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 rad

🥩 📺 🧑‍🍳 💆‍♂️ 🌞
  • Decided to take a few weeks off of journaling during my funemployment. I spent a lot of time with family, seeing parts of NYC I hadn’t seen and cooking. I’m very relaxed and excited for…
  • I start my new job tomorrow! I’ll give it a few weeks before I name a name/title, but it’s very much diving into the deep end on something super promising.
  • It’s a new year! My goals are to take 3 months of no drinking, grinding this new job and going to the gym 3x a week. Rachel and I are gonna worksheet more goals on Friday.

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: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 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 Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original by Howard Bryant Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis by Sam Anderson

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

Dark Times by Vince Staples [22 scrobbles] Big Fish Theory by Vince Staples [14 scrobbles] The Complete Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis [13 scrobbles] Total Life Forever by Foals [11 scrobbles] Lost in the Dream by The War on Drugs [11 scrobbles] Slave Ambient by The War on Drugs [11 scrobbles] L'Amour by Lewis Baloue [10 scrobbles] bury me at makeout creek by Mitski [10 scrobbles] Harmony by Three Dog Night [10 scrobbles]