I'm Alistair. I work at Anthropic on Bun and Claude Code. I'm interested in things like language specifications and type systems. I've been called a TypeScript wizard at least a few times. It's nice to meet you.I try to write every now and then, often about stuff I've recently been working on. Hover your mouse here to see the list.
Ambient Declarations
Explaining ambient declarations with @types/bun as an example
Avoiding homework with code (and getting caught)
The eventful tale of me getting fed up with my homework
The 0kb Next.js blog
How I shipped a Next.js app with a 0kb bundle
Serverless Discord OAuth with Next.js
Implementing basic Discord OAuth on Vercel's serverless platform
A strict TSConfig
The strictest TypeScript configuration possible. "Look ma, no errors!"
Open source I've built or contributed to.
oven-sh/bun
ZigIncredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one
alii/azs
TypeScript🤓 Amplify Zod schemas with methods
alii/searchy
TypeScriptCloudflare + Google = supercharged web surfing
alii/linear-style
TypeScript🎨 An index for Linear themes
alii/use-lanyard
TypeScriptReact hook for Lanyard for tracking your Discord presence.
alii/use-last-fm
TypeScript🎸 React Hook to use realtime last.fm data and display your currently played song in your application.
kaito-http/kaito
TypeScript🌎 HTTP Framework for TypeScript
alii/poimandres-terminal
A collection of MacOS Terminal/iTerm/Windows Terminal color profiles inspired by the Poimandres VSCode themes
alii/discord-jsx
TypeScript💬 An experimental way to write Discord bots with JSX for Node.
alii/nextkit
TypeScriptZero dependency API Toolkit for Next.js. Generate type-safe, error handled Next.js API routes.
alii/permer
TypeScript🔑 A basic abstraction for handling flags using bitwise
alii/arc
Gleam⌒ JavaScript on the BEAM
alii/al
VA small, statically-typed, expression-oriented programming language.
alii/trisma
TypeScriptTrisma is Prisma but with TypeScript for data-modelling. It's experimental.
alii/typestr
TypeScriptZero runtime TypeScript string library
I'm currently in San Francisco, CA 📍