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Projects

Projects

• Static Site Builder
• Libraries
  • Typst
• Utilities
  • System Maintenance
  • Email
  • Desktop
• Keyboard
• Ashen
• Plugins
  • Kakoune
  • Fish
  • Helix
  • Neovim

I really enjoy programming, especially writing simple utilities to solve common problems. Here, I list project I've written on my own time. For my academic work, please see the research section.

Static Site Builder

Zona

• Static site builder written in Python and optimized for lightweight blogs following minimalist design principles.
• Support for templates, declarative metadata, and configuration files.
• Interprets inline image "alt text" as Markdown, rendered as an image tag.
• In active development, plans for many more features.
• Used to build this website.

Libraries

Typst

• typpres
  • Provides functions to make creating slideshows with polylux more convenient.
• reflib
  • Provides functions to make typesetting label references more convenient.

Utilities

System Maintenance

• AutoYADM
  • Shell utility to automate managing dot files with yadm.
  • Intelligently auto-tracks newly created children of tracked subdirectories.
  • Consists of two Bash scripts; very lightweight.
    • Fish port in the works.
  • I use this daily to keep my dotfiles in sync.

Email

• Email Parser
  • Forked and maintains a Tree-sitter parser for mail files.
  • Extended formal grammar definitions, supporting additional syntax elements & fixing critical bugs.
  • Wrote highlight and text object queries implementing mail support for Helix; contributed the feature upstream.
  • Currently researching how to leverage the parser to contribute mail support to the Harper grammar checker.
• Email Formatter
  • Wrote a lightweight email formatter in Python, intended to format outgoing plaintext emails.
  • Wraps paragraphs at specified column width.
  • Automatically reflows uneven paragraphs.
  • Preserves long words, quoted lines, indented lines, lists, code blocks, and signature blocks.
  • Custom heuristic for preserving two-line signoffs.

Desktop

Repository

• Screen Recording Utility
• Niri Window Status
  • Python server that integrates with Niri to provide a live indicator of windows open on active workspaces.
  • Designed for use with Waybar and similar software.
• Niri Window Picker
  • Simple Python script that spawns a fuzzy picker allowing users to fuzzily select an open window to switch focus to.

Keyboard

• Self-built wireless corne keyboard.
• Colemak-DH (non-QWERTY, ergonomic layout).
• Custom columnar split layout leveraging overloaded modifiers and layers to maximize efficiency.
• Custom ANSI layout intended to make my ThinkPad internal keyboard as ergonomic as possible without conflicting with external keyboards.

Ashen

Ashen

• Original color scheme designed by me.
• Carefully tuned to fill a particular niche.
• Opinionated, clean, muted, and dark.
• Active user base, receives contributions.
• Ported to a wide variety of software, including (but not limited to):
  • Helix (text editor).
  • Terminal emulators (Most popular emulators covered)
  • Firefox
  • CLI tools (eza, bat)
  • TUI tools (lazygit, yazi)

Plugins

Kakoune

• kak-wrap-nav
  • Implementation of Vim's gj/gk (visual vertical navigation) for Kakoune.
  • Contains 1:1 implementation of Kakoune's visual wrapping algorithm in Go (needed to calculate offsets for visual navigation)
  • Work in progress.
• kak-autospell
  • Automatically refreshes and clears spellchecker highlighting.
  • Provides convenience mappings for using built-in spellchecker.
• kak-ashen
  • Official implementation of Ashen for Kakoune.
  • Features toggle-able mode-indicating dynamic cursor with optional EOL variants.
  • Additional tree-sitter support, including Helix capture groups.
  • kakoune-lsp support.
• kak-title-bar
  • Asynchronously renders a bufferlist as the terminal's window title for tight integration with the window manager.
  • Indicates buffer modified states and active buffer.

Fish

• jrnl.fish
  • Small utility for managing daily journal entries.
  • Template support.
• smartcd.fish
  • Adds contextual smart behavior to the cd command.
• Fisher (contribution)
  • Added support for sourcehut plugins and fixed a critical issue with unsafe tilde path expansion.
  • PR

Helix

Mandatory caveat: Helix does not have a plugin system! However, it does allow your to invoke shell commands, making it possible to implement some very hacky functionality.

• hx-typ-zathura
  • Easily open a PDF preview of your current Typst file in Zathura.
• justfile formatter
  • Workaround for formatting justfiles without any dependencies.

Neovim

• Academic.nvim

  • Neovim plugin.
  • Automatically installs and configures an Academic English spelling dictionary.
  • Minimal performance overhead.

• Ashen.nvim

  • Implementation of Ashen for Neovim.
  • Supports numerous plugin integrations.