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hi. i'm alex christie

i work on developer experience tooling and processes while leading teams to build performant, responsive, and speedy software and websites at limber health. i work across the stack, and love thinking project architecture, design systems, and component libraries. on the side i'm working on garden, which are a suite of tools for digital gardening and writing online.

recent writing

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January 2, 2025web apps vs. native apps

writing web apps and native apps in 2025, and going all in on the web

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December 31, 2024type safe useReducer for react context

creating a better typed `useReducer` for react context

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open source and previous work

nextjs / mdx

garden

🌱 a place to think about digital gardening

theme-ui / react

if-sf

🔮 generate themes, theme objects, and theme tokens

nextjs / mdx

next-mdx-relations

🌿 a set of utilities for generating and creating relations between pages in nextjs using md/x