An index of a few projects.

Ongoing projects and affiliations

• Masto.NYC, a Mastodon server operated by the non-profit Five Borough Fedi Project, which I co-founded.

• Fogknife, a general-interest blog that I update semi-regularly.

• Venthuffer, an audio zine about the Steam Deck video game console.

• BumpySkies, a turbulence forecaster for commercial air travelers.

Other recent work

• The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, a charitable nonprofit I co-founded and led for a while.

• The Annual Interactive Fiction Competition, a yearly arts event I helped run for several years.

• 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.

Miscellany

• The inch-long text encoder, a joke.

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.

• @EasternClock, a Twitter-based clock. (But Twitter is gone now, and so's this.)

• @AcrosticPi, a sculpture in word and number. (But Twitter is no more, so this went away too.)