[about.ray]

Hi, I'm Ray. Developer tools engineer in NYC, solo since 2013. CLIs, scaffolders, a Zig tree viewer for Claude Code, a Tauri menubar GitHub dashboard. Most of my projects started as a bug somewhere upstream or a task I found myself doing way too often. When I hit a bug I try to find the cause at the source, file the PR, and keep a patch around so my projects don't wait on review. More on what I'm shipping now and how I'm set up. Also drink way too much coffee. Sey beans, V60, 1Zpresso ZP6, full nerd mode (I go deeper here).

60 PRs merged across 12 repos · 34 to expo · 70 patches · 10 npm packages

[merged.upstream]

60 PRs merged into projects I don't maintain.

• expo/expo · 34 PRs
  • make docs data generation fail loudly instead of shipping empty files #47691
  • print the real xcodebuild error when expo run:ios fails, instead of a truncated log #47748
  • fix the expo-dev-menu macOS build against react-native-macos's older RCTDevMenu surface #47693
  • guard a dev-only React Native call so expo-dev-launcher compiles in Release again #47688
  • fix two dead docs mapping entries and report every failure, not just the first #47670
  • regenerate 32 stale docs API data files so local docs stop showing old content #47663
  • add testID and accessibilityLabel to NativeTabs.Trigger so tests can find tabs and screen readers can read them #47472
  • strokeBorder modifier so a border can be dashed and follow the shape #47426
  • accessibilityAddTraits and accessibilityRemoveTraits so VoiceOver announces the right role #47387
  • redaction modifiers for skeleton loading and privacy-sensitive views #47269
  • Image was dropping font, dynamicTypeSize, and resizable, so SF Symbols never scaled #46714
  • Host modifiers did nothing on iOS, one missing Swift field #45872
  • scrollPosition and id so JS can read and set where a ScrollView sits #44652
  • stop workspace:* shipping in the published canary tarballs for scoped packages #45403
  • font({ textStyle }) so text scales with Dynamic Type, all 11 styles #46007
  • dynamicTypeSize modifier to clamp how far text grows #46540
  • PersistentFileLog read-race fix that flaked expo-updates CI #43958
  • scrollTargetBehavior and scrollTargetLayout for snap paging #43955
  • font was losing scaling and weight on nested <Text> runs #46509
  • textContentType so text fields work with iOS keychain autofill #44548
  • SwiftUI Alert component for @expo/ui #45700
  • defaultScrollAnchor so chat UIs drop the scaleEffect(y: -1) flip #43914
  • defaultScrollAnchorForRole for per-role scroll anchors #43923
  • imageScale so SF Symbols size relative to the text around them #46774
  • accessibilityInputLabels to set the phrases Voice Control listens for #46661
  • clipShape and mask drew a rectangle for every shape but circle and rounded #43158
  • textInputAutocapitalization without forcing an ASCII keyboard #44547
  • accessibilityIdentifier so XCUITest can find a view #46556
  • accessibilityHidden to hide decorative views from VoiceOver #46579
  • accessibilityElement to group a subtree into one VoiceOver stop #47156
  • per-axis scaleEffect accepting { x, y } #43228
  • make five auto-firing scheduled workflows fork-safe #45782
  • gate 15 more workflows on the upstream repo, finishing the fork-safety sweep #46050
  • skip 13 secret-gated workflows on forks #45859
• get-convex/better-auth · 5 PRs
  • migrate to better-auth 1.6, five runtime breaks fixed in one rebase #323
  • four bugs leaving stale auth state after a session expires #218
  • dedup concurrent fetchAccessToken calls with a ref #267
  • widen the better-auth peer dep to cover the whole 1.4.x line #245
  • drop the dead react-dom peer dep #278
• shadcn-ui/ui · 5 PRs
  • official TanStack Start dark mode guide, replacing three stale PRs #10396
  • strip the raw <ComponentsList> tag from copy-to-markdown output #9484
  • notFoundComponent on the Start templates to silence the Router warning #10369
  • fix llms.txt 404s and backfill missing routes #10337
  • register the @ramonclaudio-coderabbit registry in the official directory #9331
• better-auth/better-auth · 3 PRs
  • noop ./instrumentation export so Convex's V8 isolate stops crashing #9281
  • fire $sessionSignal after session-rotating endpoints #9087
  • fix operationId on the password reset callback endpoint #9072
• facebook/hermes · 3 PRs
  • cherry-pick the class-in-finally fix so a class in a finally block stops miscompiling #2046
  • cherry-pick the accessor fix so super.x in a getter or setter stops crashing hermesc #2045
  • fix the armv7 CI job for forks not named hermes #2047
• fuma-nama/fumadocs · 2 PRs
  • fix the TanStack Start template, four config and hydration issues at once #2092
  • prettier fix that unblocked the create-fumadocs-app release #2095
• withastro/compiler-rs · 2 PRs
  • switch linux-gnu builds to --use-napi-cross, dropping the glibc floor to 2.17 #25
  • first glibc compat attempt, superseded by #25 #22
• react/react-native · 2 PRs
  • declare a dev-only React Native API unconditionally so it stops vanishing in Release #57517
  • add a missing include so the TurboModule ArrayBuffer test compiles again #57518
• TanStack/db · 1 PR
  • fix the stale example todo app link in the README #17
• oven-sh/bun · 1 PR
  • typed decompress option for fetch, no more @ts-ignore #21855
• rorkai/App-Store-Connect-CLI · 1 PR
  • Mac App Store screenshot support for the asc CLI #784
• napi-rs/napi-rs · 1 PR
  • respect --cross-compile when host matches target, fixing glibc breaks on Vercel and Lambda #3189

