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Featured Projects

HandBrake Subtitles ☆

Extends the popular HandBrake ripping and transcoding tool to enable processing subtitles from files, including the SSA subtitles found commonly in anime.

RDiscount ☆

Converts Markdown text to HTML, in Ruby. Includes many useful Markdown extensions.

Featured Articles

• Feb 20, 2013 » Visual Guide to Programming Language Properties ☆
• Jan 15, 2013 » Things I Wish I Knew Before Working in Industry ☆
• Jan 08, 2013 » Programming is Fun. But What Matters is Solving a Real Problem. ☆

Recent Articles

• Jun 24, 2014 » Submitting a Python App to the Mac App Store
• May 10, 2014 » Reading Japanese text from images
• Feb 17, 2014 » Agda: Second Impressions
• Feb 02, 2014 » What is Color?
• Jan 24, 2014 » Agda: First Impressions
• Nov 25, 2013 » How to move notes from an iPhone to an email account
• Nov 12, 2013 » Impressions of Haskell
• Oct 27, 2013 » Scrivener: An IDE for thinkers, creators, and writers
• Oct 21, 2013 » Shame on the NSA
• Oct 04, 2013 » WA Initiative 522: GMO Food Labeling
• Sep 30, 2013 » Strange Loop 2013 Highlights
• Sep 04, 2013 » Regular Expressions
• Aug 25, 2013 » How I learn new programming languages
• Aug 19, 2013 » Interactive Computing
• Aug 13, 2013 » Fixing a function at runtime without restarting the program
• Aug 04, 2013 » Skills I'm Learning at Splunk
• Aug 03, 2013 » Skills I Learned at Microsoft
• Jul 27, 2013 » Sending email from command line scripts
• Jul 13, 2013 » Error Handling
• Jun 01, 2013 » Handling Text Correctly
• May 28, 2013 » RDiscount 2.1.6 released
• May 12, 2013 » Implicit Partial Application Considered Harmful
• May 11, 2013 » Programming for Perfectionists (P4P): A Book Outline
• May 07, 2013 » Avoid feeling like a port on the Mac
• Apr 30, 2013 » Copyrights and Licenses for Software
• Apr 21, 2013 » Exploring Onionland: The Tor .onion Darknet
• Apr 09, 2013 » Making an Existing Python Program Unicode Aware
• Apr 07, 2013 » Beautiful Code: SQLite
• Mar 22, 2013 » Migrating from BBEdit to Sublime Text
• Mar 16, 2013 » Introducing p4status: A status command for Perforce

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Miscellaneous

Much information related to my activities prior to 2010 can also be found on my old site.