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Hi! I'm Javier

Mexicano living in Berlin, Germany. Software Engineer at Vercel.

I enjoy creating frontend experiments, design tools and small games.

Code [GitHub]

Sombras.app

Create art with shadows. Play with shadows, lights, 3D objects.

Astroboi

Rhythm game. Hop through the walls at the rythm of the music. Made with three.js

control-user-cursor

Small experiment to 'control' the user cursor with JavaScript and CSS.

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pintr

Create single line illustrations from your pictures. Get a drawing, SVG or coordinates for a CNC.

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emoji-to-scale

Your favorite emojis. To real-life scale, more or less.

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clashjs

Javascript AI battle game. Play by creating a javascript function to command your battleship.

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gitpage-timemachine

Visualize the evolution of your website in a 3D time-machine fashion.

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brutalita

Brutalita is an experimental font and font editor, edit in your browser and download OTF.

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docs2epub

Doc scraper and ebook generator / library. [unmaintained]

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Tools and components

img2css

Convert any image to pure CSS. Recreates images using only box-shadows.

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visual-center

Tool to better align logos in the center of a container.

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cohesive-colors

Tool that help you to create more cohesive color schemes. Add a tint to your existing colors.

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react-blur

React component to blur image backgrounds using canvas.

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react-number-easing

React component to interpolate rendering of numbers in the frontend.

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morphin

Create pixel art interpolations from your own sprites and embed them in your website with only CSS.

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droste-creator

Create recursive images with the droste effect.

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triangulator

Delaunay triangulation image generator.

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react-textgradient

Text gradients with CSS with SVG fallback. [unmaintained]

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Photography
[Photos Timelapses Portraits]

More about me

I love to play rapid Chess (10 minutes) games online, my Lichess username is borquez, currently I have a 1638 rapid ELO on Lichess.

I find competitive programming fun, I sometimes participate in CodeForces, my current rating is 1298.

From the blog

2022.02.25

• Turn a Kindle into a picture frame without jailbreak

2022.02.13

• Making better timelapses with Lightroom and JavaScript

2022.02.04

• Experimenting with CSS "Point Clouds"

2022.01.25

• Making "Brutalita" and learning things about making fonts

Write me to web@javier.xyz

Gracias por visitar! 😄