[about.ray]

Hi, I'm Ray. Developer tools engineer in NYC, building since 2013. CLIs and build tooling. Most of my projects started as a bug somewhere upstream or a task I found myself doing 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 how I'm set up.

63 PRs merged across 12 repos · 36 to expo · 70 patches · 11 npm packages

[merged.upstream]

63 PRs merged into projects I don't maintain.

• expo/expo · 36 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
  • silence the Xcode every-build warning on the EXUpdates podspec #47622
  • drop the deep import warning baked into the LogBox web bundle #47772
  • stop workspace:* shipping in the published canary tarballs for scoped packages #45403
  • PersistentFileLog read-race fix that flaked expo-updates CI #43958
  • 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
  • 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
  • font({ textStyle }) so text scales with Dynamic Type, all 11 styles #46007
  • dynamicTypeSize modifier to clamp how far text grows #46540
  • 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
• 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
• react/react-native · 3 PRs
  • silence the Xcode clean-build warning on the hermes-engine podspec #56912
  • 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
• 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
• 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]

• convex-revenuecat · TypeScript · Convex

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

  21,500+ total downloads · Convex Components Directory

• vexpo · Expo SDK 57 · 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.

  7,200+ total downloads · @ramonclaudio/vexpo + create-vexpo on npm

• 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.

  1,300 total downloads across tanstack-cn and create-tanstack-cn

• 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.

• ccbase · TypeScript · Bun · SQLite

  Local log indexer. Parses Claude Code's session directory into SQLite with full-text search across every project, plus a dashboard over the result.

  SQLite full-text search · stays local

• seetree · Zig · CLI · TUI

  Terminal tree viewer written in Zig. Tails Claude Code's JSONL session logs and lights up files as they get read, written, edited, or deleted. ~200K binary, on Homebrew and npm.

  ~200K binary · Homebrew + npm

• gitbar · Tauri · Rust · TypeScript · React

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

  ~5MB binary

• 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.

[stack]

• Desktop + CLI. Bun for CLIs, compiled to single-file binaries when shipping. Tauri for menubar apps (gitbar).
• 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.
• Backend. Convex for everything. Better Auth via @convex-dev/better-auth. Resend via @convex-dev/resend. RevenueCat via my own convex-revenuecat component.
• Web. TanStack Start + Vite 8 + Base UI + shadcn + Bun + oxlint/oxfmt for new work. Next 16 for marketing surfaces. Astro for this one.
• Local tooling. Nine Claude Code plugins in skills. Session handoff between agents in handoff. SQLite index over ~/.claude/ in ccbase. seetree is Zig, no external deps, ~200K binary.

[recent.writing]

• Building seetree: A 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.