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Ilias Trichopoulos irl
Software engineer with focus on frontend,
minimalist, and life-long learner.
About me
I went online in 2001.
Since my early days on the web, I've grown into building alongside talented designers and engineers who have raised my standards of what building good software means. A journey that eventually took me to work at the web's birthplace, CERN.
Projects
There is always a project in the works, whether professional or personal, and an endless list of ideas. Here are some of the projects I've spent most of my time on and am most proud of.
Alephium Desktop Wallet
Electron React app for securely storing and managing assets on the Alephium blockchain.
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Flatwise
A web app that fairly redistributes furniture costs when flatmates move in or out, using depreciation instead of an awkward conversation. Built with Vue.js & Material UI. Used in a real Zurich flatshare since 2019.
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Alephium Mobile Wallet
React Native app completing the Alephium Desktop Wallet, built for everyday use.
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Writing about the things I learn along the way.
Giving OpenClaw Safe Access to Your Obsidian Vault
How I gave my self-hosted AI assistant read access to my entire Obsidian vault and restricted write access to a single folder — without risking my notes.
From Callbacks to Promises: Same Patterns, Less Pain (part 2)
Rebuilding the same sequential, parallel, and limited-concurrency exercises with promises and async/await, and watching the manual bookkeeping disappear.
Mastering Async Callbacks in Node.js, Without the Complexity (part 1)
The web spider example from Node.js Design Patterns lost me. Here are the simple exercises I used to finally internalize callback-based async control flow.