Victor Stein — Field notes from the stackAlfonso — a.k.a. Victor Stein — full-stack TypeScript engineer in Nicaragua building NestJS + GraphQL backends, React/Next frontends, and the CLIs & TUIs in between.https://victor-stein.dev/en-usI'd become a single point of failurehttps://victor-stein.dev/blog/migration-status-board/https://victor-stein.dev/blog/migration-status-board/A cross-market migration ran on me running curl by hand into a spreadsheet. So I built a Cloudflare Worker board to delete myself from the loop.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcloudflare-workersd1monitoringmigrationtypescriptVictor SteinMy wrist hurt, so I learned to type all over againhttps://victor-stein.dev/blog/corne-to-voyager/https://victor-stein.dev/blog/corne-to-voyager/Wrist pain pushed me into ergo keyboards — a DIY Corne, weeks of monkeytype, home-row mods I had to engineer, and finally a Voyager I hand-rolled in QMK.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTergonomicscornezmkqmkhome-row-modsVictor SteinI kept dropping tasks as a tech lead, so I built a TUIhttps://victor-stein.dev/blog/building-tawtui/https://victor-stein.dev/blog/building-tawtui/How I built tawtui — an OpenTUI + Solid terminal app that runs my tech-lead workflow and embeds agent-driven PR review as a terminal inside the terminal.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTterminalopentuisolidjstypescripttuinestjsVictor SteinA cheap friend wanted my Plex, so I wrote OpenTofuhttps://victor-stein.dev/blog/homelab-opentofu/https://victor-stein.dev/blog/homelab-opentofu/One Tailscale ACL to lend a friend my Plex — safely. Then I codified my GitHub and Cloudflare too, until my whole control plane ran on OpenTofu.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTinfraopentofutailscaleiacgithub-actionsVictor SteinI kept postponing a new Mac to dodge the migrationhttps://victor-stein.dev/blog/seed-bootstrap/https://victor-stein.dev/blog/seed-bootstrap/I avoided the Mac I wanted because migrating sucked. So I built seed — one curl that rebuilds any machine of mine, credentials and all, from a YubiKey.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTbootstrapyubikeygpgdotfilesmacosVictor SteinI lost a bonus, so I learned to code in Notepadhttps://victor-stein.dev/blog/callcenter-to-engineer/https://victor-stein.dev/blog/callcenter-to-engineer/The real version of my call-center-to-engineer story starts with a lost bonus, an HTML file on a shared drive, and a name I borrowed from Frankenstein.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTcareercommunicationjavascriptself-taughtVictor Stein