Alec Thomas
About
SwapOff is the online home of Alec Thomas.
I live in New York with my beautiful wife Christine and our joy, our baby girl, Eloise.
I am a software engineer with a passion for building robust, scalable systems. I'm currently a cofounder at Wharf. Prior to jumping out of the corporate plane I worked at Twitter as tech lead on their crawling infrastructure, Julpan working on real time search, and Google on Google Wave, among others.
Elsewhere
@alecthomas on Twitter
[email protected] on Email
alecthomas on GitHub
alecthomas on Hacker News
Alec Thomas on LinkedIn
Projects
DevTodo
A hierarchical command-line task manager
DevTodo is a small command line application for maintaining lists of tasks. It stores tasks hierarchically, with each task given one of five priority levels.
OnDir
Automatic script execution
On Dir is a program that automatically executes scripts as you traverse directories at a terminal.
Experiments
Oink
A Python to Javascript translator
Oink differs from similar efforts in that it is very light-weight, and tries to be as thin a layer as possible between Python and Javascript.
Shadows
Projected text shadows using Javascript and CSS.
Who is Reddit
A visualisation of the people of Reddit
A recent AskReddit posed the question "What does Reddit look like?". This is my answer to that question.