I work on a number of "mad scientist" projects whenever the fancy strikes me. I've probably used that idiom incorrectly. I re-invent things because it's fun. I also find that it's a great way to viscerally learn why certain approaches are taken; running into the pitfalls and mistakes on your own then crawling your way back out of the mess. It gives an excellent perspective.

Motorcycle Projects

I have a few fantastic little motorcycles, let me tell you all about them!

• Motorcycle Project Page

Project Ideas

Massive disaster of ideas

I need to figure out a better way to log new ideas. I had hoped that keeping a markdown page of them in git would help but... nope.

Python Projects

I've enjoyed working in Python more than any other language I've yet run across. Thus it's unsurprising that I use it whenever there's an opportunity to do so!

• koji-smoky-dingo CLI client plugin for the koji build system
• python-javatools Utilities for inspecting and diffing Java bytecode
• python-sibilant LISP dialect that compiles to Python bytecode. Currently in stasis while I write a custom bytecode interpreter for it.
• python-mapbind Left-hand assignment-aware binding wrapper
• python-promises Container and transparent proxy promises for Python
• python-brine Advanced function pickling features for Python
• python-values The values type from Sibilant, made generic
• python-spexy Ridiculous hack, LISP-like preprocessor for Python. This is what inspired me to work on Sibilant.

Old Stuff

Interests change as time goes by, and sometimes you can't keep a project alive once it's no longer being used.

Bukkit Plugins

I've put together a number of Bukkit plugins that we used to employ on our server, which has been offline for years now.

• bukkit-utils Utility classes used by the rest of my plugins
• bukkit-worlds Simplified plugin for providing multi-world loading
• bukkit-dispenser Adds features to the Dispenser block. For the most part this is now obsolete, as many of these functions made it into minecraft-proper.
• bukkit-places Adds locations, graveyards, and home and visit commands
• bukkit-weather Adds weather control, with per-world configuration
• bukkit-warp Makes nether portals into flexible teleporters
• bukkit-want Adds convenient names and aliases for giving items to players, including packs of multiple items.

Warcraft Addons

Some ultra-tiny addons for World of Warcraft, ~~distributed here for friends~~, not hosted elsewhere. TODO: store these somewhere and maybe revive them one day.

• Whose Aura Is This? - adds caster names to the buff/debuff tooltip
• Remove Blizzard Frames - removes the default Blizzard raid frames and boss frames

Misc Old Projects

• Pidgin - I used to contribute to the Pidgin project, specifically in the arena of Sametime support.
• Meanwhile - This was the library for communicating with a Sametime server. Reverse engineered from packet captures. Good times, but alas I no longer have to use Sametime, so I no longer am driven to keep this up-to-date.
• JaMUD - Back in 2000 I used to hack at writing a MUD server. It never got very far, but it was entertaining.

Changelog

2023-10-15

removed mentions of Google Code, which has been dead and burried for quite some time. Need to figure out what to do with the old WoW addons, since they aren't currently in git.

2014-01-01

original publication