The most important thing about this profile is I'm not really here that much. Well, my work goes here (you probably can't see it), but my personal projects live on infrastructure I control.
On my website you can read more about me, my homelab, how to write a queue in Erlang, or other miscellaneous topics.
Infra: infra/servers
My homelab is a couple of mini PCs, a computer that I built, and a VPS in someone's cloud. Like most well-organised servers, they are held together by too much YAML, which is exactly the case for me.
My one-and-a-bit node setup doesn't really call for anything too exotic, so it's a lot of hand-written Ansible playbooks.
Dotfiles: mpwb/dotfiles
I've been maintaining my dotfiles repository for well over a decade now. Every few years I dive back through history and find things a past version of me did that I now find neat and clever. But for the most part, this is just a snapshot of how my computers work. I'm extremely fussy about that.
(n)vim-mbnotes: mpwb/vim-mbnotes
I had some free time over a holiday, and wanted a notes system that truly worked for me. So I built it in vim9script, which was a lot of fun but probably a mistake. Even more so because last year I switched (back) to Neovim, which doesn't support vim9script. I have some plan to port this to Lua one day, but I haven't gotten to it yet.
I went arguably way too hard with this, so it has a comprehensive help text, which is where I'd recommend you go if you're curious.
See some (much) older projects on my Github
One thing my Github has that won't be on my Forgejo instance is a whole bunch of old stuff.
Back when Magento 2 was new, Docker was only slightly less new. Containers have been an interest of mine for a long time, and I wanted to use them for work because I was equally sick of non-compliant local environments and virtual machines.
While old as hell, I'm still pretty proud of this! I was running non-privileged containers, integrated debugging, all the additional software in the stack, separate networks, custom images, the works. Truly ahead of its time!
YouTube Sync (February 2017)
For his PhD, my dad was experimenting with recording improvised concerts from different perspectives, and analysing the difference in audience experience based on that. Over an evening we developed a little web application that he could configure to allow easy switching between the different recording points.
The software takes a collection of time-synced videos hosted on YouTube along with co-ordinates of the other cameras visible from within any given frame. We rendered buttons that switched between them with timestamped links.
JQuery Data (November 2014)
I wrote a blog post on a previous incarnation of my website that dove into the implementation of the venerable jQuery's Data API. I had a lot of fun doing this, and even went as far as writing my own test runner for it.
I should corral all of my writing into one place some time, but until then, the accompanying post can be read on the Wayback Machine.
Psym (March 2014)
I wanted to build a symbolic mathematial engine! Something that could do pretty-printed calculations. I never got to building an actual parser, but the structure took inspiration from JSX and other similar technologies.