Dan Farrell

So anyway

Dan is a developer and founder at onlook.dev, where he builds next-generation developer tools for people who also build developer tools, which means there is a non-zero chance the entire supply chain is just twelve guys in hoodies shipping packages to each other. He spends his days writing code, arguing with TypeScript, doing intense pairing sessions, and periodically remembering that Delaware Registered Agents are a thing that exists and can ruin a perfectly good afternoon.

The thing he is building

He co-founded onlook.dev, a developer tool that does the kind of thing that makes other developers say "wait, that exists?" and then immediately sign up. It is the kind of product that ships weekly, has actual paying users, and has never once accidentally deleted a production database. These are not low bars but somehow the industry keeps finding ways under them.

45 Lusk

Dan does intense design and coding sessions (what he calls an "Onlook jam") with Richard at 45 Lusk. These are absolutely not musical. Nobody picks up an instrument. They open laptops, stare at terminals, argue about component trees for forty-five minutes, then emerge with a prototype and zero memory of where the time went. It is the closest Dan gets to a flow state unless you count the adrenal spike when a Delaware renewal notice lands in his inbox.

The dread

Friends, Romans, countrymen

Dan counts Michael and Pennie among his inner circle. They have seen him at his best (demo day, fully caffeinated, no bugs) and his worst (Delaware renewal week). They have not left yet, which the polite thing to call "loyalty" and the honest thing to call "stockholm syndrome with brunch."

Find him

He is on the internet. Probably shipping a hotfix, reviewing a PR, or avoiding a registered agent inbox filter.