About me:

Hey, I'm Dana. I'm Senior UX Engineer.

Technical skills:

Frontend: Next.js, React, TypeScript, JavaScript

UI Libraries: Tailwind CSS

Backend: Node.js, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Edge Functions, Python

Auth: Supabase Auth (magic links, RLS, JWTs)

AI: OpenAI API, Anthropic API, Vector Databases, Agents

State Management: Zustand, TanStack Query

Payments: Stripe

Validation: Zod

Deploy: Railway, Vercel, GitHub Actions

Design: Figma

Other: Git, GraphQL

OSS favorites:

• 🌐 Next.js – full-stack React framework that just works
• 🧙‍♂️ Supabase – open-source backend with excellent developer experience
• 🚂 Railway – quick deploys without the DevOps headaches
• ▲ Vercel – seamless Next.js deployments and edge functions
• 🎨 Tailwind CSS – utility-first styling that makes sense
• 📦 TanStack Query – data fetching that handles the messy bits
• 🔍 Zod – runtime validation that catches issues early

🧪 Testing Remix for its loader-based fetch model and routing. Might beat Next.js for the kind of micro-apps I'm building.

📚 Recommended reading

• 🎨 Design

  • Build Better Products by Laura Klein — clear, blunt, and useful
  • The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman — old but still makes you think
  • Articulating Design Decisions by Tom Greever — for when you're explaining ideas that feel obvious to you

• 👩🏻‍💻 Engineering

  • The Software Engineer's Guidebook by Gergely Orosz — solid career and team advice
  • The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau — if you're trying to get actual stuff done
  • Clean Code by Robert C. Martin — old-school but useful for long-term sanity

• 💅 UI & UX

  • Practical UI by Adham Dannaway — short and straight to the point
  • Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug — title says it all
  • Laws of UX by Jon Yablonski — just good to skim through once in a while
  • Refactoring UI by Tailwind Labs — not just about UI, it's mindset-shifting for frontend devs

• 🏗️ Product & Systems

  • Design That Scales by Dan Mall — actually gets into the reality of design systems
  • Frontend Architecture for Design Systems by Micah Godbolt — especially if you like planning
  • Design for How People Think by John Whalen — useful if you're building tools people rely on

• 👩‍🚀 Other

  • Severance (TV series) — strange, stylish, really sticks with you
  • From (TV series) — weird, stressful, addictive