Now that I'm finally off the fence about applying (and yes, that's a relief), my work remains cut out for me in communicating who I am, which means, in large part, what I've done with myself. Having established what I stupidly chose not to do,(i) it's time to have a look at the other side of this coin. I'd better plan it, or it won't happen.
Exact publication sequence and schedule remain to be determined: not that I think this is unimportant, but further work is required in order to make promises I can keep here.
The technical
This is not intended to include every scribbling of code found on my shelves, nor items I haven't yet decided to release for public consumption.
The initial articles in this series will aim to present high-level summaries of the items as they exist currently, with draft sources attached lest I be hit by the proverbial falling piano. In time I certainly wish to move toward full source annotation and signed vpatches.
- MP-WP patches: some smallish cleanups, fixes and additions currently running on this blog. (For a sneak preview, see the live V manifest).
- MP-WP Q&A: lessons learned from my deployment efforts.
- keksum: the Keccak hash function implemented in C as a standalone Unix utility.
- Gales Linux: a cross-bootstrapped, do-it-yourself, fully-static, discriminatory Linux/musl/BusyBox distribution. Includes base configuration files and scripts, a documented build process, and a simple package system with small but practical ports collection.
- Gales Linux patches: I produced a number of patches to both base components and ports; many are self-explanatory but some will warrant discussion.
- gksh, the Gales Public Domain Korn Shell. After trying a number of "easier" options, I identified OpenBSD's
pdksh
fork as the most promising target for terraforming, read a portion of the code, ported it back to Linux, and made a series of cleanups and fixes they'd been neglecting. - musl libc research: a summary of mailing list activity from March - May 2016, then zooming out to a list of major changes in subsequent releases, 1.1.15 - 1.1.21.
- The Real Bitcoin patches: a
getrawtransaction
implementation, and a much-simplified rewrite of the Makefiles for building on Gales. - TRB Q&A: data collected and lessons learned from my efforts in TRB building, configuration, sync, tuning and operation.
- Gales Scheme: an anti-Thompsonistic, almost-R5RS-plus-extensions Scheme system for Unix, striving for simplicity, soundness, minimal artificial restrictions, and strict error checking.
- Scheme library: R5RS is a famously lightweight language spec, which is partly why I like it but has the downside that various modern-day essentials need to be reinvented in order to get anything practical done.
pkg.scm
, a basic package import/export mechanism.critbit.scm
, an implementation of djb's "crit-bit tree" data structure.hashes.scm
, an (IMHO) elegant albeit slow implementation of RIPEMD160, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512 and HMAC algorithms.bit-ops.scm
, the rather less elegant support code for bitwise operations in a specified width.http.scm
, an HTTP/1.0 client.json.scm
: JSON encoding, decoding and traversal.
- Scheme integration: in order to ensure correctness, memory safety and some degree of portability in the core interpreter (which is currently written in C but wants to grow up into self-generated assembly, or possibly Ada, or silicon), inter-process communication via piped subprocess or socket has been my strategy for foreign codebase interfacing.
rsqlite
, an RPC server interface for SQLite.tlsproxy
, an OpenSSL-based TLS client bridge, authenticating the server by explicit RSA public key.wsproxy
, a WebSocket client bridge, implementing the protocol's requisite bit-fiddling in C to provide a simplified protocol for high-level language clients.
- Gales Bitcoin Wallet, an as-yet incomplete attempt at the old wallet air-gapping problem. Progress to date and remaining challenges will be addressed. I'm presently on the hook for getting this to some degree of usefulness by close of 2019.
yrc
, a VT100 IRC client in Python 2.- StatMaps, a no-JS OpenStreetMap tile browser, partly as an exercise in server-side web programming in Scheme.
The not-strictly-technical(ii)
- How I spend my time these days.
- History. I'm not sure what I'll write here, but something to do with my value structure, where I came from and how I got to where I am would seem to be in order.
And that should about cover it for now!
Updated for spelling, formatting & TRB link.
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