Software

I like programming. You get to build something from start to finish as well as share it with your friends.

Some sorts might be interested to read my blog about technology. I also write a blog about internals of Chromium (Google Chrome).

Recent projects

These days, I've been pushing most of my code to my github. Many are only useful to me; here are some of the more popular ones:

• ninja -- a small build system similar to Make with a focus on speed

• c-repl -- a C read-eval-print loop (really!).

• webtreemap -- treemaps implemented using HTML and JavaScript (see also bloat, a visualization of binary size)

• lmnopuz -- multiplayer realtime web-based crosswords.

• arabic -- a transliteration bookmarklet for typing Arabic on the web.

Some other projects you may have heard of

I was an early contributor to LiveJournal, and later employee. I have fond memories, like carrying a server in my lap on the bus to go to LJ's datacenter. Here's some LiveJournal-related software.

I reverse-engineered some of the Napster protocol and wrote one of the first third-party clients. I was soon hired to help design a Napster clone called Scour Exchange. Few people even remember these sites now.

GtkSpell is a spell-check-as-you-type extension used by many GTK programs. I was happy to see it, via Gaim, in a movie.

On a drunken dare I made a Windows-native theme engine for GTK. It eventually morphed, after removing all my bad code, into the standard Windows GTK theme.

I wrote some moderately popular Greasemonkey userscripts. One made it into a book.

According to ohloh, I'm one of the top contributors to Chromium (Google Chrome).