Self-taught generalist programmer.
Writes code by hand for money to achieve shared understanding.
See Peter Naur - Programming as Theory Building.
Below are my personal explorations over the past few years.
See my source repo list for more things I haven't documented here yet.
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dop | Rust. A minimal local-first habit tracker that lets you track your positive and negative actions from the command line. |
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mpcemu | Rust. Emulator of NEC V53 CPU, as used in AKAI MPC2000XL. I've implemented about half of the instruction set - it runs the MPC3000 ROM about as far as printing the initial boot string. |
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hfedisk | Rust. Partial implementation of HFE disk image format used by the Gotek HxC floppy emulators, like the one I have in my S3000XL sampler. Used by dawless to load drum kits into that old beast. |
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laterna | Rust. Renders piano rolls to the terminal. Used by dawless when browsing Electribe patches. |
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midichka | Zig. This was supposed to be a MIDI message router and processor. I got as far as some of the TUI, ran against an actual compiler bug in Zig 0.x and moved on to other things. At least I got to write some Zig, which was fun! |
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dothot | NodeJS. CommonJS hot reloading by purging the require cache on file change. Add some late binding and clever state-management, and Node becomes live-codable. Made obsolete by the prevalence of ESM which still does not support this. |
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redux-helper | React. My attempt at making React Redux less annoying to use. Made obsolete by the prevalence of React Hooks as a preferred state-management mechanism. |
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xmonad-equalspacing | Haskell. I'm quite proud of being able to figure this one out while having absolutely zero idea what I was doing. I miss XMonad! I haven't used it in many years, but I fondly remember its workspace switching behavior when coding on dual displays. |
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postmelodic | C. A musical instrument that chopped samples and let you juggle them over OSC. Another early project I'm proud with, even though it has probably succumbed to bitrot long since I laid eyes upon its glorious mess of a codebase. I did not know the first thing about low-level programming when I did it, and learned tons about how things really work under the hood by writing out my entire though process on paper. |
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Oopsie daisy! My GMail addresses should be considered compromised.
No biggie though - been degoogling anyway. (For the record: GitHub is uncool, too!)
Preferred way to get in touch with me: rustacean@rootshell.is.
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Especially if you're the very cool guy 🤡 - or gal! 🤩 - who somehow managed to attach an unfamiliar Pixel 5 to my Google account and scrambled @alesandar's phone number in my contact list 😉
Do let me know whether you really burned a Google Accounts 0day in my honor, what 😁