David Ashby is an experienced programmer, book-hoarder, and all-around curious person living in New York City.

🏡 Here

• 📜 blog
• 👾 git
• ♊️ gemini
• 📚 personal library
• 🛹 CHISELEDSPAM
• 📅 September, 1993
• 🌎 alt.pave.the.earth FAQ

✈️ Elsewhere

• 📨 delta.mu.alpha@gmail
• 🐤 alazyreader@twitter
• 🐘 lazyreader@mastodon
• 📸 alazyreader@instagram
• 📌 alazyreader@pinboard
• 🔐 3F8F 9A6D EF46 F59D@keybase

🎉 Fun

• 🗺 NYCBookstores

  An interactive map of New York City's independent bookstores that I maintain. I've also tried to visit and write capsule summaries about as many of them as I can.

• 📜 Papers We Love

  I'm on the organization committee for Papers We Love New York City, the original chapter of the worldwide Papers We Love community. I also help organize the yearly Papers We Love conference in St. Louis.

  I've also given two talks at PWL meetups:

  • SHAmwow, a lightning talk on the SHA256 standard, FIPS 180-2.
  • Understanding Real-World Concurrency Bugs in Go, a streamed talk about the paper of the same name.

🧶 Open-Source Projects

• ⌨️ Server projects

  Software I wrote that powers pieces of this server.

  • library, serving library.yetaga.in.
  • castor, serving gemini.yetaga.in.
  • nyc-bookstores, serving nycbookstores.org.

• 🐹 Go libraries and tools

  Various itch-scratching go projects:

  • libyear, a binary project for resolving and computing the libyear of a go modules project.
  • go-openlibrary, which wraps the archive.org Open Library API.

• 🖨 Prusa tools

  I've written a couple of tools for working with Prusa-brand 3D printers:

  • prusa-connect-exporter, a prometheus exporter for the prusa-connect JSON telemetry API.
  • prusa-connect-local, written to solve an issue with the built-in HTTP server on the firmware having weird issues serving the static files for its web interface.

• 🧑‍💻 Languages

  One of these days, I'm going to actually write a useful programming language, but until then here's some loosely-written attempts:

  • prosper, a FORTH-ish language that sort of bogged down when attempting to build out the metaprogramming capabilities.
  • jlox, most of a java interpreter for the Lox programming language from Crafting Interpreters.

💵 Work

• 🧑‍💼 Sagesure

  I work as a senior engineer on the Sagesure insurance platform, writing Go and Java and working to improve security and reliability.

• 🚰 Spigit

  I briefly worked as a system administrator on the Kindling product at Spigit, and on projects for the Spigit innovation platform. (Spigit was acquired by Planview in late 2018.)

• 🔥 Kindling

  I was a support engineer turned system administrator and eventually a developer, working across the entire stack on various projects. The company was purchased by competitor Spigit in early 2017.