[shipped]

• seetree · Zig · CLI · TUI

  Live tree viewer for Claude Code, written in Zig. Lights up files as Claude reads, writes, edits, or deletes them. ~200K binary, on Homebrew and npm.

  ~200K binary · 319 total downloads

• ccbase · TypeScript · Bun · SQLite

  Local analytics dashboard, productivity tracker, conversation viewer, and searchable session history for Claude Code.

  282 total downloads

• gitbar · Tauri · Rust · TypeScript · React

  Menubar GitHub dashboard built with Tauri. PRs, issues, repos, and activity in one window.

  ~5MB binary

• convex-revenuecat · TypeScript · Convex

  Convex component that mirrors RevenueCat subscription state. Webhook and REST sync with lifecycle hooks for entitlement transitions.

  12,561 total downloads · Convex Components Directory

• tanvex · TanStack Start · Convex · Better Auth

  tanstack-cn extended with Better Auth and Convex, running on latest majors. My web dogfood, where I reproduce edge cases for TanStack, Convex, and Better Auth PRs. SSR auth, email OTP, rate limiting, one-command setup.

• vexpo · Expo SDK 56 · Convex · Better Auth · Resend

  Mobile sibling of tanvex. iOS starter wiring Expo, Convex, Better Auth, and Resend. Email + password, OTP, Apple Sign In, push notifications, universal links, profile uploads, full-text search, OTA updates, EAS submit and workflows. create-vexpo scaffolds it, then the vexpo CLI provisions Convex, Apple, EAS, and Resend, so you go from new project to TestFlight in one afternoon. My mobile dogfood, where I hit the Expo, React Native, and Hermes edge cases I file upstream.

  5,773 total downloads · @ramonclaudio/vexpo + create-vexpo on npm

• counter · Expo · Convex · ElevenLabs · Firecrawl

  My ElevenHacks Season 1 submission. Voice AI with three modes: research products, live negotiation coaching, and practice against an AI salesman. ElevenLabs agents plus Firecrawl search.

• dreamseeker · Expo · Convex · RevenueCat

  My RevenueCat Shipyard 2026 submission. Goal-achievement app: break goals into daily micro-actions, track with streaks and XP, share progress to a community feed.

• tanstack-cn · TanStack Start · Vite 8 · Tailwind v4

  CLI scaffolder (bun create tanstack-cn my-app) and shared runtime package, same shape as shadcn's. Vite 8 Rolldown+Oxc, Tailwind v4 and shadcn/ui base-luma on Base UI, Oxlint+Oxfmt instead of Radix, ESLint, and Prettier.

  1,249 total downloads across tanstack-cn and create-tanstack-cn

[stack]

• Mobile. React Native apps on Expo, canary. @expo/ui + expo-glass-effect, native-first (no NativeWind). Convex, Better Auth, RevenueCat underneath. Six apps on the same skeleton.
• Web. TanStack Start + Vite 8 + Base UI + shadcn + Bun + oxlint/oxfmt for new work. Next 16 for marketing surfaces. Astro for this one.
• Backend. Convex for everything. Better Auth via @convex-dev/better-auth. Resend via @convex-dev/resend. RevenueCat via my own convex-revenuecat component.
• Desktop + CLI. Tauri + Rust for menubar apps (gitbar). Bun everywhere else, compiled to single-file binaries when shipping.
• Claude Code infra. Nine plugins in skills. Session handoff in handoff. SQLite dashboard over ~/.claude/ in ccbase. Zig 0.16 at std_options level in seetree.

[recent.writing]

• Building seetree: A tiny terminal tree viewer and Claude Code companion written in Zig

  1 May, 2026

  A live tree for Claude Code in Zig. Lights up files as they're read, written, edited, or deleted.

• Dark Mode in TanStack Start with shadcn (and the PR)

  Updated: 21 Apr, 2026

  shadcn documents dark mode for Next.js, Vite, Remix, and Astro. TanStack Start was missing. I opened a PR. It merged.

• Building convex-revenuecat: Server-Side Entitlements for Convex

  2 Apr, 2026

  I needed server-side entitlement checks in my Convex app. No component existed. So I built one.

• Building Gitbar: A Menubar GitHub Dashboard

  29 Jan, 2026

  I got tired of opening 4 GitHub tabs to answer one question. So I built a menubar app that answers it in one glance.

• Hello, World!

  23 Jul, 2025

  Hello, I'm Ray.