Nicolas Jensen
Full Stack Developer
I have a passion for building functional tools for developers that are highly extensible, configurable, have a seamless developer experience, and are enjoyable to use.

Projects
Nested Drag and Drop
A drag and drop system that allows for draging and droping elements into each other
Built in multiple different frameworks:
- React
- Custom Elements (Vanilla JS)
- LitV2 (Custom Element Framework)
- Ruby on Rails (Stimulus)
Tailwind Theme Plugin
A plugin for Tailwind that makes switching between colors easier and less verbose
Notable Features:
-
Supports all tailwind color variants
(e.g.
text
,bg
,placeholder
,ring
) - Streamlines the creation of themed components
- Enables tailwind to function in applications that support multiple built-in or user defined themes
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Rails Filtering System
A filtering system for rails models, along with a frontend view for inputting filters
Notable Features:
- Works on all models by default
- Supports nested filtering queries
- Allows for authorization at both the field and model level
- Supports aggregations in the filtering like sum, count, average, etc.
- Built to be extensible and easily configured (supports plugins and initializer configuration)
Rails Scoped Authorization
A rails gem that provides an authorization system by building on top of the Pundit gem
Notable Features:
- Role based authorization
- Permissions scoped by model and CRUD action
- Roles and permissions are configurable by an admin user
-
Permissions can have configurable scopes
(e.g. "admin" users can edit all users, but "manager" users can only edit users in their team)
Rails Advanced Authentication
A rails gem that makes use of warden and omniauth to provide a multitenanted authentication system
Notable Features:
- Multitenancy
- Omniauth
- Invitations
- Impersonations
- 2FA
- Email/Phone Verification
- Multi-identifier Authentication
- Password Reset
Good Job Correlation Causation
A very small rails gem that adds correlation and causation to all enqueued jobs.
This allows you to easily determine where a job came from, either by jumping to the job that spawned it, or by jumping directly to the initial job that started the entire chain.
Rails Boilerplate
A Rails application that makes use of previous projects to create a fullstack boilerplate that can be generated to contain only the features you need through Rails Application Templates
Notable Features:
- Advanced Authentication Features
- Advanced Scoped Authorizations
- Approval System
- Advanced Frontend Filtering System
Stickers
Small project that uses javascript and some geometry and math tricks to create a sticker like effect on any HTML element
Splines
A spline class that allows for various types of splines to be created, which was built to be used in a color palette generator similar to Color Box
Breadboard CPU
A CPU built from scratch on breadboards, made by following Ben Eater's 8-bit breadboard computer series (with some personal modifications to the design)
Modifications:
- Changed architecture to support a 16-bit addressable memory space (Still only 8-bit data bus)
-
Added several new instructions including
JSR
andRTS
- Added extra registers to make programming easier
UI Layout Library
A library for manually calculating the position, size, styling of elements in a grid or flexbox like manner, made as a learning exersize with inspiration from Nic Barker's Clay UI library
Notable Features:
- Written in both Ruby and Rust
- Supports Fixed, Fit, Grow, Shrink, and Relative sizing options
- Supports dynamic content sizing
- Uses a simple DSL to define layouts
- Follows CSS naming conventions to simplify usage