• ZUI — a CSS-first UI library with design tokens, a layered architecture, and optional React, Astro, Solid & Vue components. No build step required.
• Otter — my self-hosted bookmarking app: links, articles, videos and half-watched TV shows, saved and tagged on your own infrastructure.
• Reps — a daily JavaScript coding puzzle. Solve one function a day in your browser.
• Free Fonts — a curated showcase of free, high-quality typefaces to browse and preview.
• Simmer — a recipe management app.
• zander.wtf — my website/portfolio/blog, built with Astro, where I write about things like the CSS features powering ZUI, my zero-to-one tech stack, and evaluating AI agents through side projects.
• zed-stack-starter — a modern full-stack React starter: Postgres + better-auth + Drizzle ORM, deployed to Cloudflare Workers.
• zed-astro-starter — an opinionated Astro starter with ZUI, ready to deploy to Cloudflare Workers.
• My lab — experiments, little tools and things in progress: a drawing app, a keyboard-only navigation demo, a data transformation dojo, a draggable 24-hour clock and more.
• A flurry of small tools and libraries:
  • react-status-bar — a portal-based status bar system for React
  • Spotify Favourites — find your actual favourite artists, no t just the biggest play counts
  • Lang Compare — programming language features side-by-side
  • Surround for Zed — a Zed extension written in Rust
  • npm packages like strifx, xtractr, url-merge and kit
  • my various Raycast extensions

Many of these were built while putting AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Amp) through their paces on real work — I wrote about that in Things I've been building recently while evaluating AI agents.

• The modern CSS hiding inside ZUI — automatic contrast text, a derived colour system, variants without bloat, popovers and more
• My zero-to-one stack — the stack I reach for to get side projects shipped fast
• Things I've been building recently while evaluating AI agents — ten side projects and what agentic coding tools taught me
• Using hunk as a diff viewer in lazygit — a nicer diff panel on macOS

• 🚀 Most recently I've been a Staff Software Engineer and web team lead at Dare, maintaining and evolving their energy trading platform and building a new component library.
• I've worked for a wide variety of startups, agencies and companies like Fathom, Utopia Music, Babylon Health, Digital Futures, Heights, Curve and FairFX amongst others.
• 💬 Ask me about design systems, AI-assisted development, or what I think of React
• 📫 How to reach me: email or Mastodon
• 😄 Pronouns: he/him/his
• ⚡ Fun fact: I used to be an assistant cameraman and worked on many TV shows, documentaries and one movie

• 🏌️‍♂️ Golf
• 🚵‍♂️ Mountain biking
• Making 🍕 Pizza & 🍖🔥 BBQ
• 🍿 Movies
• 🥁 Drumming
• 💖 Salted Caramel