I co-wrote limchess with a friend of mine for UNC Chapel Hill’s Comp 580 (Enabling Technology). The project is mostly JavaScript and leans heavily on jQuery to bring chess to the accessible world of limited-input devices.

I’ve since written other JavaScript, mostly in small chunks (for example, the Frosthaven Manager has a web server.

I’ve also written non-trivial frontend and backend JavaScript with Vue, React, and Node for various projects at Capital One.

For AP Computer Science (high school), I implemented a game called “Baffles” in Java. One shoots lasers into a grid and guesses where in the grid are located “mirrors” that deflect the laser.

I also wrote a compiler for a subset of Java in Java. So much Java…

There’s more: check out prolog-java.

My current team at work operates mostly Java SpringBoot services.

During my time in a pilot for Principles of Programming, I built a Git terminal and web client in Clojure. The previous year, I wrote a simulator for a type of computer called “Intcode” in Standard ML (in addition to a bunch of other small programs).

I also built loner, an LL(1) checker and context-free-grammar library, in Scala.

I started on an incomplete formal-languages library and application in Clojure, and I have a few more ideas for which SML or Haskell might be well-suited.

I wrote smlnj-parser-style, a small static-analysis library for UNC’s Comp 524 (Programming Language Concepts).

The Frosthaven Manager is a large functional program thanks to GUI Easy.

I wrote many MIPS programs for Comp 411 at UNC Chapel Hill (Computer Organization).

I recently wrote a MIPS interpreter in MIPS for Comp 541 (Digital Logic). More information on mips2 on GitHub.

I proudly present the Frosthaven Manager, a cross-platform desktop application for managing scenarios during the legacy game Frosthaven. While it is functional (we’ve played several years’ worth of Frosthaven games using my application), there are many more feature to build!

I’ve got a few more ideas for useful applications up my sleeve, but this is the first significant one I’ve finished.

Where do I start? I’ll leave my projects for reference, and call loner one of my earliest “good” ones. Loner deals with the LL(1) computation on context-free grammars.

While my contributions to Roslyn probably count here too (they were a patch), I figured I would highlight another small contribution that resulted in a new feature: I added a new prompt placeholder to gitsh.

I’ve also contributed to Git, Vim, and other projects.

There it is, my first “real” open-source contribution. I had been lurking in the Roslyn team’s commits and issues for a while—at the time, I was very interested in the new C# compiler—and I discovered and fixed an issue with the use of shell variables. Veterans will likely recognize the quoting issue being resolved.

I became a maintainer of dracula/vim, which I consider to be a significant open-source project. That doesn’t mean there won’t be others though :).

I presented becoming a git wizard to the Pearl Hacks 2020 Hackathon. It was my attempt to bring git to a beginner-friendly environment and explore the core concepts (immutable trees of information, collaboration, etc.) in a practical way.

I also gave my FUNARCH 2023 talk on GUI Easy to Amperity’s Clojure meetup.

I presented a lightning talk on Vim to other Capital One TDPs.

I also presented a lightning talk on the importance of Git commit messages; specifically, I advocated for details about why changes are being made.

I run weekly Git training at work involving 30-minute guided office hour-style sessions and recorded shorts (5 minutes or less). I cover how to use various Git tools, why they are important, how they are built. I also include social content on open source stewardship, the importance of commit hygiene and best practices, and PR reviews.

I presented a joint paper with Bogdan Popa at FUNARCH 2023 called Functional Shell and Reusable Components for Easy GUIs.