I build things, and I love having the perfect tools to build things with. So if I need a tool that doesn’t exist, I’ll just make it myself. This profile is a collection of these tools, assembled over 15 years or so.
📦 Packages
Tested, and documented; you can use these yourself.
🤗 Personal
Working but undocumented; mileage may vary.
🧩 Incomplete
Not quite there yet.
🗑️ Obsolete
No longer relevant.
🦠 Sample
It's just some code that runs.
Type
Library ✦ Framework ✦ Tool ✦ Hotkeys
Language
Typescript ✦ Python ✦ Rust ✦ C# ✦ F# ✦ Scala ✦ Kotlin ✦ Bash ✦ AutoHotKey
Tech
Kubernetes ✦ VSCode ✦ .NET ✦ React ✦ Unicode ✦ DOM
Domain
Parsing ✦ Modding ✦ Printing ✦ Testing ✦ Scripting ✦ Binding ✦ RPC
Paradigm
Functional ✦ Reactive ✦ Aspect-Oriented
Here are some random opinions about tech things I've used. Why is this here? Who knows.
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TypeScript: My fondest love. This is the thing I’m best at right now.
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JavaScript: Terrible language; beautiful ecosystem.
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Python: Wonderful language with lots of use-cases.
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C#:
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F#: My first love; but shot itself in the foot from day 1.
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F*: Type theory porn; of the hardest and most beautiful kind.
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Scala: Even I think the type system has too much going on. Still love it tho.
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Kotlin: The thing I write in when I find myself needing to write Java.
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Bash: It’s bash. Love it or hate it, you cannot escape it.
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Fish: I hate shells, but this one seems to be an exception.
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LaTeX: It’s a terrible language that forever be the best at what it does.
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SCSS: So good CSS had to steal most of its features.
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Go: It used to not have generics so I stayed away. Now it has them, so yay! I’ll probably end up using it one day.
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PowerShell: Terrible as a shell, worse as a language. Just plain bad.
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Rust: Beautiful language; but hard to justify in most contexts.
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Haskell: Like the sun, too beautiful to gaze at directly; but a great source of inspiration.
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AutoHotKey: v1 is terrible; v2 is merely bad. Still, has its niche, which it fills perfectly.
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C++: Not bad at all. Might be too complicated. But sometimes exactly what you need.
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C: Another language that's beyond criticism. It does stuff nothing else can do.
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R: I don’t really get why you’d use it. I guess if you know it already?
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WolframScript: The swiss army knife of mathematics. Damn ugly though.
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Ruby: Just use Python.
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Boo: Never really took off. Was really cute though!
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Lisp: The best thing about F#? Sometimes, you can avoid using parens.
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OpenCL: Too good to be true; true anyway.
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XAML: Huge mess; also the best way to do traditional-esque Windows UI.