Projects
These are some old personal projects that I listed here a while ago. For a more up-to-date list of professional projects, check out my work site.
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Pinboard Bookmachine
April 2012
Converting your Pinboard links, a year at a time, into paperback books, using Ruby and PrinceXML.
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Capistrano configuration for WordPress
April 2012
The Capistrano configuration I use to deploy WordPress sites; as used to deploy this one.
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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
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Clippr
March 2012
A Ruby on Rails desktop utility to process, store, and munge your Kindle Clippings. Work in progress.
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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.
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Nikon Intervalometer
May 2011
A dedicated intervalometer for Nikon DSLRs, built with Arduino.
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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.
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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 (Probably out of date by now).
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Tower Bridge
August 2008
A Twitter bot that lets you know when Tower Bridge is opening and closing. Perennially popular.