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shimleabyte/README.md

Shimleabyte

Self-taught developer  ·  Web applications  ·  Practical tools

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PROFILE

I was drawn to programming by the ability to turn ideas into working systems. I want to understand how the parts interact—not just make a feature work, but know why the solution works and how its design affects the rest of the system.

I'm most interested in practical software: web applications, developer tools, and tools for managing information or workflows. I care about clear structure, maintainable code, and interfaces that solve the problem without adding complexity for its own sake.

As a self-taught developer, I build that understanding through independent projects, deliberate practice, and revisiting decisions when an implementation doesn't hold up. AI tools are useful when they help me explore or debug, but I still need to understand and validate the result.

SELECTED WORK

Mutabaah CLI
A local-first Go terminal app for activity tracking and short personal notes. The acts domain tracks session targets, progress, completion, and one-time deadlines. The independent notes domain stores notes of 1–5 logical lines and renders them as timestamped, framed journal cards, with wrapped display text and an edited marker. Its domain logic, command handling, and JSON storage are separated into focused files.
Go · Standard library · JSON persistence · CLI architecture · Validation · Automated testing

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Optical Anchor Button
An eye-first interactive button component built around a custom SVG iris, page-wide pointer tracking, and an awake-to-tired-to-sleep lifecycle. The project includes a React/TypeScript component baseline and a framework-free Vanilla JavaScript rebuild, with native button semantics, reduced-motion handling, and automated browser regression checks.
React · TypeScript · Vanilla JavaScript · CSS · SVG · Vite · Vitest · Playwright · Accessibility

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BUILD HISTORY

Independent development · 2024–present
Personal projects, web-building work, self-directed study, and personal productivity-tool experiments. My experience is project-based, and the focus is on learning to build software I can explain, debug, and maintain.

STACK

CORE
HTML CSS JavaScript

USED
React Next.js Go Git JSON REST APIs Responsive design

CURRENT STUDY

TypeScript
SQL & database design
Software testing
Data structures & algorithms
System design

WHAT I VALUE

Clear responsibilities.
Understandable code.
Deliberate trade-offs.
Interfaces that serve the task.

CONNECT

GitHub ↗
@shimleabyte

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