Projects

Projects
- Static Site Builder
- Libraries
  - Typst
- Utilities
- Keyboard
- Ashen
- Plugins
  - 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 Go 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

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

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.