Hi! I'm Javier

Mexicano living in Berlin, Germany. Software Engineer at Vercel.
I enjoy creating frontend experiments, design tools and small games.

I like to 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

1064
Small experiment to 'control' the user cursor with JavaScript and CSS.

pintr

696
Create single line SVG illustrations from your pictures

emoji-to-scale

335
Your favorite emojis. To scale.

clashjs

228
Javascript AI battle game. Create your own battleship.

gitpage-timemachine

159
Visualize your website history in a time-machine fashion.

brutalita

147
Brutalita is an experimental font and font editor, edit in your browser and download OTF.

docs2epub

233
Doc scraper and ebook generator / library. [unmaintained]

I like to make design tools.

img2css

2434
Convert any image to pure CSS. Recreates images using only box-shadows.

visual-center

1389
Tool to better align logos in the center of a container.

cohesive-colors

513
Tool that may help you to create cohesive color schemes.

react-blur

441
React component to blur image backgrounds using canvas.

react-number-easing

148
React component for fancy number transitions.

morphin

81
Create animated CSS transitions. Add sprites and get the code ready to paste in your site.

droste-creator

28
Create recursive images with the droste effect.

triangulator

16
Delaunay triangulation image generator.

react-textgradient

121
Text gradients with CSS with SVG fallback. [unmaintained]

I like to take pictures.
PhotosTimelapsesPortraits

More about me.

I love to play rapid Chess (10 minutes) games online, my Lichess username is borquez, currently I have a 1679 rapid ELO on Lichess.
I find competitive programming fun, I sometimes participate in CodeForces. Track my progress here, my current rating is 1298.
Run! I enjoy running. I do mostly 5km to 15km runs, and I have ran 805km in 2021. My goal for 2022 is 1200km 🏃
My favorite books are The Little Prince, Flowers for Algernon, and probably The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I'm currently reading Peopleware.

From the blog.

I'm working on improving my writing and sometimes it is fun to share my process of making things.
Javier Bórquez
Write me to [email protected]
Gracias por visitar! 😄
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