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.

pintr

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

emoji-to-scale

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

clashjs

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

gitpage-timemachine

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

brutalita

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

docs2epub

Doc scraper and ebook generator / library. [unmaintained]

Design Tools.

img2css

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

visual-center

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

cohesive-colors

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

react-blur

React component to blur image backgrounds using canvas.

react-number-easing

React component to interpolate rendering of numbers in the frontend.

morphin

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

droste-creator

Create recursive images with the droste effect.

triangulator

Delaunay triangulation image generator.

react-textgradient

Text gradients with CSS with SVG fallback. [unmaintained]

Photography.
PhotosTimelapsesPortraits

More about me.

I love to play rapid Chess (10 minutes) games online, my Lichess username is borquez, currently I have a 1627 rapid ELO on Lichess.
I find competitive programming fun, I sometimes participate in CodeForces, 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 web@javier.xyz
Gracias por visitar! 😄