Arbitrary Highlights

• My works on Github.
• Core Spirit: current employer.
• Astrotips: video guides on Astroneer.
• ProstoPoi (language: Russian): poi community website. We have our own video lessons, go check us out!

Chronological

Sorted by start time. Some "old"-looking projects are actively used and continually developed. Some private projects are excluded.

• Tabularius‍ (author; JS; 2025+; broken by game updates, still an awesome experiment)

  Browser-based companion app and toolkit for Tower Dominion.

• dock_hotkeys‍ (bot-prompter; Swift; 2025+; pretends to work, used all the time)

  MacOS app for activating Dock apps by ordinal hotkeys.

• gg‍ (author; Go; 2022+; used all the time)

  Essential tools missing from the Go standard library.

• js‍ (author; JS; 2022+; used all the time)

  "JS standard library" that doesn't suck. Foundation for JS apps.

• ur‍ (author; JS; 2022+; subsumed‍)

  Superior URL and query implementation for JS. Similar to built-in URL but actually usable.

• test‍ (author; JS; 2021+; subsumed‍)

  Superior testing and benchmarking library for JS. Runs in all environments. High benchmark accuracy.

• oas‍ (author; Go; 2021+; works)

  OpenAPI specs for your Go server, generated at server runtime using reflection.

• gr‍ (author; Go; 2021+; actively used)

  Short for "Go Request-Response". Shortcuts for making HTTP requests and reading HTTP responses in Go.

• ded‍ (author; Go; 2021+; subsumed‍)

  Experimental tool for deduplicating concurrent background operations in Go, with limited-time caching.

• gt‍ (author; Go; 2021+; actively used)

  Short for "Go Types". Important data types missing from the Go standard library.

• cc‍ (author; Go; 2022+; subsumed‍)

  Tiny Go tool for running multiple functions concurrently and collecting their results into an error slice.

• cmd‍ (author; Go; 2021+; used all the time; should be subsumed into "gg")

  Missing feature of the Go standard library: ability to define subcommands while using flag.

• sublime-scss‍ (author; Sublime; 2021+; done, actively used)

  Redesigned CSS and SCSS syntaxes for Sublime Text. Built on open-ended principles. Designed for forward compatibility.

• ProstoPoi SSG‍ (implementer; JS; 2021+)

  Poi community website. Runs since 2014. Now converted from Django (Python) to static generation (JS), open sourced.

• gax‍ (author; Go; 2021+; done, actively used)

  Simple system for writing HTML as Go code. Use normal Go conditionals, loops and functions. Benefit from typing and code analysis. Better performance than templating.

• imperouter‍ (author; JS; 2021+; subsumed‍)

  Simple imperative router for hybrid SSR+SPA.

• jol‍ (author; JS; 2021+; subsumed‍)

  JS Collection Classes. Tiny extensions on JS built-in classes, with nice features such as easy-to-use typed collections, dictionary with structured keys, and more.

• web-starter‍ (author; JS; 2021+)

  Starter templates for minimal web apps, from simplest to complex. Sucks less than X. Work in progress.

• afr‍ (author; JS; 2021+; subsumed‍)

  Flexible library for serving files, with optional client integration for CSS injection and page reload.

• espo‍ (author; JS; 2021+; subsumed‍)

  Observables via proxies. Particularly suited for UI programming. Supports automatic, implicit sub/resub and resource deinit.

• prax‍ (author; JS; 2021+; subsumed‍)

  Simple rendering library for hybrid SSR+SPA. Superior replacement for rendering frameworks like React.

• jtg‍ (author; JS; 2021+; worse than Make)

  "JS Task Group". Simple JS-based replacement for Make, Gulp, etc.

• try‍ (author; Go; 2022+; subsumed‍)

  Shorter error handling in Go. Supports two styles: explicit try and exceptions.

• srv‍ (author; Go; 2021+; done)

  Extremely simple Go tool that serves files out of a given folder, using a file resolution algorithm similar to Github Pages, Netlify, or the default Nginx config.

