Projects
I recharge best away from a screen, but here are some toy apps and pet projects I’ve made or contributed to. For a more complete picture of my extracurricular coding, go poke around on my Github.
Bird Gen (play it!)
(Javascript)
What: generate new and innovate bird names to impress your friends!
Why: eating breakfast at my sweetie's house, I was looking at the varyingly silly names on the "Birds of New England" poster and was like "psh, naming birds isn't so hard, I could do that!"
When: Feb 2021
Gay Bingo (play it!)
(HTML/CSS, Javascript)
What: gay (specifically WLW) bingo---because sometimes an idea sticks in your head and won't leave. Give it a shot, it's interactive! (Styling is for chumps, right?)When: Sept. 2019
XKCD Binge
(Javascript)
What: a Chrome extension to make browsing XKCD easier -- I wanted to reread XKCD from the beginning, so I threw together an extension to enable me to do all of my browsing from my keyboard. Get it on the Chrome Web StoreWhen: May 2017
Carol Collection
(Python, Lilypond, LaTeX)
What: I wanted a book of all of my favorite Christmas carols to sing with friends. I ended up with this project, which takes a number of Lilypond files and build them into sheet music, then compiles them into a LaTeX pdf for easy printing and sharing.
When: December 2017
Why: because I have a deep and undying love of Christmas carols
Thumbnailer
(Python, using Pillow)
What: utility to make thumbnails of your images. I was working on a freelance web dev project and needed thumbnails of all of the images, so instead of spending 30 minutes in PhotoShop, I spent three hours writing this. Time well spent?
When: March 2015
Gravity (play it!)
(Javascript, codeheart.js)
What: a gravity-bending platformer exhibiting the finest of programmer art, written for the 2014 Williams College Game Jam. Want to know more? Play it here!
When: January 2014
Punbot
(Python, NLTK, Zulip API)
What: a Zulip bot that lurks until presented with an opportunity to make a quote-unquote "pun" of the form: "Parse 'er? I hardly know 'er!" Triumphantly launched after completion and then promptly retired, as (much to my surprise!) it turns out that jokes... get old?! Who knew?
When: Fall 2014 (Recurse Center)