• Pinboard Bookmachine

    April 2012

    Converting your Pinboard links, a year at a time, into paperback books, using Ruby and PrinceXML.

  • Capistrano configuration for WordPress

    April 2012

    The Capistrano configuration I use to deploy WordPress sites; as used to deploy this one.

  • Keynote HTML Exporter

    April 2012

    Ruby command-line tool to take a Keynote presentation and turn it into HTML. You supply an ERB template, and the script takes care of the rest. It’s how I make the talks pages of this site. It uses rb-appscript to control Keynote through Applescript.

  • Clippr

    March 2012

    A Ruby on Rails desktop utility to process, store, and munge your Kindle Clippings. Work in progress.

  • Markov Chocolates

    January 2012

    An infinite box of chocolates, describing themselves in purple prose on Twitter. The first of several of my Markov-chain-powered bots.

  • Nikon Intervalometer

    May 2011

    A dedicated intervalometer for Nikon DSLRs, built with Arduino.

  • Noticings

    August 2009

    A game about going a bit more slowly through the city and paying attention to the world around you. Made with Tom Taylor. Now closed, but it has begat a great little mobile Flickr uploader.

  • Stickrs

    October 2008

    Making surreal MOO stickers from your Flickr photographs. This projected added support for stickers to the “Ruminant” Ruby library for working with the MOO API. (Probably out of date by now).

  • Tower Bridge

    August 2008

    A Twitter bot that lets you know when Tower Bridge is opening and closing. Perennially popular.