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Hi, I’m a Ron, from Vancouver, BC, 🇨🇦.
I’m a certified lifeguard, swim, ski and snowboard instructor. I have an MBA. I once founded an internet startup. Building things with code is sort of a hobby that has gone too far….
Through the years I've done some things and built some stuff. Most of my recent software work has been in JavaScript, specifically focusing on libraries/packages.
I authored BlockLike.js, an educational JavaScript library designed to bridge the gap between block-based and text-based programming. Put simply, that lib, allows kids (and other learners) to move on from Scratch. BlockLike is open sourced and MIT licensed. There is public facing website at BlockLike.org with FAQs, docs and lots of examples. The code is, you guessed right, is on GitHub.
I've also authored Impossible.js, an Object Oriented JavaScript library for building cross-platform terminal apps (and games). It lets you compose complex user interfaces from small and isolated components, thus greatly simplifying the creation of terminal apps. Impossible is closed source and not licensed. A public intro to the project is available.
On behalf of SolarWinds I’ve done significant work on their Node APM agent. The code is open source and spans four repos: AppOptics Agent AppOptics Native Bindings and SolarWinds Agent SolarWinds Native Bindings
And that’s all for now.
Cheers,
Ron
(Updated June 2024)
1 sponsor has funded ronilan’s work.
Featured work
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ronilan/BlockLike
Bridging the gap between block programming and JavaScript.
JavaScript 243 -
ronilan/that-is-impossible
Intro to Impossible.js, an Object Oriented JavaScript library for building cross-platform terminal apps
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ronilan/crumbicon
An SVG favicon editor for your terminal (written in Crumb)
Shell 17 -
ronilan/rewordle
Rewordle lets you play all the Worlde words from the beginning in the terminal (written in Crumb)
Shell 5
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The funds will go directly towards paying the various tech companies who’s services are essential for a software hobby.
For example, I’ll use it to pay Go Daddy and Network Solutions for domain fees, Heroku and AWS for occasional hosting fees, and Apple for the annual tax that is the Apple Developer Program.
$6,000 a month
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For example to make BlockLike.js more useful to learners, how-to guides and basic tutorials should be written. To make it useful to educators, lesson plans and a teacher’s handbook are needed.
Stuff like that.
Alternatively, under this sponsorship you may ask me to develop (and potentially, but not obligatory, open source) new projects that would benefit you as a sponsor and/or the public at large (or benefit no one in particular). It’s like I’m your employee but we skipped the part where I'm asked to build a terminal based game of Tic-Tac-Toe while someone on your payroll watches.
$12,000 a month
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