Computers and Software

I’ve been coding since the 1980s, starting with BASIC and dBASE/Clipper, followed in the 1990s with x86 assembly and C for osdev, then C++ in the 2000s for networking, then Python in the 2010s for open source data tooling. Along the way I’ve written a few Forth interpreters for embedded development, and dabbled in Javascript to make some data games.

I actively maintain the following projects which might be of interest:

VisiData: data exploration in the terminal
DarkDraw: text art editor in VisiData
unzip-http: unzip individual files from remote archives
gxd: crossword puzzle database

Please support me on Patreon if you use any of them!

Over my software career I’ve worked at companies large and small on a variety of projects. Here you can see some non-commercial software projects that I’ve made.

Data scavenger hunts and puzzles Where in the Data? (2022)

VisiData is an interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease. VisiData (2016)

FrotzOS (2013)

The Century Arcade (2013)

Drawing a house on a ↑3 computer Using a TRS-80 at age 4 (1980)