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Minimal template

Who it's for: developers, writers, and founders.

A quiet layout for developers, writers, and founders. Strong typography, almost no chrome, room for a short bio and the work that matters.

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Alex Chen is a fictional demo. This template’s preview username is alex.

  • text — Now
  • github — harbor-labs/ink
  • github — harbor-labs/harbor
  • link — Types as documentation — Northshore Conf
  • text — Writing
  • email — Write to Alex
  • contact — Work with me

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Alex Chen

Languages, tools, and the notes between them

I design small languages and the CLIs that keep them honest. Currently at Harbor Labs, previously on the typechecker for a research notebook that got out of hand in the best way.

San Francisco

Now

Building Ink, a typed notebook format for people who write with code sitting next to the sentence. Harbor is the CLI around it — evals, snapshots, and a boringly reliable local workflow.

GitHub

harbor-labs/ink

A typed notebook format. Prose, code, and tests in one file that still diffs like a human wrote it.

TypeScript · local-first

GitHub

harbor-labs/harbor

The CLI for Ink: run, snapshot, and compare notebooks without standing up a service.

Rust · CLITypes as documentation — Northshore ConfTalk notes and slides

Writing

Occasional notes on type systems that stay out of the way, local-first tools, and why most developer portfolios look like résumé PDFs with extra steps.

Write to AlexSlow email, real replies.

Work with me

Tell me about the project. I read every note.