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
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.
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.
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.
The modern CSS hiding inside ZUI
A tour of the newer CSS features powering my UI library, from automatic contrast text and a derived colour system to variants without bloat and popovers with no JavaScript.
My zero-to-one stack
The tech stack I use to ship new side projects quickly, why I moved away from Supabase, and how a starter template changed how I build.
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
🔢 Basic Maths Notation 🔀 Reshaping data in JavaScript Supabase 🧮 CSS Functions 🎨 CSS Native Element Theming
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