I contribute to various free software projects and maintain various pieces of free software. Many of the entries on this page are only of archaeological interest.

I switched from Jekyll to Hugo last week for a variety of reasons. One thing that was missing was a port of the “jekyll-static-comments” plugin that I used to use. I liked it because it saved readers from being tracked by Disqus or other comments solutions, and it required no javascript.

To comment, users would email me their comment following a template attached to the bottom of each post. I then piped their email through a script to add it to the right post. As an added benefit, I could delegate comment spam detection to my mail server.

Shaark is a self-hosted platform to keep and share your content: web links, posts, passwords and pictures.

All of your data can be private, public or both and can be browsed by tags or all-in-one search.

jrnl is a simple journal application for your command line. Journals are stored as human readable plain text files - you can put them into a Dropbox folder for instant syncing and you can be assured that your journal will still be readable in 2050, when all your fancy iPad journal applications will long be forgotten.