Francis Castillo Cruz (@ingfranciscastillo)

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Snippets

projectsts

type Project = {
  name: string;
  status: "building" | "shipped";
  stack: string[];
};

const projects: Project[] = [
  {
    name: "Vitalgate",
    status: "building",
    stack: ["TypeScript", "Vite", "TanStack"],
  },
  {
    name: "Palabreo",
    status: "shipped",
    stack: ["React", "TypeScript"],
  },
];

export const currentlyBuilding = projects.filter(
  (project) => project.status === "building",
);

Projects

Plaqo

Shipped

A developer profile in one link: GitHub activity, articles and projects, synced automatically.

TanStack RouterTanStack Start

Eliza Terminal

Shipped

A modern implementation of the legendary ELIZA chatbot with a CRT terminal interface from the 80s.

TypeScriptTanStack StartBetter AuthTanStack Router

Writing

Terminal Portfolio — A developer portfolio that works like a command line

Behance · Apr 26, 2026

GitHub

@ingfranciscastillo · 11 followers

2,333 contributions / last year

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devlinks

TypeScript

Developer identity, in one address.

trace

TypeScript

Follow information back to where it began.

vitta

TypeScript

La forma más simple de seguir tu progreso físico completo: peso, hábitos y medidas, todo en un solo lugar.

world-seed

TypeScript

World Seed Generator — procedural fictional world generator interface.

tiny

TypeScript

Small tools, zero ceremony.

vitalgate

TypeScript

Performance budgets for every pull request.

Dev.to@sylwia-lask

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10712 min

Every Software Developer Has Blamed…

1564 min

The Accidental Blogger: How I Ended Up on DEV

1988 min

What If Your AI Agent Never Had to Leave the Browser? (Demo 🚀)

1878 min

AI Is Already Better at Coding Than Most Software Developers

2485 min

What’s the Fastest React Data Grid? Let’s Find Out (Benchmarks)

507 min

Medium

Medium’s State of Writing Report 2026: A private writing revival

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How (and when) does your writing show up inside AI chatbots?

How something you publish on the internet ends up in an AI tool, why retrieval is important to understand, and what your options are.Images by Jason Combs & Emily Kelly // the Medium Brand teamFrom the moment ChatGPT

The simplest way to start donating blood regularly

It’s easier and less scary than you think, and more valuable than you can imagine. Here’s your “couch-to-save-3-lives” plan, using the GIVES framework.Photo by John Benitez on UnsplashState of the world got you down? Me,

Why writing still wins in the AI era

The four ages of the internet and the write-ward shiftImage: The Medium brand teamWhat is the sound of loving writing?It may sound strange to say it, but I know the answer. I’ve heard it, even.At Medium’s most recent com

Updates from Pub Crawl 2026

Award winners, highlights, updates, and announcementsMy favorite moment at any Medium virtual gathering is that time right at the beginning of the first webinar of the day, when the chat lights up with people from around