Hi, I'm Shalvah.

I'm passionate about making better dev tools, APIs, and documentation.

I made...

• @this_vid, Twitter bot to easily download videos from Tweets
• oldtweets.today—Facebook's "On This Day" feature for Twitter
• @RemindMe_OfThis, Twitter bot to easily set reminders
• Tentacle—a single email a week containing new content from all the blogs you follow
• API Documentation for Developers, a course to help you write kickass docs.

I've been working on these open-source projects:

• Scribe, the best tool (no kidding!) to automatically generate friendly API documentation from your Laravel codebase.
• There's a Node.js version too!
• twittersignin: Implement sign in with Twitter in Node.js AND keep your sanity, at the same time.
• twitter-error-handler: Properly handle error responses from by the Twitter API (Node.js).
• Strive: Automatically try different approaches until you get a result.
• aargh: Selectively handle errors in JavaScript.

I write!✍

I write about interesting software engineering problems on my dev blog. I also do some YouTube streams occasionally. For personal (uncensored) stuff, I use Twitter.

And I've also got a newsletter. It's twice a month, and I talk about what I'm working on, interesting Internet stuff and whatever's on my mind. See past issues here. Subscribe?🤗