Sometimes I create web applications ☁, games 🕹, other software 💻, and prose 📝. If others might be interested in those things, I collect them here!

Active Projects

💻 TCal 2020

crystal

iCal feed of planned service disruptions on “the T”, my city’s public transit system.

💻 Advent of Code 2015+

ruby, elixir, algorithms

Solutions to Advent of Code, a series of language-agnostic programming puzzles released in sets of 25 each December. My personal goal is to solve each set in a different language, using only the language’s standard library.

📚 Open source work 2012+

Open-source libraries feature heavily in my work, and I like to give back when I can. This link is a live search for all issues and pull requests I’ve authored on GitHub, filtering out paid work and projects with their own entry on this page.

Past Projects

📝 Wāpuro Rōmaji 2018

Code exercise based on a real-world text conversion problem. Created for Wistia Engineering.

☁ SchoolBot 2015–2016

rails, rspec, ember, leaflet, postgres, redis, heroku, s3

Mobile web app that tracks school bus locations. Originally an in-house Vermonster product, now an open-source project with a paid hosting option, schoolbot.io. I led development and documentation of SchoolBot from its conception through launch.

💻 Homebrew Notifier 2015

shell scripting

Push-button-install script that notifies you when any of your Homebrew packages are outdated.

💻 Sesame 2015

sinatra, redis, slack, twilio, heroku

Slack-operated access control for telephone-based intercom systems. Created for the Vermonster office.

☁ CSH WebNews 2011–2015

rails, postgres, coffeescript, jquery, nntp

Web-based client for a private news server operated by Computer Science House, with progressive enhancements, email notifications, and a JSON API supporting third-party iOS and Android apps.

  • WebNews v0 was my second Rails app ever (and it shows), but nevertheless saw wide adoption and had 100+ weekly active users within CSH for several years.

  • WebNews v1 was an unfinished 2015 rewrite that only got as far as the API and its documentation.

📝 thoughtbot blogs 2012

While apprenticing at thoughtbot, I had the privilege of writing a few posts for their blog, Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots:

🕹 Warp Zone 2012

gamemaker 8

Quick-thinking game about navigating twisting tunnels filled with obstacles at warp speed.

☁ Clobber on Rails 2011

rails, sqlite3, jquery, svg, heroku

An online version of an obscure board game, created for a class project, and my first Rails app ever.

☁ Haddock on Heroku 2011

sinatra, heroku

Simple web frontend for Haddock, a library that generates memorable passwords.

💻 NetHack achievements 2011

c, mysql

During a brief stint on Computer Science House’s BingeHack project (at the time a fork of the original NetHack, now a fork of NetHack 4), I designed and integrated a full set of “achievements” into the game. Unfortunately, the names and descriptions were stored in a database that now appears offline.

💻 Twittjr 2009

ruby, ibm basic

Pseudo-live feed of the most recent public tweets matching a specified search… on an IBM PCjr.

🕹 Vectrocity 2009

flash, actionscript 3

Space shoot-‘em-up game with a retro vector style. Dodge lasers, collect powerups, and blast waves of enemies into glowy green line segments.

🕹 Black Hole Wars 2008

gamemaker 7

Unfinished head-to-head game where players slingshot asteroids into planets using black holes.