Projects
Shimmer
2026
Real-time meeting diagrams powered by WebGPU. Transcribes your meetings on-device and generates evolving Mermaid diagrams as the conversation unfolds.
Slacklinker
2024
A Slack app that automatically creates backlinks between messages. When someone links to a message, the original gets a backlink so you can navigate both directions.
GroupSync
2024
Automatically syncs your groups between Google and Slack. Keep @engineers in Slack and engineers@company.com in Google Groups in sync without manual updates.
Burner Machine
2019
Anonymous cloud VMs paid with cryptocurrency. Pick a machine, pick a location, send ETH, get a desktop in your browser. No signup, no identity.
Links: Blog Post
Classy
Launched 06/09/2014
Classy is a linear algebra based recommendation engine for classes that UW students should take. It works by creating a vector space out of all of the recommendations it has so far seen, and then using a technique called the SVD to reduce the vector space and find similarities between recommendations.
Links: Paper (PDF)
Backito
HackMIT 2014
A decentralized Kickstarter clone. This was at a hackathon in 2014 before Ethereum had shipped. Solidity didn’t exist yet and everything was set up manually. The project won prizes from Coinbase and General Assembly.
Bottle
Launched 01/19/2014
Bottle is a new way to experience places you go. Each picture you take sticks to the location where you took it and is only visible to those nearby.
Update (2019): Bottle was taken down a couple years ago, but it was the same thing as Snap Map, just 3.5 years early :)
FaceOff
Launched 02/12/2013
Judge your friends (anonymously) on Facebook! As if you already don’t.
Links: Facebook App
UpYours
Launched 09/25/2012
UpYours is an image-based leaderboard for all trendy topics. Who’s the best football player in the AFL? Answer on UpYours.
Links: Facebook App
Arithmetic Calculator
Written in 2008
A command line calculator that evaluates arithmetic expressions and functions. Features include factorials, powers, brackets, bracket normalization, polish notation, factorization, user defined fields, equation solving, and advanced error reporting.
Written to learn language grammer/parsing and to help me do my math homework quickly.
Links: GitHub
