Jason McIntosh on jmac.org
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
A summary of my software and leadership work, of interest to potential employers
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 run
Fogknife, a general-interest blog, updated regularly
Plerd, a minimalist blogging platform
Sweat, a chatty and distracting workout timer
Whim, a command-line program and Unix daemon for sending, receiving, and displaying webmentions
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
@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
