Hi there, I'm Alex!
I'm a hacker / founder / musician living in New York City. Previously at Stripe, now building Mosey.
Get in touch on Twitter @alexkehayias or Bluesky @alexkehayias.com
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I moved to NYC, explored AI in earnest, and kept building.
Indexer - personal indexer for omni-search
Search my personal data consistently across devices.
World's Greatest Boss - Episode 174
Talking to Jackie Koch about compliance and entrepreneurship on her podcast.
Org AI - chat for org-mode notes
Chat with your notes in org-mode and org-roam.
The Stripe + Mosey Guide to Starting a Remote Company
How to start a remote-first company and save yourself a lot of time an money
Everything is changing all the time.
It gets worse, but then it gets better.
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