Lancaster, PA · GitHub since 2011 · still mass-producing side projects
// TODO: write a bio that doesn’t sound like a LinkedIn summary
I write Go. A lot of Go. Occasionally I look at other languages and then go back to writing Go. Lately I’ve been building things in Swift/SwiftUI too, which means I now mass-produce side projects in two ecosystems.
A few highlights from the public catalog:
| Repo | What it does | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| health | Health checker for Go services | ⭐ 8 |
| str | The missing Go strings library | ⭐ 7 |
| circuit | A circuit breaker implementation | ⭐ 2 |
These were good ideas at the time. The time has passed.
| Repo | What it was | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| fony | A phony endpoint simulator for integration tests | ⭐ 8 |
| slices | Slice convenience functions, now mostly in the stdlib | ⭐ 6 |
| carto | Map builder | ⭐ 0 |
More repos (for the curious)
| Repo | Description |
|---|---|
| tools | TOOLS, YO |
| state | State machines |
| guid | GUIDs. That’s it. That’s the repo. |
v2026.3 — added Swift to the repertoire. mass of side projects doubles.
v2020.1 — mass-adopted Go modules. mass-deleted vendor/ directories.
v2018.6 — mass-produced Go microservice libraries. mass-starred by literally dozens.
v2011.10 — mass-created GitHub account. mass-committed to a mass of repos.
This README was mass-produced in Lancaster, PA.