# Steve Simkins (@stevedylan.dev)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/stevedylan.dev
Headline: DX Engineer focused on developer tooling and open web standards
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

## About

Steve has spent the past several years building skills that specialize in creating an exceptional developer experience for blockchain products. Whether it’s documentation or SDKs, Steve tackles everything to do with DX. In addition Steve has a passion for building open source software, including frameworks like bhvr or services like Orbiter.

## Experience

- **Senior Solutions Engineer at Stablecore** (2026 – present)
- **Co-Founder at Orbiter** (2025 – 2026)
- **Head of Developer Relations at Pinata** (2023 – 2025)
- **Head of Community at Pinata** (2022 – 2023)
- **Community Manager at Pinata** (2022 – 2022)
- **Customer Inquiry Specialist at Old Point National Bank** (2017 – 2022)
- **Hunting and Archery Department Team Lead at Bass Pro Shops** (2014 – 2017)
- **Developer Relations at OpenZeppelin** (2025 – 2025)

## Skills

- Software Development
- Web Design
- Marketing
- Content Strategy
- Video
- Customer Support
- Technical Documentation
- Go (Programming Language)
- Front-End Development
- Full-Stack Development
- Communication
- Smart Contracts
- Web Development
- Technical Writing
- React.js
- Node.js
- Customer Service
- Contact Centers
- Back Office Operations
- JavaScript
- Customer Service Representatives
- Customer-focused Service
- Solidity

## Certifications

- EthOnline 2023 Finalist — ETHGlobal (https://ethglobal.com/showcase/cosmic-cowboys-3q0co)

## Publications

- API Calls in iOS Shortcuts — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/api-calls-in-ios-shortcuts)
- How to Hate AI — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/how-to-hate-ai)
- Feeds: a Minimal RSS Aggregator and Client — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/feeds)
- Wisdom from a Clear Pen — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/wisdom-from-a-clear-pen)
- Deep Green — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/deep-green)
- Spring Website Updates — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/spring-website-updates)
- Building Personal Software in Rust — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/building-personal-software-in-rust)
- Captains Log 1776383078 — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/captains-log-1776383078)
- Indexing Standard.site — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/indexing-standard-site)
- Machines — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/machines)
- Migrating from lazy.nvim to vim.pack — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/migrating-from-lazy-to-vim-pack)
- Genesis — andromeda.offprint.app (https://andromeda.offprint.app/a/3mi2gkz5uih23-genesis)
- A Case for Birding — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/a-case-for-birding)
- Captains Log 1774231082 — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/captains-log-1774231082)
- Native Treesitter in Neovim — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/native-treesitter-in-neovim)
- Returning to Neovim — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/returning-to-neovim)
- Keystroke Dynamics: My New Rabbit Hole — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/keystroke-dynamics-rabbit-hole)
- Back to Basic — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/back-to-basic)
- Captains Log 1772509466 — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/captains-log-1772509466)
- Programmers on the Verge of Extinction — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/programmers-on-the-verge-of-extinction)
- Sipp — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/sipp)
- Cryptography Focused — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/cryptography-focused)
- Pencils — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/pencils)
- The Strangers Case — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/the-strangers-case)
- The Bar-tailed Godwit — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/the-bar-tailed-godwit)
- Introducing Sequoia: Publishing for the Open Web — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/introducing-sequoia)
- Experimenting with Svelte — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/experimenting-with-svelte)
- The Peace of Wild Things — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/the-peace-of-wild-things)
- AT Protocol Primer — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/atproto-starter)
- AT Protocol Primer — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/atproto-starter)
- Captains Log 1768956564 — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/captains-log-1768956564)
- Juno Mission — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/juno-mission)
- Good Days — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/good-days)
- I made a standard.site aggregator — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/i-made-a-standard-site-aggregator)
- Domain Steal — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/domain-steal)
- Standard.site Integration — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/standard-site-integration)
- Standard.site: the Publishing Gateway — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/standard-site-the-publishing-gateway)
- Bird Lists — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/birds-lists)
- Tape Collection — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/tape-collection)
- The First Update — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/now/the-first-update)
- ATProto, POSSE, and Personal Sites — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/using-atproto-for-posse)
- 2026, the Future of this Website, and the Web Itself — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/2026-site-plans)
- How Gemini Gives me Hope for a Future Internet — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/how-gemini-gives-me-hope)
- Alcove: An RSS Reader for the Open Web — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/introducing-alcove)
- Concerning Omarchy and Distro Philosophy — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/concerning-omarchy-and-distro-philosophy)
- Programming Bowls — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/programming-bowls)
- When AI Gives the 'Ick' — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/when-ai-gives-the-ick)
- Resurrect the Old Web — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/resurrect-the-old-web)
- Turning Solidity NatSpec into Interactive Markdown UI — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/turning-natspec-into-markdown-ui)
- The Meaning of Life — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/the-meaning-of-life)
- Learning Rust With AI — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/learning-rust-with-ai)
- Vibe Coding and Kodak Cameras — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/vibe-coding-and-kodak-cameras)
- Why You Should Learn jq in 2024 — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/why-you-should-learn-jq-in-2024)
- Building a Guestbook with PGlite, Clerk, and Pinata — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/building-a-guestbook-with-pglite-clerk-and-pinata)
- Leaving Neovim for Zed — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/leaving-neovim-for-zed)
- Building Snippets.so — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/building-snippets-so)
- A Terminal Based Workflow — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/a-terminal-based-workflow)
- Why I Learned Vim — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/why-i-learned-vim)
- How to Encrypt and Decrypt Files on IPFS Using Lit Protocol — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/how-to-encrypt-and-decrypt-files-on-ipfs-using-lit)
- How to Run Your Own Public IPFS Gateway — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/how-to-run-your-own-ipfs-gateway)
- How to Migrate from Neovim to VSCode — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/how-to-migrate-from-neovim-to-vscode)
- How To Create a Weekly Photo Zine — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/how-to-create-a-weekly-photo-zine)
- 48 Hours Disconnected — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/48-hours-disconnected)
- Arc: The Internet Computer — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/arc-internet)
- My Developer Journey — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/my-developer-journey)
- How to Mint an NFT on Sui using Pinata and the Sui JS SDK — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/how-to-mint-on-sui)
- How to Create a Dynamic App NFT Resume — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/3d-nft-resume)
- A Case for IPFS on Layer 1 Blockchains — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/case-for-ipfs-on-l1-chains)
- Scaling Your NFT Project: A Beginner’s Guide to IPFS — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/beginners-guide-to-ipfs)
- Resizing IPFS Images with Pinata’s Image Optimization Tools — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/resizing-ipfs-images)
- How to Create 3D NFTs on Solana — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/3d-solana-nfts)
- How to Offset Your NFT Project Carbon Emissions with Aerial — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/how-to-offset-nft-emissions)
- The Power of Dedicated Gateways — stevedylan.dev (https://stevedylan.dev/posts/the-power-of-dedicated-gateways)

## Other profiles

- website: https://stevedylan.dev
- github: https://github.com/stevedylandev
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@stevedylandev