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Projects
Below is a collection of software, artwork, and presentations which I have produced over the past few years. All work, unless otherwise noted, carries a free license so that others may benefit from my efforts. See each project for details.
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C
libtdd
libtddis a minimalist testing framework for C projects, inspired by the Golang standard library testing package.Written for use in C-based coursework at the University of Guelph.
Go Rc shell HTML5 JavaScriptTokumei
Tokumei is a simple anonymous micro-blogging platform. Create and browse content without fear of your activity being traced back to you.
Created with Kyle Farwell.
Goimgrep
imgrepis a grep-like utility for Unixes, used for finding images that contain text snippets. It uses Tesseract OCR and pattern matching to extract and index text.Submitted to Hack the North 2017 with Ivan Zhang.
Node.jsstegamsg
stegamsgis a "steganographic messaging" platform. It allows users to anonymously send secret messages encoded within PNG formatted bytestreams.Submitted to MHacks X with Ace Parent.
Pythonpyapa
This is a module for Python3 that checks for common errors and suggests corrections in the APA style for scientific writing.
Originally built for use within the IFS project.
Python Node.jsIFS
The Immediate Feed Back System (IFS) is a web application for student programming and essay writing assessment. I developed and improved features for it as part of my 2017 undergraduate research assistant-ship in my first year at U of Guelph.
Created with Jamey Fraser, Dan Gillis and Judi McCuaig.
Android Javadecayboard
Built in about 4 hours for Terrible Hack Waterloo in November 2016, this prank keyboard randomizes your Android key-layout and destroys random keys on every tap.
HTML5 JavaScriptÅngst-RÖM's RAM-page
This is a light-hearted puzzle game that was built with HTML5 and JavaScript for the Ludum Dare 36 Game Jam. Play as Ångst-RÖM and fight for software freedom as you downgrade all your hardware!
Created with my friends at Gelato Labs.
HTML5 JavaScriptTIYHSLOAUGS
"The Inglorious, yet Highly Stimulating Life of an Underpaid Graduate Student" is a silly call-centre game that was built with HTML5 and JavaScript for the Ludum Dare 33 Game Jam. Provide terrible tech support and each sweet cash to spend on ePay.
Created with my friends at Gelato Labs.
Pythonespeak sings
Espeak is a standard speech synthesis program available for GNU/Linux and other operating systems. I thought it might be funny if it sang some songs. This Python script lets it do just that
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C++ unmaintainedhuffpuff
This high school project was an exercise in which I explored how Huffman coding — a method of lossless compression — worked on plain-text files. A similar approach can be taken with other types of data.
C++ unmaintainedLarge Number Arithmetic
There are times when an
unsigned long longsimply doesn't cut it. You need to use numbers that are maybe hundreds of digits in length. This 11th grade school project is the beginning of a C++ large number arithmetic library. -
25 Aug 2020Rethinking Firefox I/O: The 2020 Edition
This lightning talk was given at the end of internship with Mozilla in the summer of 2020. In this talk, I presented a history of the Firefox browser architecture and how we're changing the File I/O subsystem to get ready for Project Fission.
29 Mar 2019WSRC 2019 — Bridging the Digital Divide using MANETs in the Circumpolar North
Western Student Research Conference was held in London, ON on 29 March 2019. We presented our work exploring the viability of mobile ad hoc networks as an alternative to fixed communication infrastructure in Northern Canada.
22 Aug 20182018IMW — eNuk: using mesh technology to improve climate change monitoring
The 2018 Indigenous Mapping Workshop was held in Montréal, QC from August 20-23. The eNuk research team, and their partners at Left Inc. were invited to deliver this keynote to explain how we are using mobile mesh technology to improve connectivity and monitoring in the community of Rigolet, Nunatsiavut.
06 Jan 2018Gloom, Doom, and the Internet — Starcon 2018
Starcon is an annual software engineering conference hosted at the University of Waterloo. I presented my talk "Gloom, Doom, and the Internet", highlighting some prevalent anti-patterns in web development, and explaining privacy-oriented designs.
04 Aug 2017CUPS 2017
A poster submission for the CPES Undergraduate Poster Session, outlining the Immediate Feedback System — a web application I developed as part of my research assistantship at the University of Guelph.
19 Oct 2016Tokumei — GCC
A presentation on online anonymity, Tor, and Tokumei — an online anonymous microblogging platform. Talk prepared by Keefer Rourke for the Guelph Coding Community at the University of Guelph, ON, Canada.
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SVG free desktopLa Capitaine
La Capitaine is an icon theme designed to integrate with most modern Desktop Environments and is inspired by recent macOS and Material Design guidelines. Bring some life to your boring GNU/Linux desktop!
SVG xcursorCapitaine cursors
This is an xcursors theme inspired by macOS and based on KDE Breeze, designed to pair well with my icon theme, La Capitaine. Builds are available for GNU/Linux and Windows.
SVGPastel Skulls
This is a (totally useless) high-resolution art project that plays with line and colour. It's a result of messing around too much in Inkscape when I was bored one day — powered by a bit of inspiration from Andy Warhol.
SVGAvatar kit
This is an SVG resource kit for building modern, material-design-inspired avatars for contact details, social media profiles, etc. Based on work by Alex Lionne.