How to set up NextJS app router, tRPC, and React Query
Set up NextJS app router, tRPC, and React Query
I build learning tools and automation that people actually keep using.
I'm Dastan, a full-stack engineer. I spend most of my time on backends and databases, and the rest on side projects I can't leave alone.
- Rustfinity
- 15k+users, 1.3k+ monthly active
- Open source
- 99★LetterSpace on GitHub
- Stack
- RustTypeScriptNext.jsPostgresDocker
Selected work
Three side projects I keep coming back to
- 01
Rustfinity
A Rust learning platform with 15k+ registered users and 1.3k+ monthly actives.
- Rust
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Postgres
- Docker
- 02
RankMill
An agent pipeline that researches your brand and writes blog content on autopilot.
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Postgres
- LLM agents
- 03
LetterSpace
Self-hosted open source newsletter platform, built around the UX the hosted ones gave up on.
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- tRPC
- Prisma
- Postgres
- Tailwind CSS
- shadcn/ui
About
Full-stack by trade, side-project engineer by habit.
I'm Dastan, a full-stack engineer. Most of my work sits on the backend: services, databases, and the Node.js and Rust that hold them together. But I'm comfortable taking a feature all the way out to the browser.
More about me- Languages
- TypeScript · Rust · Node.js · SQL · Python · Go
- Frontend
- Next.js · React · Tailwind CSS · Playwright
- Databases
- Postgres · Redis · Prisma · Drizzle
- Infrastructure
- Docker · Nomad · Kubernetes · Terraform · GitHub Actions
Latest writing
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Building something people have to learn? Let's talk.
I take on product and platform work in Rust and TypeScript: teaching tools, agent pipelines, anything that has to stay fast under real users. Email is the fastest way to reach me.