I build and run web apps end to end. Database, servers, deploys, and the screen someone actually taps on. Seven years of it so far, most of that on Laravel and React, lately with a lot of Expo and Electron mixed in.
I'm Sicangu Lakota, and the way I work comes from that. Patience with the problem, intention in what I ship, and respect for the person on the other side of the screen. Off the clock I'm at a coffee shop, gaming with my ten-year-old son, or in Ceremony.
- Building thelakotadev.com, my own platform and the home of Native StoryBooks
- The parts I enjoy most are the ones nobody sees: realtime systems, slow queries, self-managed infra, and a little ML
- Ask me anything. Making technology make sense is most of the job.
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My platform, built the same way I build for clients. Laravel with Inertia and React 19 server-side rendering, realtime over Laravel Reverb, on a self-managed AWS EC2 box with Apache and automated TLS. It's also where Native StoryBooks lives, a community archive where people upload, geotag, and manage tribal stories on a map.
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The mobile app for Native StoryBooks. Expo SDK 57 with Expo Router, TanStack Query for server state, and Sanctum tokens in SecureStore. Everything goes through the Laravel API, nothing touches the database directly. Feed, story map with tappable pins, story composer with a drop-a-pin picker, comments and @mentions, notifications, and opt-in alerts when you travel within 30 miles of a story.
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A soundboard, mic mixer, voice changer, and replay buffer for Discord, game chat, streaming, and calls. Runs on Mac and Windows. No accounts, no uploads, no telemetry. Twenty-five voice presets, a lookahead limiter so overlapping sounds don't clip, a replay buffer that keeps the last three minutes of everything you hear, and an always-on-top overlay you can hit mid-game. Electron, Web Audio worklets, and a Playwright test suite that drives the real app.
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Earlier work
- Star Trek App. Search aliens and characters through a separate Node API. live · code
- Vegetarian API. Scan a UPC and find out if the product is vegetarian. live · code
- Menu Tracker. Keep tabs on your favorite restaurants' online menus. code
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