I'm a web developer with a background in Biblical Hebrew — which explains why my Github may seem a little strange to you.
I'll break it down a little more below but know that I love creating software, especially for the web that makes people's lives better.
I love working on the web. The whole stack is fun! From databases to servers to the frontend.
Some web things I'm proud of 🎉
- The docs for the transliteration library; all the docs are written as doc comments and Typescript types, and the build pipeline converts it to an Astro site using Starlight.
- A full stack, MVC app written from the ground up; I used some new tech like Drizzle and Hono and some old tech like Sqlite to build an MVC app from the ground up. It was a fun learning experience.
- This blog post on using the new CSS
:has()selector to create a modern hamburger menu.
My background is in historical linguistics, particularly Biblical Hebrew. I wrote a Master's thesis about two pronouns in Hebrew. This is why so many of my repo's are about Hebrew or some other ancient language.
Some Hebrew things I'm proud of 🎉
- The transliteration library. I've worked on this library as long as I've been coding. It's gone from a script tag to a fully typed, CJS and ESM compatible library.
- The syllabification library havarotjs which is a dependency of the transliteration library.
- A published paper on Phoenician.
What draws the two above together is my love of solving problems. Whether it is making a complex app or creating simple components, wherever there is a challenge, I want to solve it!