hi, I’m Alex! here is some work I’m proud of:
I’m currently doing DevRel at Bluesky! You can find other work on my resume.
I’m a frequent speaker at Write the Docs, one of my very favorite conferences.
I previously edited and contributed several tutorials to DigitalOcean.
I created the harvester codebase for FRDR, a Canadian national data portal, with Todd Trann and Kelly Stathis.
I led a project to implement usable, lightweight zero-knowledge encryption of sensitive data for repository deposit, using Hashicorp’s Vault platform, with Jin Zhang.
I only blog when I get annoyed enough about being the only one in the world to have a particular problem; recently, this included using CUDA under bash on Windows, which will happily soon become unnecessary.
I previously wrote up a solution for handling lossy video in Archivematica, which is also now happily obsolete as related work has been upstreamed.
I don’t like when there’s a big gap between what I can do with shell scripts and what other people can do more easily so I made an OCR app called ochre.
I worked with the Software Preservation Network on creating the first draft of their Reference Guide to Emulation.
I’ve spent more time than I tend to remember dealing with retro computing and emulation of all kinds; I like original hardware but I’m no purist.
In an academic context, I’ve written about the use of ZFS-likes in memory institutions and WYSIWYG XML editors for academic publishing.
I developed an interactive fiction game about the Suez Canal starring Klaus Kinski, because if that doesn’t shout “huge audience” I don’t know what would.
Does it beep? I hope it doesn’t beep.
Who’s your dad.de? I think I inadvertently stole the name for this project from demi adejuyigbe.
I made the potable february, a bot that keeps David Berman in my life.
I also made a much stupider bot by training GPT-2 on a corpus of Rodney Dangerfield, Don Rickles, and Borat, with help from Zach Foote. (talk)
In early 2021, I was at the Recurse Center, where I made putz, the Does it Beep browser extension, Eggs and Milk Minder 1.0c, To Bezier is Human, ffmpeg on Ice, and other experiments.
I post too much.
