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’m hitting some web UI at work with Vue, though.

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.

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.

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.