My publicly published software projects can be viewed here on SourceHut. This section provides additional information for the more noteworthy and readily-usable among them.
If you find them helpful, drop me a line to let me know, via aj at this website. Some of them already have communities where they've found a use case, but others have pretty much lived on my hard drive.
While the majority of my professional projects are closed-source and not publicly accessible, I have compiled this document of my leadership experience that describes my roles in several of them, including references for those roles. Potential employers, this may be the part of this page you are most interested in.
Xplorer is a mobile exploration application for iOS and Android. A digitized equivalent to my friend Ben's existing in-person treasure hunts in North Carolina, its goal is to help expand Ben's Triangle Treasure Hunt business in new directions. Ben provided the vision and visual design, while I provided the development for both mobile platforms.
As of April, 2024, we are live in the App Store, and have just launched on the Google Play Store. We are also building out puzzles in both the Raleigh metro area and Columbus.
Languages: Kotlin, Swift
Developed: 2023 - present
C7 is currently an early-stage a 4X strategy game in the Godot engine, and a collaboration with several others. So far, I have been the most prolific code contributor, as well as the de facto project manager, providing most of the structural organization to the project and many of the public-facing updates.
Language: C#
Developed: 2021 - 2022
This is a third-party scenario editor for the game Civilization III. Initially its goal was adding cross-platform compatibility, but over the years it has shifted more to improving the ease of creating scenarios, based on community feedback about what would be most helpful.
Language: Java
Developed: 2009 - 2023
The XenForo Archiver is a program that can create a local archive of a thread on a XenForo forum, including attachments and hotlinked images. Initially used to back up interactive stories that featured hotlinked images prone to going down with their hosts, in January 2022 it was used to create a nearly complete backup of the forums at notebookreview.com (7.7 million posts), preserving that knowledge for posteirity.
It needs source code modification to handle other sites (and some manual CSS work); the focus has been on features and robustness so far.
Language: Java (special thanks to the JSoup library)
Developed: 2018, 2021-2022
Gear City Executive Secretary is a utility for the game Gear City, which provides additional analytics and reporting on top of what's available in-game. View its forum thread including additional screenshots via the header link above.
Language: Java (especially JavaFX), SQLite
Developed: 2021 - 2023
JImageReader is a Java-native image reading program. It focuses on obscure raster image formats, and supports 10 of them currently. If you have an old Windows, DOS, or Atari image you need to read in Java, it might be for you.
This project is available via Maven for easy integration into your projects. See the link above for details.
May be paired with a very simple image viewer if you'd like to try it out.
Language: Java
Developed: 2011-2016, 2019-2020
Gemex is a console-based, cross-platform Gemini browser. Gemini is a protocol that is more secure and flexible than Gopher, but much simpler than HTTP. If you enjoy early-mid '90s, text-based non-commercial web sites, you may enjoy browsing Gemini capsules, and should give Gemex a try. Gemex uses vim-like keybindings, and you probably know from that phrase whether it's the right Gemini browser for you.
Language: Java
Developed: 2020
Real-Time Bus Tracker is a project that lets you set up a web site that tracks bus locations in real time. At one point, I had an actual web site set up where you could use it to track bus locations in Brisbane, Columbus, and Saskatoon.
Language: Java on the server, HTML + JavaScript on the client
Developed: 2018 - 2019
Gopher Archiver archives Gopher sites to your hard drive. Intended for archiving small sites, such as recipe blogs; can be used for sub-sites, such as a user Gopher hole at the Super Dimensional Fortress.
Language: Java
Developed: 2019
Usually I can contribute more by writing software for modding than the mod itself, but that doesn't mean I never dabble in mods...
Europe Expanded is the first map mod for the game Gear City, significantly expanding the amount of detail on the base game's Europe map. Currently on hiatus because it's a lot of work to find accurate historical data, and even more to transform it into the game's format.
Language: XML
Not quite full-fledged programs, these are more properly termed scripts. Not a lot since generally I like to write larger programs, either that or they're highly specific to my use case.
One of my annoyances is sites that display dates only in relative format (e.g. 3 years ago). This Tampermonkey script changes SourceHut todo dates to display in absolute format (e.g. July 31, 2017) beyond a short threshold where relative might be useful.