About

I'm a software engineer from New Zealand, this site is just a collection of things I have made public that may be useful to you.

Blog posts

• Memory Safeish Hare May 16, 2022
• The Bupstash Garbage Collector February 26, 2021
• Encrypted Backup Shootout January 2, 2021
• Introducing Bupstash November 20, 2020
• Removing Rust Dependency Bloat August 20, 2020
• Introducing hermes June 4, 2020
• DSL for shell scripting May 11, 2020
• JSON in Janet Shell June 8, 2019
• Road to Janet Shell 0.1 May 27, 2019
• Powerful scripting with janetsh May 22, 2019
• Acmeish for vscode March 15, 2019
• Hidden gem - stgit March 1, 2019
• Self Hosting C December 3, 2015
• Calling Conventions Are Hard - Fuzz them! September 20, 2015

Software

Some software I have written that I consider useful or interesting.

"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." - Benjamin Franklin

bupstash

Encrypted backups made easy.

c

An incomplete, but self hosting C compiler.

cmips

An mips processor emulator capable of booting a linux kernel.

coolmsg

A dead simple and well specified message passing protocol, used in some private software.

ddmin

A delta debugging tool, it does automated debugging by shrinking test cases.

godothecorrectthing

An 'Integrated development window manager' script for i3, see a demo here

gslite

A tiny but powerful alternative to the heavyweight gsutil from google for manipulating google storage buckets.

janetsh

A small but powerful new system shell.

sftpplease

An sftp <---> cloud storage bridge.

orderly

Ordered process (re)start, shutdown, and supervision.

terraform-provider-nix

A powerful terraform provider for nix builds and nixos installations.

acmeish

Manipulate vscode buffers with system commands.

hermes

A powerful package and software environment manager.