• gtg‍ (author; Go; 2021+; worse than Make)

  Go task group / task graph. Good for CLI task orchestration. Replaces Make and Mage.

• gord‍ (author; Go; 2021+; done)

  Simple ordered sets for Go.

• goh‍ (author; Go; 2021+; done, actively used)

  Go HTTP handlers. Utility types that represent a not-yet-sent HTTP response as a value (status, header, body) with NO added abstractions or interfaces.

• frac‍ (author; Go; 2021+; done, actively used)

  Missing feature of Go stdlib: integers ↔︎ fractional numeric strings, without rounding errors or bignums. Arbitrary fraction precision and radix.

• rout‍ (author; Go; 2021+; done, actively used)

  Imperative router for Go HTTP servers. Procedural control flow with declarative syntax. Doesn't need middleware.

• sublime-sql‍ (author; Sublime; 2021+; done, actively used)

  Sublime Text syntax definitions for SQL, rebuilt with better semantics. Currently only Postgres dialect.

• sublime-lisp‍ (author; Sublime; 2021+)

  Lisp support for Sublime Text. Supports multiple dialects. Immature work in progress.

• emptty‍ (author; Go; 2021+; done)

  Clears the terminal, for real.

• sublime-forth‍ (author; Sublime; 2021+)

  Sublime Text syntax for the Forth programming language.

• sublime-rebol‍ (author; Sublime; 2020+)

  Immature syntax for Rebol/Red in Sublime Text.

• jsonfmt‍ (author; Go; 2020+; done, actively used)

  Flexible JSON formatter. Supports comments, single-line until width limit, fixes punctuation. Library and optional CLI.

• jel‍ (author; Go; 2020+; subsumed‍)

  "JSON Expession Language". Expresses a whitelisted subset of SQL with simple JSON structures.

• sqlb‍ (author; Go; 2020+; actively used)

  SQL query builder in Go. Highly flexible and efficient.

• sqlp‍ (author; Go; 2020+; subsumed‍)

  Parser for rewriting foreign code embedded in SQL.

• gos‍ (author; Go; 2020+; subsumed‍)

  Tool for mapping between Go structs and plain SQL. Not an ORM.

• rd‍ (author; Go; 2020+; done, actively used)

  Tool for decoding HTTP requests into Go structs. Transparently supports multiple formats: JSON, URL-encoded, multipart.

• untext‍ (author; Go; 2020+; subsumed‍)

  Missing feature of the Go standard library: unmarshal arbitrary string into arbitrary value.

• rf‍ (author; Go; 2020+; done, actively used)

  Important utilities missing from the reflect package in the Go standard library.

• sublime-fmt‍ (author; Python; 2020+; done, actively used)

  Sublime Text generic formatter plugin; formats arbitrary code by calling arbitrary executables, such as gofmt.

• Core Spirit‍ (tech lead; Postgres, Go, JS; 2020+)

  Current employer. Platform for practitioners of spiritual arts. Combines articles, services, and more.

• eth‍ (author; Go; 2018—2018)

  Client library for interacting with Ethereum from Go. Superior alternative to the "official" client libraries provided with go-ethereum.

• gow‍ (author; Go; 2018+; actively used by many)

  Missing watch mode for Go commands. Watch Go files and execute a command like go run or go test.

• repr‍ (author; Go; 2018+; subsumed‍)

  Pretty-print Go data structures as valid Go code.

• sublime-goasm‍ (author; Sublime; 2018+; actively used)

  Syntax definition for Go assembly for Sublime Text.

• sublime-caser‍ (author; Sublime; 2018+; actively used)

  Sublime Text plugin for converting typographic cases.

• sublime-gox‍ (author; Sublime; 2018+; officially adopted)

  [Merged into ST] Sublime Text syntax for Go.

• sb‍ (author; CSS; 2018+; used by this website)

  Minimal CSS foundation.

• papyre‍ (author; JS; 2018—2018)

  Build tool for static websites. Bring your own rendering engine. Works well with React and Netlify CMS.

