I like to write prose and code and talk to people, and below you can find some of the results of those things.

Community Things

  • Two Page Tuesday, "Six(ish) readers reading two pages of new work followed by social hour(s)," in other words: a really fucking good time. Usually the first or second Tuesday of the month in either Dorchester (odd-months) or Cambridge (even-months).

  • Response, a literary journal I used to put together that I’m going to keep here (a) for visibility and (b) because I’d like to do something again with it… eventually.

Fiction and Computer Lit Things

Interviews

Software and Coding Project Things

For the most up-to-date things, see the pins and repos over on my GitHub page. But some things I’m currently excited about:

asciidocr

An in-progress, but (barely, but) nevertheless! functional asciidoc parser/converter. It’s been fun to work on and I’m excited it’s more or less at the point where I can start "dog fooding" it (i.e., using it myself). Writing it felt very "computer science," which, as someone with a pretty heavy humanities background (especially recently), was a fun experience..

Bart

I’ve had the idea for a terminal-based "writing app" and have finally gotten around to actually trying to build it (okay, this is technically the second attempt; the first one lives in a private repo that shall likely never be shared). There are a lot of missing pieces but it’s fun to bang on, and I really, really like Rust.

Htmlbook to Docx

So I wrote this novel manuscript in asciidoc (my preferred lightweight markup language) that had a lot of (I think necessary) formatting things to do with it, but since there isn’t really a native asciidoc → MS Word workflow (and, as MS Word seems to be what agents and publishers want, which is weird, because the markup is so much more flexible…) I wrote my own, sort of, using the HTMLBook standard, since it’s much easier to parse. Currently working on a Rust rewrite…

Lightweight Markup to PDF Builder (lwm2pdf)

This is a tool I built for myself but I think might be useful to others some day. Note that it is hardly documented at all (code comments yes, README no). It’s still very much in-progress, but you can now install it from PyPI (pip install lwm2pdf).