My side projects span machine learning, programming languages, personal analytics, browser extensions, code editors, and personal tools to support my workflows. I work on projects for fun, to learn, or to solve a specific problem I have. More recent projects are listed first.
An experimental PR to fastcore (the core library powering the fastai deep learning framework), that replaces its custom type dispatch system with plum-dispatch. Both bring Julia's multiple dispatch into Python using type annotations and decorators.
A browser extension for the EasyEquities investment platform built with TypeScript, React, React Router, and Mock Service Worker (to develop against a mocked version of their API).
This started with frustration that EasyEquities didn't provide a single view of my holdings across all of my investment accounts, nor of my time-weighted returns. I made good progress but stopped building this since there's no public EasyEquities API, and sending handcrafted requests to the internal API of my investment platform seems like a bad idea!
A tiny command-line tool to quickly open URLs related to your repos. I made this for a smoother experience while working on a manyrepo codebase.
Save your personal data from MyFitnessPal to a SQLite database. I occasionally use MyFitnessPal to track my weight and calories. Inspired by the dogsheep movement, I built this to afford personal analytics on my own data.
Save your personal data from CircleCI to a SQLite database. I threw this together for a quick analysis on build times at a former workplace, which we could then follow up with easy build pipeline optimisations.
An attempt at reverse engineering ncode paper technology. I got all the way down from what looked like dots on paper to a matrix which I needed to decode. Perhaps I'll get back to it some day!
An experimental framework for creating structure-aware editors. The idea was that actions (e.g. move left, insert character) would be aware of the context surrounding the cursor location within the (tree-)structured document, thus would have slightly more intelligent behaviour.
For example, given a document ((foo)|, where | represents the cursor, and where ((foo)) is a known symbol represented some BlockRef object, inserting ) would know to create a BlockRef object in the internal tree structure.
Like a hackier version of tree sitter.
The vision was to use this framework to create a Roam clone using an enhanced markdown-like syntax for personal use.
Functional hierarchical zipper (tree cursor), with navigation, editing, and enumeration.
A port of clojure.zip to JavaScript that I intended to use in Romulus.
Tiny command-line tools for working with Roam graphs.
A tiny Roam parser built with Clojure and instaparse. I also live tweeted the entire development process.
Keypoint-based alignment of two grayscale images using ORB and RANSAC via skimage. This was completed as a take-home assignment for a job application, so I limited the implementation to a max of 8 hours.
Minimal terminal text editor written in Python and curses. I wrote a corresponding step-by-step tutorial as well.
I enjoyed taking part in AoC for years 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
An Alfred workflow to open GitHub repo URLs via a local workspace directory. No GitHub API access needed!
Seamless logging for pandas dataframe operations, inspired by tidylog.
We used pandas in production extensively at a former workplace, and our code often ended up overwhelmed with logging logic.
With pdlog it's simple: instead of calling, say, df.dropna(), call df.log.dropna() and it'll log <pdlog> dropna: dropped 1 row (17%), 5 rows remaining.
A basic implementation of neural networks from scratch. Shortly after my encounter with reinforcement learning (see below), I realised that deep learning was an important precursor and shifted my studies there.
Re-implementing sections of Sutton and Barto's Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction. My first inspiration in AI was the possibility that a computer could play games better than the best humans! I was determined to build one of these AIs myself.