I’m a self-employed software engineer from Switzerland 🇨🇭, running
👉 zwei und eins gmbh — where I help companies and IT teams build and simplify web applications.
My current focus:
- Reducing complexity in existing web applications
- Backend & application architecture
- Identifying and removing unnecessary SPA / API layers
- Server-driven, hypermedia-based systems (Datastar, SSE streaming, events, HTML APIs)
If your web application is costly to maintain and increasingly complex, I help remove unnecessary complexity — so it becomes stable, understandable, and cheaper to evolve.
Most of my work is private client work — this profile shows selected open-source projects and experiments.
The tools obviously matter less than the outcome — clarity, simplicity and long-term maintainability.
- PHP (async w/ Swoole, Mezzio, Slim, Twig, DI, JWT, strictly typed), occasionally Go and Python
- Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite
- Frontend: ES6 / TypeScript, HTML, CSS/Sass (Bulma, Open Props)
- Build & tooling: ESBuild, phpstan, php-cs-fixer
- Approach: server-centric, streaming, minimal client state (Datastar, SSE)
I occasionally touch React or Vue or other SPAs — but usually when migrating away from them 😉.
- BSc in Computer Science (IT Security major)
- Recently back from a 16 month roadtrip through Scandinavia, Baltic, Balkan, around the Black Sea and Caucasus in a ’92 Mercedes T1 310 4x4 🚒
- Married, father of two
- Outside of code: cycling 🚴, running 🏃, photography 📷, cars 🚗, music 🎶
PGP key: keybase.io/mbolli
- mbolli/nfsen-ng — Responsive NetFlow visualizer built on top of nfdump tools. (1 day ago)
- mbolli/php-via — Real-time engine for building reactive web applications in PHP with Swoole. (2 days ago)
- mbolli/datastar-attribute-prop — Datastar plugin to sync element properties with reactive signals (1 week ago)
- mbolli/datastar-attribute-on-keys — Datastar plugin to bind keyboard keys to actions (2 weeks ago)
- mbolli/php-geobuf — PHP library for the geobuf compact geospatial format. (1 month ago)
- mbolli/tempest-highlight-datastar — Datastar syntax highlighting for tempest/highlight — Adds HTML attribute, expression, signal & action token support for Datastar to the Tempest Highlight code highlighter. Includes Twig integration.
- mbolli/ai-chatbot — PHP/Swoole/Datastar port of Vercel’s AI Chatbot
- mbolli/php-timeline — High-performance PHP timeline app built with Swoole, Mezzio & Datastar. Real-time multiplayer via SSE, CQRS architecture, PSR-7/PSR-15 middleware. A reference implementation for building modern PHP applications.
- mbolli/php-via — Real-time engine for building reactive web applications in PHP with Swoole.
- mbolli/datastar-attribute-on-keys — Datastar plugin to bind keyboard keys to actions
- mbolli/nfsen-ng (v1.0-alpha, 4 days ago) - Responsive NetFlow visualizer built on top of nfdump tools.
- mbolli/php-via (v0.7.1, 1 week ago) - Real-time engine for building reactive web applications in PHP with Swoole.
- mbolli/datastar-attribute-on-keys (v1.2.0, 2 weeks ago) - Datastar plugin to bind keyboard keys to actions
- PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer (v3.95.1, 2 weeks ago) - A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues
- mbolli/php-geobuf (v0.3.0, 1 month ago) - PHP library for the geobuf compact geospatial format.
- Configurable adapter factory on mbolli/phoenix (2 months ago)
- Configurable adapter factory on lulco/phoenix (3 months ago)
- Fix PHP 8.4 deprecation, update dependencies, update min PHP to 8.1 on tuupola/server-timing-middleware (3 months ago)
- v1 preview on mbolli/nfsen-ng (6 months ago)
- UX: Warn if executed php version is higher than the minimum php version defined in composer.json on PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer (6 months ago)
- Get autoscout24.ch favourites as csv (3 years ago)
- GPS/NMEA collector setup (gpsd/prometheus/grafana) (4 years ago)
- Gets the size of the current folder's contents, as long as they're older than the year specified. Useful for scanning through a big directory, if you want to archive stuff older than x years. Ignores Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files. (8 years ago)
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- psviderski/uncloud - A lightweight tool for deploying and managing containerised applications across a network of Docker hosts. Bridging the gap between Docker and Kubernetes ✨ (2 weeks ago)
- tconbeer/harlequin - The SQL IDE for Your Terminal. (1 month ago)
- cosmiciron/vmprint - A blazing-fast, DTP-grade layout engine built entirely in TypeScript. Move over HarfBuzz and headless browsers; this is the real deal. You can finally build the software you’ve always dreamed of, but never thought possible. (1 month ago)
- AlexsJones/llmfit - Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware. (2 months ago)
- stukennedy/irgo - Native app development framework for mobile and desktop using Go and Datastar. (3 months ago)