Hi there! I’m Robey (he or they), a coder and musician living in San José, California. I’ve worked at Twitter, Danger, and Afero, and play in The Ice Weasels. I like cats and whiskey.

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Running the Gauntlet 26 Apr 2026
My Watchy OS 14 Sep 2025
Setting up a CI server for Forgejo 10 Aug 2025
Bizcat - an 8x16 bitmap font 09 Feb 2020
The Year of the Linux Laptop - Darter Pro Review 21 Apr 2019
Interaction 13 Dec 2012
How to add numbers (part 2) 14 Nov 2012
How to add numbers (part 1) 07 Nov 2012
C++ quirks, remembered 09 Oct 2012
Mensch 2.0 22 Aug 2012
Why Config? 26 Mar 2012
Dissolving patterns 30 Apr 2011
Why AT&T Deserves To Fail 03 Jul 2010
Mensch -- A coding font 21 Jun 2010
A very tiny, monospace, bitmap font 23 Jan 2010
More real-world git 29 Nov 2009
Fanout queues in kestrel 1.2 10 Oct 2009
Follow-up on Scala on Android 19 Jul 2009
Actors talk for SDForum 25 Jun 2009
Performance bug in kestrel 1.1 18 May 2009
Sidekick LX party 15 May 2009
Does anyone actually use JMX? 29 Mar 2009
Actors, Mina, and Naggati 02 Mar 2009
Paramiko is on github now 16 Feb 2009
Scala on Android 19 Jan 2009
Java SE6 on Leopard 01 Dec 2008
Scarling » Kestrel 27 Nov 2008
Coder Dvorak 20 Sep 2008
OS X Leopard JNI Link Error 02 Sep 2008
CJC Prime Number Sieve 27 Aug 2008
Git for the real world 13 Jul 2008
Git gripes 11 May 2008
Scarling 07 May 2008
Scala infatuation 16 Mar 2008

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kestrel - small, scalable message queue daemon
paramiko - SSH library for python
eggdrop - IRC bot

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