Hi there, I'm Alex!
I'm a hacker / founder / musician living in San Francisco. Previously at Stripe, now starting something new.
Get in touch on Twitter @alexkehayias.
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Subsistence and Prioritization
Mistakes we make when prioritizing work
Bruce Springsteen and growing up non-white in the suburbs
Why listening to Born In the U.S.A. is the perfect parable for my experience growing up non-white in the suburbs.
Finding startup ideas with Zettelkasten
How I organized my observations and ideas using Zettelkasten to start a company.
What I learned during the most awful year and why I'm so optimistic for 2021.
Noteland - Note blogging platform
A radically simple way to start a note blog, zettelkasten, or digital garden.
Zettelkasten, Emacs, and Creative Thinking
An in-depth description of a Zettelkasten note taking practice that helps me improve clarity of thinking and creativity.
An experimental deck builder game
Self-servicification of internal teams
Common pitfalls of interal services teams moving to a self-serve model and what to do about it.
Introspection on improving product problem solving skills
My personal collection of notes organized in the Zettelkasten method
Episodic - procedural narrative generator
Creates a cohesive narrative comprised of story elements for multiple agents
Lessons and learnings from 2019.
Everything I've learned about building and running remote engineering teams
Progressive WebAssembly Applications @ WebAssembly SF
A look at progressive WebAssembly applications (PWAA) using Rust
Retrospective of a fun side-project that never really launched
Fane - simulator written in Rust
Fane is a toy simulator written in Rust. So far it doesn't do much!
How I learned to code in nine years
How I learned to code and found myself in the tech over the course of nine years
Woz - Progressive WebAssembly Application generator for Rust
Build and deploy a Rust progressive WebAssembly app from the command line
Personal Site - alexkehayias.com
My personal website (this website!).
Lessons and learnings from 2018.
An implementation of the Graphplan algorithm in Rust.
News and video of the Teenage Engineering OP-Z sequencer and synthesizer.
Rust safety checker cargo-rust
Safety checks for Rust projects that finds all uses of unsafe code in dependencies.
Grammarling - EBNF in the browser
Interactive EBNF grammar editor that renders to HTML and styled with CSS
Functional game engine design for the web @ Clojure West
Designing a game engine for the web using functional programming
The programmable project platform for productive teams with deadlines.
Live state inspector for running ClojureScript Reagent apps.
Chocolatier - functional game engine for the web
A functional game engine for sprite-based 2D games in the browser written in ClojureScript