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Hi, I'm Brandur.

I like databases, the independent web, and fast interfaces. I write in full sentences on Slack and use emoticons instead emoji. I think the modern web took a wrong turn on its evolutionary path and that we should resurrect ideas from the earlier days of computing — less centralization, software that's harder to learn but more powerful, and wider technical literacy.

My personal website is here and I'm on Twitter at @brandur.


I'm a sometimes writer. Most frequently by publishing a newsletter called Nanoglyph (which you should sign up for :). Here are its latest issues:


I put other stream of consciousness thoughts into tiny blog posts called fragments:


Once in a while, I write longer form articles:


As often as I can, I post a daily photo and update to sequences:


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Brandur Leach's Projects

sinatra-router icon sinatra-router

A tiny vendorable router that makes it easy to try routes from a number of different modular Sinatra applications.

singularity icon singularity

A demonstration of a very simple static site generator that deploys to S3 through Travis CI.

slides icon slides

An extremely simplistic logs-as-data implementation.

snipmate.vim icon snipmate.vim

snipMate.vim aims to be a concise vim script that implements some of TextMate's snippets features in Vim.

sorg icon sorg

A Go-based static site generator that compiles brandur.org.

spotify icon spotify

A Go wrapper for the Spotify Web API

sql_funk icon sql_funk

Rails gem that extends ActiveRecord with SQL functions, including date functions

surf icon surf

Source code for my blog 'the Surf', uses a custom (and included) static generator.

talks icon talks

Proposals and outlines for conference talks.

the-surf-old icon the-surf-old

Next generation of the Surf (journal). Deprecated in favor Hekla.

tmux-extra icon tmux-extra

Configuration and scripts for sane Tmux default behavior.

vedeu icon vedeu

A terminal case of wonderland.

vim-gh-line icon vim-gh-line

vim plugin that open the link of current line on github

wanikaniapi icon wanikaniapi

A Go client for WaniKani's API (https://docs.api.wanikani.com/).

webmock icon webmock

Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby.

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