Any sufficiently advanced engineering is indistinguishable from art.

Essays, the packages I pull out of my work, a few products of my own, and other things worth stashing.

Recent essays

  1. Reliable Machines From Unreliable Parts · 16 min
  2. The Dangers of Regulatory Capture · 22 min
  3. Where Does Software Engineering Go From Here? (Part 1) · 30 min
All essays

Open Source

Dogfooded on this very page: the hero wave, the frosted navbar, even the tab favicon. Published so you can use them too.

ascii-fx

Exact structural ASCII: 8×8 shape-matched glyphs with closed-form colour fit, on WebGPU compute with bit-identical CPU fallback.

6.1k downloads/mo

materials3d

Ready-made hero visuals for three.js: glass, liquid, metal and ceramic lit from behind in four passes.

2.8k downloads/mo

liquid-glass-js

SVG-first liquid glass for the web: refraction on live DOM that works in every browser, with WebGL escape hatches.

3k downloads/mo

wave3d

Browser-based studio for authoring 3D gradient waves, shipped as poster-first, lazy WebGL packages.

2.4k downloads/mo

geoglyph

Every country as a mark the size of a letter: the outline it's recognised by, optionally blocky, and its flag to pour inside.

1k downloads/mo

Welcome to Obrigado.dev!

/help for help, /status for your current setup

cwd: ~/Code/principlestash.com

▶web: pnpm dev:web·api: pnpm dev:api:3000:5173

runcommand

Your project's run command and its live localhost ports, in your status bar and shell prompt. LLM-detected once, cached per project, and clickable.

408 downloads/mo

favicon-env

Tints your favicon per environment so dev, preview, and prod tabs are distinguishable at a glance.

269 downloads/mo

ultimate-ts-starter

TypeScript monorepo starter: web, mobile, server, terminal and extension apps sharing auth, API, design tokens and i18n.

Things I’ve helped bring to life

Products I lead today, plus a few things from earlier in my career still worth talking about.

What I lead

Founder-led · current

One link for every way to get paid: Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, Zelle, Wise, crypto and regional rails, across dozens of countries.

Borderless generosity: charitable giving in stablecoins and crypto, across borders, with no intermediaries or conversion fees.

Coming soon

They’re pretty cool, stay tuned

  1. Undisclosed project 1
  2. Undisclosed project 2
  3. Undisclosed project 3
  4. Undisclosed project 4

What I’ve worked on

Selected contributions

Microsoft Teams

2022–2024

Owned Graph Data & BI; co-built the Virtual Appointment Graph API. The road to your next recurring meeting was paved with good intentions; I have spent every commit since trying to atone.

Primary owner & engineer

AI4Good Lab

2017

Built the inaugural Lab from scratch and mentored its first cohort, laying the foundation for a national program now spanning four cohorts and hundreds of alumni pushing AI forward.

Organizer & mentor

My playbook, as agent skills

The same production judgment I bring to client work — packaged as skills your AI coding agent loads, so it makes the calls I would instead of the ones that page you at 3 am.

modern-frontend-architecture

Frontend architecture that survives real traffic: component boundaries, state that scales, and performance & accessibility budgets baked in from day one. The calls we'd make on day one, handed to your coding agent.

understudy

Point it at any URL and it measures the whole brand off the live page: colour, type, spacing, and the motion static tools can't see (durations, springs, stagger). It writes a design-model.yaml, then learns the feel on top.