hello
- Alan Grow
- alan grow at gmail
- pgp: 4096R/9B1B5556
- @alangrow
- github.com/acg
- sigil on HN
- acg on lobste.rs
currently
- Endcrawl - Technical Co-founder.
past
- ROLI - Lead Platform Engineer.
- Blend.io (Betaworks) - Software Engineer.
- iLuminate - Technical Co-founder.
- Bloomberg, Microsoft, Siemens, misc. startups
some code
- shellac - Extend Chrome with unix shell commands.
- python-cdb - A Python interface to djb's cdb library.
- deployer - Automated zero downtime deployments.
- lwpb - Lightweight Protocol Buffers for C and Python.
- fsq-run - A filesystem queue processor.
- daemontools-encore - A daemontools-encore fork with better multiprocess service support.
- tinysite - The static site generator used by this site.
- spectool-web - A web viewer for 802.11 spectrum data.
- ...more: github.com/acg
some interaction
- mandelbrot canvas - A zoomable fractal explorer.
- flagboy - A Salt Lake City puzzle game.
- beatdown - Random beat pattern generator.
selected posts
- 2020-12 Slippery Device Names and Portable AMIs
- 2020-08 Matrix Chat in the Terminal with weechat-matrix
- 2020-03 On Remote Work: An Interview
- 2017-06 Shell Quirk: Assignment From a Heredoc
- 2017-05 Blog Refresh: Now With Less
- 2015-06 Dream Deploys: Atomic, Zero-Downtime Deployments
- 2013-03 Turn Vim Into Excel: Tips for Editing Tabular Data
- 2012-11 How to printf a length-delimited string
- 2012-04 Recovering a Dying iPod Disk
- 2012-02 How Many Consonant Pairs Do We Actually Use?
- 2011-11 Mutt Tip: Attach Multiple Files
- 2011-11 Inconsistent split Behavior in Python
- 2011-06 PostgreSQL Tip: Bulk Copying Data Between Tables
- 2011-06 Measuring the Measurers
- 2011-05 Put *Everything* in vi Mode
- 2011-03 How I Lost $100 and Blamed It On cal(1)
- 2011-03 Teasing Out a New Git Repository
- 2011-02 Profiling every command in a Makefile
- 2011-02 Bouncing, Hopping and Tunneling with tcpforward
- 2011-02 A Python Gotcha: References as Default Parameters
- 2007-02 Thinkpad T43 Key Removal, Assembly
- 2006-09 TAI64 For All Time
- 2004-12 Colorful Bash Prompt Generator