This is the homepage of Jason McIntosh (/ˈdʒeɪsən ˈmækɪnˌtɒʃ/), an independent writer and software toolsmith who lives in New York.

You can email me, find me on Twitter, visit my blog, or see my work on GitHub.

You can also learn what I'm up to right now.

Current résumé and portfolio

• My current résumé, a two-page PDF file

• My portfolio for technical writing, and writing about technology

• Appleseed Software Consulting, my freelancer identity for software engineering

Ongoing projects and affiliations

• The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, a charitable nonprofit I co-founded

• The Annual Interactive Fiction Competition, a yearly arts event I help organize

• Fogknife, a general-interest blog, updated regularly

• Plerd, a minimalist blogging platform

• Sweat, a chatty and distracting workout timer

• A few open-source modules for the Perl programming language:

  • Web::Mention, an implementation of the Webmention protocol

  • Web::Microformats2, parsing and processing Microformats2 metadata from HTML or JSON

  • Web::NewsAPI, fetching and searching news headlines from News API

Games and related media

• The Warbler’s Nest, an interactive fiction, 2010

• Barbetween, a reflective art installation, 2014

• Jmac’s Arcade, a series of monologues, 2006-2010

• Gamelab 2011, an introductory game-studies class, 2011

• The Gameshelf, a public-access TV show about obscure games, 2005-2010

More projects on the jmac.org games page. See also my portfolio of games writing.

Tools and inventions

• BumpySkies, an turbulence forecaster for commercial air travelers

• The inch-long text encoder

• @EasternClock, a Twitter-based clock

• @AcrosticPi, a sculpture in word and number

More projects on the jmac.org inventions page.

Deep history

• Perl & XML, written with Erik T. Ray, 2002

• Mac OS X in a Nutshell, written with Chris Stone and Chuck Toporek, 2003

• Volity, an open platform for networked strategy games, circa 2005

• ComicsML, a metadata proposal for comics, 2001