Code

I’ve written a lot of code over the years. Some of it is good.

Here are my GitHub details:

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• Gists

Listed below are summaries and explanations of some of the more significant stuff. I tried to explain why I wrote it, how relevant it is, and whether or not you should trust it.

Unless otherwise noted, everything below is public domain. Some of it might be GPL’d at the repository level, which takes precedence. Otherwise, you can do whatever you want with any of this.

If any of it helps you, I’d love to hear about it

Stuff I’m Actively Working On

These are things I’m still fiddling around with – this code hasn’t “settled” in my mind, just yet; there are still open questions.

• Directory Synchronizer

  Format

  C# Library

  Language

  C#

  A C# class to do an efficient one-way sync of files and folders from a source to a target

• Tag Item Collection

  Format

  Web Component

  Language

  JavaScript

  A web component to allow on-page filtering of elements by tag

• Template Block

  Format

  Web Component

  Language

  JavaScript

  A very simple way to template HTML

Stuff I Actually Use or Have Used

This code is currently in use – or has been used in the past – in some production capacity. No promises, but it’s probably not awful.

• Kiwi Document

  Format

  C# library

  Language

  C#

  A library for easily creating structured text documents

• Airtable Object Mapper

  Format

  Class Library

  Language

  C#

  Code for retrieving records from Airtable and dynamically creating C# objects from them

• Relative Date Tag

  Format

  JavaScript Web Component

  Language

  HTML / JS

  A tag which displays the relative timespan from right now to a specified date.

• Table of Contents Tag

  Format

  JavaScript Web Component

  Language

  HTML / JS

  A tag which will display an embedded table of contents based on HTML header tags

• Web Page Tool Tips

  Format

  Sample Code

  Language

  JavaScript

  Some simple JavaScript to create mouseover tooltips

• Jsonata Wrapper

  Format

  Class Library

  Language

  C#

  A class to allow the easy extraction of data from JSON using JSONata

• Jsonata Fluid Value

  Format

  Class Library

  Language

  C#

  A Fluid value to extract data from JSON to query or output into a Fluid template

• Simple Embedded Code Editor

  Format

  JavaScript Fragment

  Language

  HTML / JS / CSS

  A very simple way to turn a TEXTAREA into a code editor(-ish)

• Object Translator

  Format

  Class Library

  Language

  C#

  Code to “translate” a C# object to another object prior to serialization

• Opti CMS Response Providers

  Format

  Opti CMS Add-On

  Language

  C#

  A way to provide alternate response sources for requests in Opti CMS

• Tag Builder

  Format

  Class Library

  Language

  C#

  A C# class for creating HTML tags and structures in code

• Tree Query Parser

  Format

  Class Library

  Language

  C#

  A parser to structure queries of a hierarchical data structure

• SQLite Wrapper

  Format

  Class Library

  Language

  C#

  A handy way to work with SQLite from C#; simplifies a lot of things.

• URL Stemmer

  Format

  Class Library

  Language

  C#

  Code to “normalize” URLs so they can be compared for equality

• Locally-Stored Form Fields

  Format

  JavaScript Snippet

  Language

  JavaScript

  JavaScript that auto-populates form fields with whatever was last submitted.

Stuff That Was Fully-Realized But Just Never Really Took Off

These were things I “finished” and released, but that never really caught on.

(In writing that sentence, I’m struck by the fact that I’ve never really had an open-source project get adopted into even semi-mainstream, and that depresses me a bit…)

• Denina

  Format

  Class Library and Optimizely Add-On

  Language

  C#

  A scripting engine with an integration to Optimizely CMS

• Opti CMS Markup

  Format

  Opti CMS Add-On

  Language

  C#

  An add-on library to integrate “hand-written” HTML, JavaScript, and CSS into an Optimizely CMS site

• Opti CMS Profile Visitor Groups

  Format

  Opti CMS Add-On

  Language

  C#

  Code to manage and query an instance-local data profile about the current site visitor

• Opti CMS Webhooks

  Format

  Opti CMS Add-On

  Language

  C#

  A system for issuing outbound webhooks from Opti CMS in response to content events

Stuff I Was Just Screwing Around With

I play around with a lot of stuff. These are things that I wrote to prove a point or try out a theory, or whatever.

• Contentful Reverse Lookup UI

  Format

  Contentful UI Extension

  Language

  JavaScript (using the Contentful API)

  Contentful sidebar widget that shows entries which link to the entry loaded in the UI

• (Contentful) Webhook Server

  Format

  Web Application

  Language

  C#

  A web application to receive webhooks from Contentful (or something else)

• Conversational Variable Collection

  Format

  Class Library

  Language

  C#

  A system for maintaining a set of numeric variables using plain-language commands

• Extract Fragment Middleware

  Format

  .NET Core Middleware Component

  Language

  C#

  Middleware to extract an element from rendered HTML and return it

• Nemmet

  Format

  Class Library

  Language

  C#

  A tool to expand a string specification to an HTML structure

• Opti CMS Dynamic Templates

  Format

  Opti CMS Add-On

  Language

  C#

  An add-on to create compenentized content templates from the Opti CMS UI

• Parser Combinator Example

  Format

  Sample/Instructive C# Code

  Language

  C#

  An example of a simple parser combinator that can be used to understand the theory

• XML Fluid Value

  Format

  Class Library

  Language

  C#

  A Fluid value to query an XML document in a template

• Opti CMS Dynamic API Endpoints

  Format

  Opti CMS Add-On

  Language

  C#

  An add-on which allows editors to create API endpoints from the UI

Stuff That Got Replaced By Something Better

Things that were fine or sometimes great, but for which I found better alternatives.

• C# Web Server

  Format

  Class Library

  Language

  C#

  A very simple web server for testing things that require a website

The Archives: Really, really old stuff…

Things that have no relevance anymore, but might be interesting as historical artifacts.

• Fleming

  Format

  HTML Application

  Language

  HTML and VBScript

  An obsolete utility that did batch conversions/transforms of XML files

• Microsoft Access CMS

  Format

  MS Access Database with Macros

  Language

  VBA and XSLT

  A Microsoft Access database that was programmed to be a simple CMS