Marcel QT (he/him)

Building PantryPal 🧄 | Software Eng | Social Impact Focused | SWE @ LuxuryEscapes | He/Him 👨🏻‍💻

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

Announcing PantryPal, your new assistant in the kitchen 🥧

PantryPal improves home cooking by suggesting recipes for ingredients you already have. Get cooking faster.

Early registrations now open. Launching in June, keep an eye out 👀

https://t.co/4fHMIfuCj0

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

I don’t know what lies ahead for the future of software engineering, but I think that staying curious, learning from fundamentals, and having fun along the way will bring success no matter what comes next.

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

While AI can threaten software jobs, I can’t help but appreciate its acceleration of my output and knowledge about my craft

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

I’m also noticing less coding fatigue than I used to. Side projects and one-off tools that I never had the time to build are now possible. Niche knowledge of programming languages that I might not have bothered to research previously is now instantly accessible.

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

Linus vibe coding and saying AI did better than him feels surreal. Not sure if it indicates AI advancement or the beginning of the end of human-led development

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

2026 Dev Goals

- Scale PantryPal to 10,000 monthly active users (currently ~500)

- Launch PantryPal as a web app and native recipe website

- Become a cooking content creator

- Continue mastering React Native, Typescript and Python

- Post more about my dev journey

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

@reactiive_ fantastic ruleset, will try today

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

@cursor_ai Noticed that specifying specific PRs and commits is no longer available via symbols. What’s the best way to provide this context now?

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

@kyleanthony @helixdb incredible design

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

under <100 lines of code and i’m able to transition my react native mobile app into a web app

pretty insane time to be a dev

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

@S0LARIN awesome work

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

@zenorocha Congrats team! I just signed up today

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

@birch_js this is such a sick idea

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

@GarnetKane99 looking so good

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

such a great time to be building in the react native ecosystem

[Saúl @saulsharma]

🚀I built Voltra, an npm package that lets you:

ship custom Live Activities, Widgets, Dynamic Island + more with React.

No Swift, Xcode, or extra JS runtime needed.
⚡ Hot reload
⛽ Server push
✻ AI coding agent-friendly
𝝠 @Expo + React Native ready

Demo + must-read Thread⬇️

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

@GarnetKane99 sooooo cool to see the incremental progress man

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

so satisfying to see some growth on pantrypal. hit 100 unique users in last 7 days which is a milestone for us!

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

@GarnetKane99 hellll yeah! will be out in public beta soon 👀

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

cheeky new side project inbound

[Marcel QT (he/him) @marcelqtaylor]

My web dev skills just increased 10x