Luke Berry

Accomplishments

• Listed as a Raycast ambassador on Berry's X profile.³⁴
• Built phived and css2wind in public and wrote that Berry contributed to open source in the Brazilian Dev community.²⁵
• Published "Raycast: Second Impressions" on 15 May 2024, after joining Raycast Slack as a beta tester.⁶

Background

Berry was born in São Paulo and moved to Florianópolis as a child. After two years studying economics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Berry left the program and first used programming as a data analyst at an unnamed tech startup, then learned HTML, JavaScript, and React after completing freeCodeCamp's Responsive Web Design course.²

In 2024 Berry traveled to Torino, later lived in Málaga, and then moved to the United Kingdom and took a software job in London, where Berry now lives. The London employer is not named on Berry's site or X profile.²¹³

Open source and the Brazilian Dev community

Berry writes that after moving into frontend work, Berry became more active in the Brazilian Dev community, sharing UI bugs and building projects in public, including phived and css2wind, and contributing to open source.²

On Berry's projects page, phived is a five-task list that requires finishing a task before adding another, and css2wind is a minigame that asks players to translate eight CSS properties into Tailwind CSS utilities.⁵

Raycast

In May 2024 Berry published "Raycast: Second Impressions," describing a return to Raycast after first preferring Alfred, and writing that a Raycast engineer invited Berry to Slack as a beta tester. Berry's X profile lists Berry as an ambassador for Raycast; Raycast's ambassadors program page describes that role as community events, education, and product feedback rather than employment.⁶³⁴

Work and contributions

• phived Open-source code

  A five-task list that requires finishing a previous task before adding another, which Berry built in public.⁵²

• css2wind Open-source code

  A minigame that asks players to translate eight CSS properties into equivalent Tailwind CSS utilities.⁵²

Timeline

1. Oct 2021Joined X as @LukeberryPi.³
2. May 15, 2024Published "Raycast: Second Impressions" from Torino, writing that Berry had switched from Alfred to Raycast.⁶
3. 2024Moved to London after time in Torino and Málaga, and took a software job there (employer not named on Berry's site or X profile).²

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Economics student (left after two years), Federal University of Santa Catarina²

Where they work

• Raycast 1 person in the wiki

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