I usually struggle to showcase past projects without compromising client confidentiality. To showcase how I work every once in a while I engineer a project out in the open.
A FUSE-based virtual filesystem that presents the entire PyPI ecosystem as a Portage overlay. Mount it, and emerge dev-python/requests works — for any of the 750,000+ packages on PyPI that ship source distributions. No ebuilds to write. No pip behind Portage's back.
Pale Red Dot Dev Log #2 Three working Python scripts—NASA API access, PDS label parsing, coordinate transforms—sat in a folder. They worked. They had comments. And they were about to become a maintenance problem. The issue: standalone scripts capture what…
Pale Red Dot Dev Log #1 Translating a project vision into a structured description is harder than it looks. The ideas exist, but they’re tangled—technical ambitions mixed with unstated assumptions, emotional motivations sitting next to architectural decisions. For Pale Red…
Personal motivation When my child was little, we lived in a desert environment. We had gone camping in the desert many times and knew how the sand would feel and behave when it ran through our fingers, how mountains would…