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

🏡 Here

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

✈️ There

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

🎉 Everywhere

• 🗺 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 and renamed to "IdeaPlace" in late 2022.)

• 🔥 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.