Eli Gundry

Glad To Meet You!

My name is Eli I only really write in lists, so here's my deal.

  • I am a 🧑‍💻 full stack web engineer.
  • I love to plan and 👨‍🍳 cook elaborate meals. It really activates the engineering part of my brain!
  • I have a 🤓 non-traditional computer science education. I attended a vocational school in high school, taught myself web programming, bounced around colleges for computer science while working the entire time before deciding to go pro!
  • I am a Vim Logo Vim user but I actively encourage everyone to use something else. Using Vim in 2024 is a cool bar trick.
  • I currently live in 📍 Astoria, Queens. I didn't think I would settle down in Queens and love it as much as I do, but life is like that sometimes.
  • I have a 😼 fat cat named Fonzie and I sorta have a tattoo of him on my arm.

How I'm Feeling

A while ago, I decided to start journaling my feelings. Being a software engineer, I made an API out of it and put it on my website. The favicon for the site the emoji for my latest entry.

I felt meh

🏚 🥩 🧑‍🍳 🍜 📚
  • Haven’t journaled in like a year and felt like time to come back.
  • It’s bad, but at least there is some finality in knowing that it’s bad that makes me feel more focused.
  • Updates from the year are like “marriage is a thing you have to garden” and “it’s time for new things, as the old things that gave me life don’t anymore”
  • New job has been fun but it’s been hard when it’s in a valley to care. I feel more annoyed at work, but it’s because I personally. care more than the last few spots. I think it’s because I feel I need it to work out.
  • I think I’m going to replace my Twitter consumption with reading books.

Do You Code?

My life is all about making web applications. I am the generalist you have in mind when you describe a “full stack engineer” and can and will do everything to get a feature successfully to production. Query running slow? Let me at it. Need a thoughtfully designed API? I can do that in my sleep. CSS needs some tweaking? As long as I don’t need to design it, I’ll make it look great.

Review my code on GitHub!

Are You A Blogger?

I'm certainly trying to be! I try to write four posts a year. Sometimes I exceed it, other times, I completely whiff. No pressure though. Below are some of my favorite posts.

1st Favorite

⏱ 12  Minutes

📝 By all means, make that money in crypto, but not all money is right.

2nd Favorite

⏱ 15  Minutes

📝 Let's quickly run through my life and see how ADHD has effected it.

What I'm Reading

I wish I read more, but there are only so many hours in the day. These are the books that I'm reading right now. You can find me on Goodreads.

Currently Reading: Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment by Jason Schreier Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral by Ben Smith Donny Hathaway Live by Emily J. Lordi I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again by Danny Licht If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore

What I'm Listening To

I listen to way too much music and I love to listen to full albums. I mainly listen to hip hop, indie rock and emo. I occasionally write reviews of old albums that I love but aren't well known in a series called ICYMI.

In order to listen to more new music, I created Album Mode.party, which recommends me albums that Spotify's algorithims would never dare show me. It's the first application I have built that I use daily!

Seasonal Playlist

On Repeat

Dope Game Stupid by Bruiser Wolf [31 scrobbles] Hi This Is Flume (Mixtape) by Flume [17 scrobbles] MM..FOOD (20th Anniversary Edition) by MF DOOM [17 scrobbles] EELS by Being Dead [16 scrobbles] The Comeback Kid by Marnie Stern [12 scrobbles] Melee by Dogleg [10 scrobbles] The Prettiest Curse by Hinds [10 scrobbles] The Battle of Los Angeles by Rage Against the Machine [10 scrobbles] Forever Now by The Psychedelic Furs [10 scrobbles]