My Projects

Hobby Projects

Most of what I do these days is on Github, including things too minor to list here.

Several drafts and ideas are floating around in my notes space – stay tuned!

Current

• chew née ltx2any (2012–)

  Yet another L^aT_eX build wrapper, with one or two nifty features.

  This long-time project used to be driven by my own needs, which have – sadly! – mostly gone away after leaving academia. My intention is to clean it up, ⊕As is the way of all code, the more I learn the worse it all looks. give it a proper name, and release version 1.0. While occasional bursts of progress happen, I can not say when (or if, to be honest) that release will happen.

• texlogparser (2018)

  A big thorn in my side was the parsing of L^aT_eX logs; the implementation in ltx2any was abysmal. This project is a complete reimplementation, with something like an architecture, tests, and CI/CD.

• SDKMAN! for fish (2018)

  A port of SDKMAN! to the Fish shell. There is not a lot of code here since all of the heavy lifting is delegated to the Bash implementation. The devil lies in the details.

Concluded

• Tools for Demon Hunters RPG (2016–2017)

  Tools to help GMs and players of the Demon Hunters RPG create useful supplements with little effort.

• bib2tpl (2010–2012)

  PHP library for creating citation and publication lists from BibTeX.

There are a couple of pre-historic projects the code of which never saw the light of the internet, and that is probably for the better. Traces of those are still on the net; happy hunting!

Work Projects

Ongoing

• HealthDataSpace Access Codes (2018)

  HDS Access Codes are an easy yet secure way for patients to get access to medical data: simply enter the 12-digit code you got from your physician.

  • I worked on backend services (Grails, Kotlin) and a library (Java) to access them.

• HealthDataSpace SDK (2017–2018)

  Easy access to the features of HealthDataSpace from iOS and macOS apps, providing file storage with certified data privacy for ehealth apps.

  • I co-designed and -implemented the iOS/macOS SDK (Swift) and supported development of a matching Android/JVM SDK (Java).

  • I gave a talk titled Secure Infrastructure for the Mobile Legion at eHealth Innovation Days 2017.

    – slides – slides with notes –

On Hiatus

• Tech Talks

  From November 2017 to early 2018, I organized a roughly bi-weekly series of knowledge-transfer sessions (internal). I also (co-)held the following sessions:

  • Kotlin – A hands-on introduction (Jan 12th, 2018)
  • Git – Basics, demystified (Dec 1st, 2017)