The Hugo Awards ¶

I am the lead, and nearly only, developer of the software package used by the Worldcon to collect Hugo Award nominations and votes since 2024, called NomNom

NomNom is a Python / Django project that I wrote to support the Hugo Awards for the Glasgow 2024 Worldcon , and has been used since for the Seattle in 2025 Worldcon and will be for LACon V .

Contributions are always welcome.

wandering.shop ¶

I am the primary system operator for the wandering.shop Mastodon instance ; I was a random user, but when the original hosts decided they were done with it, and considered shutting it down, I stepped in to take over funding and operating it. Since then, with the help of our members, we are roughly self-funded and supported, and mostly my work is in making sure the database backups work (they do!) and ensuring the bills are paid (they are!).

Hamcrest for Python ¶

hamcrest.org

While this project’s main model is the Java Hamcrest library, the Python library is still in active use as well. I started using Hamcrest when I was first learning Python, and ended up actively using it enough I fell into maintainership. It’s a low-frequency task, but over the time I’ve been the lead maintainer, my collaborator on it ( Simon Brunning ) have kept it modern, type-safe, and functional.

Small Projects ¶

Tailscale Stuff ¶

I wrote a tailscale s3 proxy to let me create a tailscale webserver backed by an S3 bucket. I use this to serve all the various documents pertaining to my house, like warranty information etc, as a sort of “house manual”.

Before tailscale serve became a real thing, I used tsnet inspired by Xe Iaso to write tailscale-reverse-proxy as an authenticating proxy for some of my home web services.

I have a tailscale sidecar docker image that publishes at ghcr.io/offbyone/sidecar that I use to provide the network namespace to my other docker containers. This lets them act as their own individual tailnet hosts.

(I use a lot of tailscale!)

Other things ¶

fuckyour.email , which is a simple web interface to the spam catcher that I run at fuckyour.email , for when I want your email logs to tell you what I think about your newsletter.
nazibar.com , which is a (still very minor) site highlighting vendors and platforms that allow Nazi and fascist content to proliferate. This is, of course, 100% opinion.

Ancient History ¶

The projects linked here are projects I wrote, in some cases, 20+ years ago. I keep the pages here because I don’t really like to let links die, but I neither work on these any more nor really have interest in the tools they’re referencing.