Hello, and welcome to my website. This is a vaguely organized collection of things that are of interest to me, in addition to random jokes or projects that I found amusing. Most of them are probably nonsensical except to a small group of people, but I do have some pages that I think are of interest to those who have similar hobbies to myself.
As for my day job, I work as a software engineer for a fairly well-known Midwest US engineering firm. I'm afraid nothing of here relates to anything I do at work in the slightest, which is probably both a relief and a disappointment to them.
Emulation
One of my hobbies is creating emulators for older video game systems. To date I have created Chip-8 and Game Boy/Color emulators in Rust for desktop and browser, and ported the Chip-8 emulator to Pico-8 in Lua. I've also written a short book on both Chip-8 and Game Boy emulation with Rust.
Blog
I enjoy tinkering with various tech-related topics, and I occasionally document my adventures in a blog posts. These include things like travel blogs, modding vintage video game hardware, and complaining about calendars.
Discord bots
In my spare time, I am active in several servers on the chat application Discord. To assist with managing some of these servers, I've made several bots to perform various utilities, such as moderation functions, XP and level tracking, assigning user roles, and more.
- Bouncer - Moderation bot
- Governor - XP and leveling bot
- View the unofficial Stardew Valley server's XP leaderboard
Video Game Modding and Hacking
Combining my interests in making games and emulators, I've made a few mods and romhacks for commercially existing games. These are both traditional patches to games, as well as some browser utilities to allow a greater degree of control to the modifications.
- Kirby's Adventure Randomizer - A browser utility to generate randomized Kirby's Adventure ROMs for NES.
- Pokemon Picross - Reduce Time Penalty - A romhack for the unreleased Pokemon Picross for GB to reduce penalty time.
- Kirby Color Editor - A browser palette swap editor for several Kirby games
- Pokemon Emerald - Oops All Shinies - Reverses the calcuation for which Pokemon will appear shiny, allowing you to play the game with almost entirely their alternate forms.
- Kingdom Hearts III - Formchange Skin Pack - Change Sora's default appearance to any of the Formchanges in the game
Misc. Projects and Experiments
In addition to some of the more organized projects I've completed, I've also worked on an assortment of miscellaneous projects that don't fit into other categories. Here are a few of my favorite.
- Utilities for
.ipspatch files - Utility plug-in scripts for the Aseprite pixel art editor
- Generate images in the style of Ecco the Dolphin
- Basic Markdown to HTML parser written in Nim
- Tool to convert
.cbzfiles to use.aviffor images - A recreation of the Living Worlds color cycling effect in Rust
- Hexdiff - A simple binary comparison tool written in Rust