Hi, I'm Chris 👋

🛠️ Software Engineer | 🔧 Developer Tools | 🚀 Performance Obsessed

Building robust developer tools and exploring language architecture. I focus on simplicity, performance, and developer experience.

Current Projects

SaaS

• 🧈 Butterbase - Kitchen management platform for home bakers
• 💬 Disforum - Make Discord forums searchable on the web
• 🏠 Homelytics - Smart home analytics and insights

Developer Tools

• 🎙️ Pindrop - Native macOS menu bar dictation using local WhisperKit
• ⚡ Alyx - Portable, polyglot Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) in Go
• 🎨 goshot - Create beautiful code screenshots with customizable styles
• 🎯 cursor-linux-installer - Installing Cursor on Linux, done right
• 🚀 0x45 - High-performance file sharing & URL shortening with S3 support
• 🔒 fbmdob - Facebook image Metadata Obfuscation server
• 🕷️ arachnid - Powerful web scraping framework for Crystal
• 🤖 n8n-nodes-perplexity - Perplexity AI integration for n8n

What I'm Doing

• Building SaaS - Shipping tools that solve real problems (Butterbase, Disforum, Homelytics)
• Exploring languages - Deep dives into Go, TypeScript, Python, Swift, and Crystal
• Developer experience - Crafting CLI tools and utilities that feel right
• Language architecture - Thinking about how languages work and how they could work better

Writing

I write about building things at watzon.tech/blog

GitHub Activity

Connect

💬 Simplicity. Performance. Developer Experience.