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 2026 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

🥩 📺 🧹 🥡 🌞
  • It was a home improvement day! I rented a UHaul to cycle the winter stuff out and summer stuff from our storage unit. We were able to move everything without fighting. I even got our old, very reliable, super Jorge to come and reinstall the ACs, mount a shelf and, most importantly, mounting a shower curtain rod on our marble/cement bathroom.
  • After the moving, we had time with the UHaul to run to the garden center. We got some flowers, purple basil and red peppers for our garden, as well as a bunch of soil. Did a little gardening after cleaning.
  • Our apartment is dusty and we need to fix that asap. Can’t have the baby coming home to filth.
  • My favorite memory of the day was taking the UHaul to an Italian sandwich spot a mile from us and getting sandwiches. We ate them off the side of the UHaul and it was very Rob coded. I got a sandwich that was just toasted raviolis, mozzarella and vodka sauce.

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

⏱ 14  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.

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

Kicking Television, Live in Chicago by Wilco [24 scrobbles] All My Heroes Are Cornballs by JPEGMAFIA [18 scrobbles] Innocent Country 2 by Quelle Chris [18 scrobbles] October Song by Lightning Bug [13 scrobbles] Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, And Start Gettin Reel by Hype Williams [12 scrobbles] Kissing Luck Goodbye by ADULT. [9 scrobbles] Frog for Sale by Frog [7 scrobbles] I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away by Hayden Pedigo [7 scrobbles]