Hi there, I'm Alex!

I'm a hacker // founder // musician living in San Francisco. I build tools that help entrepreneurs join the internet economy at Stripe.

Get in touch on Twitter @alexkehayias.

Latest

• What I Learned - 2020
  What I learned in the most awful year and why I'm 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.
• Tunnelcast
  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.
• Problem solving
  Introspecting on improving my product problem solving skills
• Zettelkasten notes
  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
• What I Learned - 2019
  Lessons and learnings from 2019.
• From org-mode back to pen and paper
  Going back to pen and paper for notes and todo lists
• Building Remote Teams
  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
• Shutting down Workbeam
  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!).
• What I Learned - 2018
  Lessons and learnings from 2018.
• Graphplan in Rust
  An implementation of the Graphplan algorithm in Rust.
• OPZed
  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.
• AI Planning in Python - Python SF
  An overview of STRIPS style planning in Python via GraphPlan
• 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
• Workbeam.io
  The programmable project platform for productive teams with deadlines.
• Praline
  Live state inspector for running ClojureScript Reagent apps.
• From zero to one IRL - Int'l Week
  A talk for International Week site visitors about starting a company
• Functional Game Engine Design - Lisp NYC
  Exploring functional programming as applied to game engines and Lisp
• Using Storm with Clojure - Clojure NYC
  Experience report of building data pipelines with Storm and Clojure
• Chocolatier: a ClojureScript game engine - ClojureScript NYC
  An overview of an experimental game engine written in Clojure
• Chocolatier - functional game engine for the web
  A functional game engine for sprite-based 2D games in the browser written in ClojureScript