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San Francisco

Tom Preston-Werner

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@mojombo

Preston-Werner has shipped practical utilities across Ruby, Erlang, and systems work—from the natural language date parser chronic to testing frameworks like fixture-scenarios—with 14k+ stars across his open source projects.

Chronic. I made software that turns everyday language into exact dates.

3.3k

Pyberry. I built a tool that shows you what your systems are actually doing.

13

Omniship. I built one way to track packages across all major shippers.

39

BERT. I wrote a tool that translates Erlang data into a format other systems can read.

101

TomDoc. I wrote a specification for code comments that humans and machines both understand.

338

Yaws. I built a web server that handles massive traffic without breaking.

42

Glowstick. I made real-time graphs that update as your data changes.

36

Octobeer. I built software that shows what beer is on tap in your kegerator.

28

Fixture Scenarios. I made a way to bundle test data with setup code for reuse.

19

Egitd. I built a tool that shares git repositories over a network.

115

Asteroids. I made a game you can play inside your code editor.

95

Fakegem. I made a test package to check Ruby code building.

4

Tpw. I made a tool that runs code directly in your web browser.

701

Erlectricity. I built a bridge that lets Ruby and Erlang applications work as one system.

6

ErlanGit. I wrote a Git reader for the Erlang programming language.

74

Clippy. I made a button widget that copies text to your clipboard.

938

BERT. I wrote a translator between Ruby and Erlang data formats.

210

SF Vegetarian Restaurants. I made a guide to vegetarian restaurants across San Francisco.

143

Mustache. I built a template engine that separates design from data.

248

V8. I wrote the engine that executes JavaScript code in browsers and servers.

19

Mojombo. I built a blog that stores posts on GitHub so I never lose data.

944

Cubesixel. I made a pixel font in a 7x7 square size.

29

Git Basics. I made a presentation that teaches Git version control from scratch.

36

Endo. I made a test project for exploring new ideas.

4

Scoped. I built a tool that manages access permissions across multiple services.

11

GitHub Flavored Markdown. I built a better formatting system for writing on GitHub.

190

RakeGem. I made a lightweight way to package and release Ruby code with just Rake tasks.

130

Conceptual Algorithms. I wrote plain-English explanations of how algorithms actually work.

6

Erlectricity. I built a bridge between Ruby and Erlang so they can send messages to each other.

354

BERTRPC. I built a Ruby tool for sending messages to remote services.

171

Erlang Pipe. I wrote a pipe tool that lets you chain steps together in Erlang.

20

Rebar. I built a bridge that lets Ruby code run inside Erlang.

65

Redwood. I built a tool that handles an entire website from start to finish.

4

Vanhelsing. I made a memory watcher that shows you live graphs of your Ruby program.

24

Primer. I made a tool that draws shapes and animations on web pages easily.

284

Ernie. I built a server that lets you mix different programming languages in one system.

471

Laptop Pages. I made a website that displays laptop information clearly.

9

Blog Archive. I kept the old source files for my blog in one place.

7

ProxyMachine. I built a smart routing proxy that reads incoming data and sends it to the right place.

589

Gollum. I made a wiki system that stores pages inside your code repository.

76

GitHub Helper. I made a command-line tool that simplifies everyday GitHub tasks.

1.1k

Grit. I built a tool to access Git repositories as code objects.

2k

God. I built a tool that automatically restarts crashed server programs.

2.2k
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