Hi, I'm Miguel 👋

📍 Minnesota, US | 🚧 Public Infrastructure Professional | 🧑🏻‍💻 Self-taught hobby developer

Self-taught hobby developer with too many ideas and not enough time.

I love coding, collaborating, and solving problems. When I'm not working, you'll find me learning new programming languages or experimenting with web development.

🌐 MiguelPimentel.do | 💖 database.omg.lol | 🌿 ForgetfulNotes.com

Current Projects

• ℹ️ Influx - Transform Obsidian backlinks into excerpts (maintainer)
• 🍅 PomoBar - Minimalist Pomodoro timer that lives in your Obsidian status bar
• 🎵 Crucial Tracks Now - JavaScript widget to display your latest Crucial Tracks on your website
• 🎵 Libre.fm Now - JavaScript widget to display your latest Libre.fm scrobbles on your website
• 📝 NoteKeeper - Firefox extension that transforms the New Tab into a minimalist, auto-saving text editor
• 🔖 New Tab Bookmarks - New tab replacement for your browser focused on your bookmarks bar
• 🔮 Obsidian Starter - Opinionated, pre-configured Obsidian starter vault
• 📊 StatBar - Minimalist Obsidian status bar note stats
• 🦎 Mabuya - Lightweight Zola theme for creating fast, SEO-optimized blogs
• 📚 Zola Minimal - Zola port of the Jekyll theme with the same name
• 🗒️ PastePad - VS Code extension to manage your paste.lol pastebin

Archived Projects

• 🚦 Traffic Studies - Comprehensive traffic analysis dashboard for Crystal, Minnesota
• 💦 Adopt-a-Drain - Dashboard for the Adopt-a-Drain program in Crystal, Minnesota

Latest Blog Posts

• The Adopt-a-Drain Dashboard
• Adding Snow, Keeping Warm: Using <is-land> Responsibly
• Solving Blinking View Transitions (Featured on Piccalilli)
• When Gratitude Rings
• VS Code Regex: Conditional Find and Replace
• When Being Wrong Goes Right
• My Actual Problem-Solving Rituals
• PomoBar for Obsidian
• Building in Silence
• 10 Fun Facts About the Dominican Republic

📌 Pinned

• Why are my view transitions blinking?
• Being a Firefighter Does Not Save You From Burnout

GitHub Stats

🛠️ Technologies

🎵 Music Vibes

What I'm Doing

• 📢 Building in public - Sharing my learning journey through blog posts and tutorials
• 🌐 Experimenting with modern web tech - Always trying new frameworks and tools
• 👥 Contributing to open source - When I find projects that align with my interests
• 🎒 Learning continuously - Always exploring new programming languages and paradigms

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With 💜 from Minnesota.