Aleksey Skryl

I am a software engineer living in San Francisco. This is my personal data aggregator. It helps me set better goals and track my progress as I stumble along the path to enlightenment. Feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] or check out my resume.

Read

My reading history is available online. The most recent book that I read was The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North.

Written

Check out some of my thoughts and technical tidbits here.

P53 Jan 15, 2015
The Kinesis Conversion Sep 7, 2013
NAND to MIPS Aug 9, 2013
Uncertainty Mar 22, 2013
Sight Jan 11, 2013
Forgotten Oct 31, 2012
A Quest for the Perfect Click Aug 1, 2012

Links

Some inspiring content from around the web.

Tribe of Mentors: Most Impactful Purchases of $100 or Less Dec 13, 2017
Obscurity is a Valid Security Layer Oct 24, 2017
Why can’t we cure the common cold? Oct 22, 2017
§Upgrading to HTTP/2 May 27, 2017
Mossberg: The Disappearing Computer May 27, 2017
kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap May 27, 2017
Effective TensorFlow for Non-Experts (Google I/O '17) May 27, 2017
RailsConf 2017: Warning: May Be Habit Forming by Nickolas Means May 13, 2017
Tmux and Vim - even better together Apr 21, 2017
ethereum/wiki Apr 9, 2017

Code

These are the open source projects that I'm currently working on.

jack — A 2-stage compiler for the Jack programming language
rbpath — An XPath-like query language for Ruby data structures
cortex — A nuPIC neural network implementation
cursed — A tmux-like curses based window manager for tabular data
vimdoc — A vimrc documentation plugin
nike — A REST Client for the Nike+ API
polly — A DSL for working with functional symbolic expressions in Ruby
qbwc — A Rails gem for interfacing with Intuit's Quickbooks Web Connector
qbxml — A Quickbooks XML Parser and validation tool

Twitter

Here are my latest tweets:

So now, when someone tells you that “it’s a marathon, not a sprint”, make sure to clarify cause Kipchoge just ran 2… https://t.co/wIXjEsPBcd 1 day
RT @SportsCenter: Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge has become the first man to run a sub-two hour marathon, smashing the barrier by almost 20 s… https://t.co/DCRiGWych5 1 day
Just installed OSX #Catalina. I've used Duet for years to have my iPad as a secondary display, but Sidecar performa… https://t.co/p2gtHzNZtr 1 day
Not to take anything away from messy geniuses. There are plenty of “messy” people in programming also. They just do… https://t.co/j3R0g0azc5 4 days
Tidiness in naming, categorization, and abstraction are all paramount to working on large systems. In my experience… https://t.co/WbHtZMqBYq 4 days

Every one of my 3,080 tweets

GitHub

This is my latest activity:

skryl pushed to master in nutrisense/react-native-config-reader about 22 hours
skryl pushed to master in nutrisense/react-native-config-reader 1 day
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skryl pushed to master in nutrisense/react-native-f2chart 1 day
skryl pushed to master in nutrisense/react-native-f2chart 1 day
skryl opened a pull request in csath/react-native-config-reader 5 days
skryl pushed to master in nutrisense/react-native-config-reader 5 days

See my Github profile