Aloha, I'm Lani
My name is Lani Akita, and I'm a Full Stack Developer, writer and ex-Biologist from Hawai'i. My specialty is in overcoming challenges, setbacks, and unsupported use cases. I'm also pretty passionate about modern web development.
Naturally, I'm obsessed with the never ending cascade of new shiny tools and technologies that enables us to redefine what a website can be. Technologies that push beyond the limits of what ought to be possible to run from a web browser, like WebGPU (a huge leap forward from WebGL), or WebAssembly (a technology that brings high-performance, low-level languages to the browser).
Hint: You can subscribe to my blog's web feed to follow along as I dive into my current technological obsession.
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main_programming_langs: ["TypeScript", "Rust", "Python"],
main_frameworks: ["Next.js", "SvelteKit"],
main_ui_libraries: ["React", "Svelte"],
main_frontend_tools: ["tailwindcss", "Three.js"],
main_backend_tools: ["Bun", "Node.js", "Drizzle ORM", "Postgres", "SQLite"],
professional_interests: ["Accessibility", "Scalability", "Reproducibility", "IaC", "WebAssembly", "WebGL", "WebGPU", "NixOS"],
main_devops_tools: ["SST", "Pulumi", "Podman", "Docker", "K8s"],
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degree: "BSc in Biological Sciences",
school: "University of California, Santa Barbara",
timeframe: { from: 2016, to: 2020 }
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Passion Projects
When I'm not working for someone else, I'm working for myself and the open-source community, sharpening my skillset on a healthy dose of ambitious side-projects. I love exploring the latest tools, learning their secrets, and discovering how (and where) these new technologies fit into my software engineering toolbelt.
Client Works
I used to be a freelance WordPress developer, now I'm a freelance Full Stack Developer. Below are some of the sites I've created for my Clients, that utilize my Full Stack skillset.
Latest from the Blog
When I get the chance, I like to indulge in writing words, instead of code. Though, I'll admit most of my published endeavors into the written word often contain quite a bit of code snippets anyways (it is a dev blog after all). You can find more articles like the below on my blog.