Dart · JavaScript · C · C# · Java · PowerShell · SQL · Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS
Frameworks
React · Next.js · Tailwind CSS · Electron · Capacitor · FastAPI · Flask · Flutter · Expo · Fabric (Minecraft) · Minecraft · Preact · React Native · React Router · Unreal Engine 5
Libraries
Three.js · Framer Motion · Recharts · Zustand · D3 · TanStack Query · Deck.gl · Leaflet · Lenis · MapLibre GL · NumPy · OpenGL ES 3 · React Three Fiber · Riverpod · shadcn/ui · Socket.IO · xterm.js · bitECS · Chart.js · date-fns · Drizzle ORM · faster-whisper · GrapesJS · GStreamer · jsnes · laspy · librosa · Matter.js · Mermaid · NextAuth.js · ONNX Runtime · PixiJS · PlayCanvas · Pydantic · pyusb / libusb · pywayland · QuickJS-NG · Radix UI · rapidfuzz · Rapier 3D · rasterio · React Flow · react-spring · TensorFlow · Tiptap · Tone.js · Zarr v3 · Zod
Infrastructure
Supabase · Vercel · systemd · Hyprland · Node.js · Docker · Omarchy · Redis / Upstash · SQLite · Wayland · Firebase · go2rtc · Linux · Cloudflare R2 · PipeWire · Quickshell / QML · Unraid · Android · Caddy · Cloudflare Tunnel & Access · Drift (SQLite) · Gunicorn · LiveKit · NVENC / NVDEC · Quickbase · Tailscale · udev · Vulkan
Services & APIs
Resend · Sentry · Slack SDK · Anthropic · OpenAI · Twilio · Stripe · UniFi Protect API · WeatherLink API · WeatherNext 3 · Ayla IoT cloud · BigQuery · BirdNET-Analyzer · Claude Agent SDK · Decap CMS · Google Cloud Chirp 3 HD TTS · Google Earth Engine · MCP · OwnerRez API · Ruckus WiFi API · Yale/August Smart Lock
Tooling
Playwright · Vite · Vitest · ffmpeg · pytest · COLMAP · CTest · esbuild · fast-check · GoogleTest · Gradle · Lizard · PhantomJS · Puppeteer · Radon · tree-sitter · ts-morph · Unreal Automation · wf-recorder / grim · whisper-ctranslate2 · Wireshark / USBPcap · xvfb
Techniques
Web Audio API · GLSL Shaders · HDR / colour management · HTML5 Canvas · WebRTC · WebSockets · PWA · Server-Sent Events · USGS 3DEP LiDAR · Web Workers · Bioacoustics · Boids / flocking · Custom DSL · Custom Physics Engine · Deterministic simulation · Excel macros · Forecast verification · HEVC / H.264 · Opus · Outdoor-reset control · Protocol reverse engineering · Rigid-body simulation · Web Components · WebCodecs · WebGPU (WGSL)
39.40°N · 107.34°W · 8,200 FT
Tell me what’s broken.
Or just email me: pjeide@gmail.com