
FERNANDO SOBRAL
- Senior software engineer
About
I write React and TypeScript for a living. The rest of the time I build things with a much worse cost-benefit ratio.
I like software with a point of view. Most of what's here started as “would that even work” and stopped being interesting about ten minutes after it did.
- React
- TypeScript
- LangChain
- Node.js
- Express
Selected work
The five I'd actually show someone. The rest are in the archive.
All 25 projectsBlog
Longer posts about just about anything
All 11 postsThe Map Eats the Territory
On two works that stopped reaching for the original and signed the map instead.

Specifying Spring '84
A follow-up to my Spring '83 implementation: specifying a small successor protocol for expressive, self-certifying web boards.

E Unibus Infinitum
David Foster Wallace's E Unibus Pluram: was published in 1993, but is more relevant than ever today.

Automating fishing for fun and no profit
I decided to automate a fishing game because I wanted to automate something, it was fun





