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I'm a software handyman. I'm curious about everything, but I'm most proud of concise, minimal work. I wouldn't call anything of my own elegant, but that's always the ultimate goal.

Here are some things I like:

• math
• analytical solutions
• data visualization
• computer graphics
• extremely simple, single-purpose web apps
• open source
• biking
• photography
• scifi
• history of science
• thinking up goofy contraptions to solve dumb domestic problems, and making them
• magnets
• regular polyhedra
• M.C. Escher
• board games
• puzzles
• blinkenlights
• adventure
• novelty
• good puns, and also bad puns

Isn't it annoying when you check out someone's github profile, and their repos are just a bunch of forks with no updates? Here are some of the repos that I actually use:

Stuff I use actively:

• quickref - CLI tool to use and manage cheat sheets stored one-topic-per-file, one-note-per-line
• treemonger - disk usage visualizer, in the style of spacemonger
• jumble - "jumble" daily puzzle as a minimal web app [defunct after the "API" that I reverse engineered shut down... or noticed me]
• fswatch - simple hack to use org-tables as source content to generate static websites, with "deployment" to shared hosting via FTP
• svgtools - tools for working with svg images in python
• tripinator - scripts for generating a static photo gallery website, with an inset map showing a GPX track

Working on it:

• dymaxion - I'm trying to build a CNC globe, generating the design files from scratch (or on top of python+numpy, anyway) because that seems easier than trying to find some combination of GIS/CAD tooling that can do what I need. Mathematica might be able to do it all, but I don't have that much need for it, plus I prefer open source options, especially for programming languages.
• sdf-cad - utilities and projects for 3d printing, using https://github.com/deadsy/sdfx instead of openscad
• blog

Done:

• pynrose - program that procedurally draws a penrose triangle, generalized in several ways
• pyzzle - jigsaw SVG generator
• weddingbox-video - basic example of how to create a CG animation of a wooden CNC project using only open-source, programmatic tools

Mostly abandoned:

• dash - simple handler for hacked amazon dash buttons
• celebutty - chrome extension to replace annoying celebrity names
• dotfiles - complicated modular system for environment-dependent dotfiles, which i abandoned when i realized i'm pretty happy with using the same dotfiles in all environments, and also that writing software in bash sucks

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