Dear Visitor,

I'm an Australian software engineer currently based in Vancouver, Canada. My passion is building software that enhances human connection and relationships.

The way software can create space for the user is fascinating. Software can empower people to think in new ways, facilitate self-discovery and explore the relationship between us and the world. I believe that software should aim to expand human awareness over profit maxing.

I currently spend my time building LetterDesk.app, a digital space that allows people to explore human experience together through letter writing and deep connection.

I'm writing for Boundless.Garden.

If you're building software that aims to make the world better, expand how people think, or offers a new perspective on the human experience and you would like to talk to me, please get in touch.

Regards,

Zaymon Antonio

Socials.

Follow me on Twitter, see my code on GitHub, check out what books I'm reading on Oku.Club or have a look at my collections on Are.Na.

Ongoing Projects.
LetterDesk

Jan 2021 to Present (3 years 9 months)

LetterDesk gives you the time and space to communicate your thoughts, feelings, stories and ideas with others without the pressure of instant messaging.

Clojure

Reitit

PostgreSQL

Malli

React

TypeScript

RxJs

XState

Zustand

StitchesJS

The Boundless Garden

Aug 2021 to Present (3 years 2 months)

Boundless Garden is a place for me to explore my life and mind through writing. It's a bespoke blog written from scratch in NextJS, featuring a custom MDX renderer, design system, bibliography system—inspired by bibTeX, 3D graphics, and more.

Typescript

NextJs

React

react-three-fibre

MDX

StitchesJS

Projects.
Iosevka

2023

An iOS implementation of the word game Lexica.

Swift

SwiftUI

Combine

ObservableStore

Tries

Research for Lex.Page

2023

Explored solutions for building unified diffs for rich text. Implemented a solution that given two versions of a prose-mirror document, generates a new diff-document, highlighting differences in text, formatting and markup.

React

TipTap

ProseMirror

Yjs

json-diff-patch

data structures and algorithms

Connect-4 Advanced 3D

2022

A 3D implementation of Connect-Four Advanced (4x4x4) playable in the browser implemented in react-three-fiber.

react

react-three-fiber

jotai

mac-os-key-repeat

2022

A simple tool to test Mac OS key-repeat settings without restarting your computer more than once.

NextJS

rxjs

StitchesJS

befunge-rust

2022

An interpreter for a significant subset of the esolang 'Befunge'.

Rust

Interpreters

Work.
DXOS

Mar 2024 to Present (7 months)

Software Engineer

Building a decentralized, real-time collaborative platform with peer-to-peer sync, offline-first capabilities, and extensible plugin architecture.

TypeScript

React

AutoMerge

Lit

The Library of Economic Possibility

Mar 2023 to Jul 2023 (4 months)

Freelance Software Engineer

Discover economic research for a better economy.

Svelte

SvelteKit

Typescript

DatoCMS

GraphQL

UtilityOn

Oct 2022 to May 2023 (7 months)

Senior Software Engineer

Quick and easy electricity connections for Texas home builders.

Prisma

NextJS

Typescript

PostgreSQL

Jotai

RxJs

Connect Develop

Nov 2018 to Feb 2022 (3 years 3 months)

Creating beautiful, human-friendly digital experiences that solve problems for businesses and consumers at the intersection of the property and energy sectors.

F#

.NET Core

ASP.NET Core

EventStore

TypeScript

React

Locatrix

Jan 2017 to Nov 2018 (1 year 9 months)

Student Software Developer

Created a suite of UI tests to look out for regressions and ensure correctness. Web API's and .NET web application code. Requirements analysis. Bug fixes and investigation. Technology research and comparison.

C#

TypeScript

React

Cypress E2E

Griffith University

Mar 2017 to Jul 2018 (1 year 4 months)

PASS Leader

Working as a PASS Leader (peer assisted study sessions) with classes up to 25 students for the courses Computer Systems and Networks and Data Management. Maintained high student retention rates throughout the semester.

Logisim

SQL

Computing Fundamentals

Error Detection

OSI Stack

Binary Representations

Gate Logic

This website is built with NextJS and Stitches.

The source code is public on GitHub.