i'm david

or how taste outpaces ability—and how writing helps me grow into the person I want to be

Or how fixing what’s broken—whether it’s stuff or relationships—makes life richer and more real.

Or why choosing to trust—while staying open to evidence—can make life lighter, and relationships more genuine.

Or how I spent a whole day of slow debugging due to an error I introduced by trying to “prove my worth”.

Detecting when react-typical animations finish to keep track of the last typed value.

Or how lazyness to write commands made me create a single command for every project, independently of the framework.

A brief rant.

Or why embracing —and reasoning about your own— ignorance is important to eventually tame some of it.

Or how I went from a plain simple unstyled web page into a static content generator focused on generative art.

Or why I needed to forget what I knew about efficency in programming to let myself rely on language optimizations.

Or how to represent stations, lines, intersections, and whole networks for easy operations on them.

Or how to manage your own version of submodules in your project. This is highly incorrect, I just didn’t know what submodules were. Leaving it just for posterity.

Or why I really, really, really like this image hope this is the last time I reboot my website.

Website to learn and practice regular expressions interactively.

Selecting values that define Clifford and De Jong attractors can be a slow task. This tool automates that process.

Beautiful and interactive data visualization for last.fm users. Built with React and D3.js.

A brief description of generative systems, code examples, and general tips to improve and become prolific in any art.