Jashank Jeremy

Projects

These are my kludges to get things done. I use many of them, if not all of them, on a daily basis.

freespace.c – allocates a chunk of memory, dirties it, then exits. This avoids a ZFS space problem and OS X memory leaks. source

A few little oddments I’ve written for fun.

watermarker – uses Netpbm to watermark a series of JPEG images easily on OS X; fairly trivially un-hackable to work on other *NIXes. source, app bundle (10.6+)

These are projects that I’ve hacked on, and in some cases, my hackings have been accepted as contributions.

I have contributed patches to Blender to make it build on FreeBSD.
I have contributed patches to the FreeBSD project, mostly in the Ports tree. I have also ported software.
XML::Toolkit – a framework for marshalling XML documents to Perl classes (through Moose) and back. I tidied documentation and wrote a walkthrough based on Scrivener. GitHub: view original / view my fork
uzbl – a light-weight UNIX philosophy-adherent web browser, based on WebKit. I did work on merging FreeBSD-specific patches in. GitHub: view original / view my fork
osx2x – a utility akin to x2x for OS X, allowing one to remotely control the keyboard and mouse on remote X servers. I hacked it to support Dvorak keybindings. GitHub: view original / view my fork
punchcard-plot – a tool to visualize the time distribution of any events. I rewrote it in Ruby and generalised it to be non-Git-specific. GitHub: view original / view my fork
PySide – I did work on porting PySide to FreeBSD with Curt ‘tigersharke’ Dox. Our work was deprecated in favour of another port. view on Google Code
Jekyll – Tom Preston-Werner’s amazing static blog engine. I routinely hack the codebase to do what I want. view on Github
Bootstrap – the awesome lightweight web framework. I’ve done some occasional hacking on it, mainly the build system. view on Github

None, currently.

apsc – the Advanced Postal Sorting Centre, a simple IMAP mail sorter. Now unmaintained because I now do tagging, not sorting, of mail. view on GitHub
Replacing Postfix with Sendmail on Mac OS X Lion – a walkthrough on replacing Postfix with Sendmail in OS X Lion; it should also work with Leopard and Snow Leopard, although some tuning may be necessary. YMMV. Unsupported: I gave up on this configuration after I reinstalled OS X on my Mac, and I never was a particularly big fan of it; I only used it because I was given an allegedly “functional” configuration.