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I like typesafety. I built and currently maintain Zod — a TypeScript schema validation library with advanced type inference. I also designed the first proof of concept of tRPC.

I got into open-source while trying to build a medical record software. The startup failed but the technical challenges I encountered have kept me busy for years :) Managing the complexity of an app with over 200 highly-connected tables made the limitations of current validation, API design, and state management tools exceedingly clear.

My open-source projects are tools I built to manage this complexity. I hope they're useful to anyone who wants to build apps in a type-safe, reliable way.

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  1. colinhacks/zod

    TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference

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    A developer blog starter for 2021 (Next.js + React + TypeScript + Markdown + syntax highlighting)

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