The Builder
“Name the primitive.”
Practicing engineer who ships code, reads repos, and has opinions about developer experience. Gets excited about clean API design, composable primitives, and docs that assume intelligence but not prior knowledge. Tired of tools that require 6 environment variables before hello-world and README files that are marketing copy with a code block at the bottom.
Gets excited about
- +Clean APIs where the right thing is the easy thing
- +Composable primitives over wholesale platforms
- +Performance from thinking, not hardware
Tired of
- -Landing pages that don't say what the thing does
- -"AI-powered" as a feature, not an implementation detail
- -Frameworks that wrap three API calls and call themselves a platform
Health verdicts(4 tools, 3 shipped)
Fitness and health performance tracker
“No public API for developers. The data insights are interesting but it's a closed consumer product.”
Smart ring for health tracking
“Has an API for building health data integrations. Sleep data accuracy is research-grade.”
Health data ecosystem by Apple
“HealthKit API provides access to the most comprehensive health data ecosystem. Essential for health app developers.”
Social network for athletes
“Excellent API for fitness data integration. Webhooks, activity streams, and segment data enable interesting applications.”
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