• sublime-themes‍ (author; Sublime; 2017+; continuously used and updated)

  Custom color schemes for Sublime Text.

• wordplay‍ (colab; 🧠; 2017+; we invented more puns than some humans know WORDS)

  the PUNS 🔥

• epdf‍ (author; JS, Node; 2017—2017)

  Render any URL to PDF using Electron.

• posterus‍ (author; JS; 2017+; useful but paused)

  Asynchronous primitives. Superior replacement for JS promises. Synchronous by default. Supports true cancelation. Supports fibers.

• Bolala‍ (frontend; JS; 2017—2018)

  E-commerce platform. Had some interesting tech but didn't launch. Permanently down.

• clj-ws-client‍ (author; Clojure; 2017—2017)

  WebSocket client (not server) written in pure Clojure with no dependencies. Less bad than most alternatives.

• clojure-datomic-starter‍ (author; Clojure; 2017—2017)

  Quickstart/template for a Clojure/Ring webserver with Datomic.

• clojure-auth0-starter‍ (author; Clojure; 2017—2017)

  Quickstart/template for a Clojure/Ring webserver with Auth0.

• clojure-forge‍ (author; Clojure; 2017—2018)

  Development tool for Clojure. Especially useful for Ring servers. Watches files, reloads code, restarts system, displays system errors on a webpage.

• sublime-clojure‍ (author; Sublime; 2017+; officially adopted)

  [Merged into ST] Sublime Text syntax for Clojure.

• Shanzhai City‍ (tech lead; Go, JS, Clojure; 2017—2018)

  Various webapps and websites for Shanzhai City, a joint US-Chinese startup aiming at making charity effective.

• Render.js‍ (member; JS, Node; 2016—2017)

  Experimental service for prerendering JS SPA into HTML. An order of magnitude faster than the alternatives.

• fpx‍ (author; JS; 2016+; subsumed‍)

  Functional programming utils and type assertions for JS.

• emerge‍ (author; JS; 2015+; done)

  Utils for using plain JS objects as immutable data structures with extremely memory-efficient updates. Heavily inspired by clojure.core. Much lighter and simpler than the popular alternatives.

• chat‍ (author; JS, Firebase, React; 2015+)

  Realtime chat demo made with Firebase and React.

• statil‍ (author; JS; 2015—2021; replaced‍)

  Simple templating utility that uses JS for embedded scripting. Superseded by Prax.

• alder‍ (author; JS; 2015—2015; replaced‍)

  Experimental rendering library inspired by React and Reagent. Represents view components with plain functions and DOM with plain JavaScript data structures. Superseded by Prax.

• ToBox‍ (member; JS, React; 2015—2016)

  Stylish, visual platform for creating online shops. Part of the web frontend team. Permanently down.

• atril‍ (author; TypeScript; 2015—2015; subsumed‍)

  Experimental rendering library inspired by React and Angular. Documented with flashy demos, but unused. Superseded by Prax.

• GorodDeti‍ (implementer; JS, SCSS; 2015—2015)

  First version of a website about the kindergarten ran by a friend's friend. See https://goroddeti.ru for the current version (not mine).

• simple-pjax‍ (author; JS; 2015+; done)

  Drop-in JS library that dramatically speeds up page transitions on server-rendered websites. See the explanatory blog post.

• xhttp‍ (author; JS; 2014+; subsumed‍)

  Shortcuts for the native JS fetch/Request/Response API. Provides a fluent builder-style API for request building and response reading.

• stylific‍ (author; SCSS; 2015+; simplified‍)

  CSS library/framework. Similar to Bootstrap, built on different principles. Accompanied by stylific-lite, succeeded by sb.

• codex‍ (author; Go; 2015+; paused)

  Generator of random synthetic words or names.

• ProstoPoi‍ (implementer; Python, Django, React; later: custom JS; 2014+; frozen‍)

  Poi community website. We have our own video lessons, go check us out!

• jisp‍ (author; JS, Jisp; 2014+; update upcoming)

  Lisp-style language that compiles to JavaScript.