Hi, I'm Eli. I'm a staff software developer at Nearform working remotely from Vancouver, BC.
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of British Columbia, as well as a certificate in software development from CodeCore.
Eli Zibin
Writing/OSS/Experiments:
- (24/02/2026)
A walkthrough of Hapax: an offline-first personal dictionary app.
- (04/03/2026)
A system that converts text into emoji-only lines.
- (04/03/2026)
Translating a novella from Spanish to English
Introducing react-native-peekie: a Peek and Pop React Native library for iOS.
- (05/03/2026)
A small Next.js app that finds valid NYT Spelling Bee pangrams from seven letters and a required center letter.
Turning a tedious iOS release routine into a minimal, deterministic CLI flow for TestFlight, without using Fastlane, EAS, or Xcode.
- (16/02/2026)
Agents as While Loops: using a tiny terminal REPL to build a simple tool-calling agent.
A tiny local-only macOS menu bar app to keep Codex session and weekly usage visible at a glance.
Helping out with chart feature work and OSS maintenance in Victory Native XL.