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Last active / updated: 2026/08/17
Rebuilding an engineering team and fixing an out-of-date and dysfunctional technology platform for a seed-funded tele-health startup.
Last active / updated: 2026/08/16
A comprehensive proposal for a pilot project restoring part of the Bayberry Pond watershed in Lime Ridge, Walnut Creek.
Last active / updated: 2026/08/14
A "Cloud Operations Platform". A system that deploys and operates self-hosted infrastructure.
Last active / updated: 2026/07/23
Explains how I built server system that is resilient to disruption without sysadmin's being able to access the system.
Last active / updated: 2025/01/01
alley-cat is a simple CHICKEN Scheme based static website generator. (Used to create thintz.com.)
Last active / updated: 2024/03/09
A podcast I created and hosted for a few years with over 100 episodes and 100,000 downloads. I focused on teaching listeners how to develop software, coordinate with an engineering team and more.
Last active / updated: 2023/07/01
A case study on rebuilding an inventory managment system for scale without downtime.
Last active / updated: 2023/02/01
In this book I apply a systemic approach to teach the reader how the core of the React web library functions while instructing the user on how to create their own version.
Last active / updated: 2022/06/01
Improving a legacy ecommerce site for improved user and developer experience.
Last active / updated: 2021/01/01
Alpha Centauri Farming is a real-time multi-player recreation of a classic board game with player AI.
Last active / updated: 2019/06/01
A fast, lightweight, and simple CHICKEN scheme websockets library.
Last active / updated: 2018/04/18
The 3L Project was a project devoted to the advancement of computing systems. It focused on improving the safety, security, reliability, and software development process while also providing the flexibility to adapt to any future changes, new research, and new ideas.
Last active / updated: 2018/01/01
A Hash-based Message Authentication Code library for CHICKEN scheme.
Last active / updated: 2016/01/02
A collection of theories on how to fundamentally design a better computing system, grounded in decades of practical experience.
Last active / updated: 2015/08/14
CHICKEN scheme bindings to the email service SendGrid originally built to support the Keep the Records project.
Last active / updated: 2015/06/01
A news aggregator and article ranking webapp designed to provide you with only the news you want read.
Last active / updated: 2015/01/01
A scheme approach to a system shell, written in CHICKEN scheme.
Last active / updated: 2014/11/06
CHICKEN scheme library with bindings to Amazon S3 originally built to support the Keep the Records project.
Last active / updated: 2014/07/10
A Common Lisp library that plugs in to hunchentoot and postgres for easily handling user sessions in web applications.
Last active / updated: 2014/02/14
A Common Lisp library for managing configuration files similar to FreeBSD configuration but in a lisp format.
Last active / updated: 2014/02/01
Common Lisp bindings to the email service SendGrid.
Last active / updated: 2014/02/01
A pure Common Lisp implementation of the C Crypt library. Makes it easy to compute a password hash and automatically upgrade hashes when the preferred algorithm or parameters are changed.
Last active / updated: 2012/08/07
CHICKEN Scheme library for utilizing the Stripe payments gateway originally built to support the Keep the Records project.
