Hacks

I am a professional programmer with years of experience. I’ve written fairly substantial portions of a number of products.

I also find myself optimizing my own life or hacking on something for fun. The nice part about hacking on something for fun is that I can try out things that may fail in a particularly amusing fashion.

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PhotoHub
PhotoHub was a little project of mine for photo management. The goal was to write something that's useful, organizes photos the way I want to have them organized, but gets out of my way when I want it to. And it needs to fit into a RAW and huge-film-scan workflow. It was a pretty neat piece of code…

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Lunar calculator
Phase of the moon There are a lot of reasons why we still look at the moon. Some of us (like myself) do night photography . Religions and astrologers ascribe meanings to the moon. Still other people haven't quite gotten over watching the Teen Wolf series of movies and only shave every new moon…

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GLVR
GLVR was a fun project I did a long time ago. The main highlights were: Pretty much the standard sort of features for a 3D engine at the time. Textures, scenes, cockpits, geometry, and resource management. It was mostly intended for open environments like flight simulators and stuff. It was a bit…

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JoyPlug
JoyPlug was a combination lowpass resonant filter and a distortion plugin for Buzz that is controlled by your computer's joystick in real time. It was my mini-project for SigMusic at the Engineering Open House. I learned more than I thought I would. I learned the difference between DirectInput and…