Hi! I’m Zander
, I make web things
ZUI
A CSS-first UI library with design tokens, layered architecture, and optional React, Astro, Solid, Svelte & Vue components. No build step required.
➤ zui.zander.wtf
Otter
A self-hosted bookmark manager and media tracker built for people who value privacy and ownership.
➤ otter.zander.wtfAbout me
Product engineer with 18 years of experience, specialising in front-end and design systems - building products that work well for the people who use them.
Current
Dare
Staff Software Engineer and web team lead. I maintained and evolved Dare's core ETRM (Energy Trading and Risk Management) platform — a complex, data-intensive system — and built a new component library from the ground up, bringing visual and functional consistency across the product suite.
Previous
Fathom · Utopia Music · Babylon Health · Digital Futures · Heights · Curve · FairFX · Nimbletank · TMW Unlimited · Neverbland
For more details on my work experience, check out my CV →
Blog
Building site search with Astro and Cloudflare D1
Replacing Algolia on this very website with a self-owned, full-text search API built on Cloudflare D1 and SQLite FTS5, searchable from the site itself and from Raycast
text-wrap, overflow-wrap and word-break: which one do I actually want?
A practical guide to CSS's confusingly-similar text wrapping and breaking properties, and when to reach for each one
The ZUI ecosystem
The tooling that has grown up around my CSS-first UI library — framework components, a VS Code extension, a Raycast extension, and a publishable Astro docs theme.
The Otter ecosystem
One bookmarking app, many faces — a tour of the web app, browser extensions, iOS share extension, Raycast extension, terminal UI, and desktop experiment that make up Otter.
Zero: my project factory
How a single GitHub Actions workflow takes me from an idea on my phone to a scaffolded, deployed-ready project with a database, secrets, and Claude already building it.
Links
Hand-picked hyperlinks, all saved in my Otter bookmarking app
Hype Machine 
hypem.com Audio
#music
Hacker Trends – 18 years of Hacker News, charted 
hackernewstrends.com Link
#chart
#trends
#data
#analysis
#via:hacker-news
seshy — find and resume any past coding-agent session 
seshy.dev Link
#ai:agentic
putt.day 
putt.day Game
#golf
#inspiration
#mini-golf
#daily
Code Notes
TILs, snippets—my digital code garden