What's in My Home Directory

• aosa: source for the website of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
• archive: a GitHub repository with the remains of old projects.
• asimpy: source for a discrete event simulation package I wrote.
• bib: PDFs of 1800 papers, of which I’ve actually read about half.
• bin: little software tools I’ve cobbled together.
• books: PDFs of books I’ve bought.
• bram: source for Jon Udell’s agent management tool.
• catmaid: source for the Collaborative Annotation Toolkit for Massive Amounts of Image Data.
• change: source for my workshop on organizational change.
• chart.xkcd: source for an XKCD-style charting package I’m building.
• closure: source for my workshop on project closure.
• devsim: a placeholder for a student project simulating software development teams (to start in January 2027).
• epub: epub versions of books I’ve bought.
• fiction: stories I’ve written or am writing.
• frml: source for a little program verifier I’ve built.
• glosario: my clone of the Carpentries’ glossary project.
• gvw: personal files (e.g., genealogical material my father and sister collected).
• humans: source for a “Save the Humans!” game I started but never finished.
• jazz: sheets for songs I’m learning to play.
• mccole: source for a little static site generator I built.
• mcq: source for a Quarto-based template for Carpentries-style lessons.
• mrsp: source for my workshop on managing research software projects.
• notwrong: source for my workshop on how to not be wrong when assessing the impact of AI.
• nwit: source of the website for It Will Never Work in Theory.
• overflow: source for a tool that checks remark.js and reveal.js slides for overflow.
• rsdx: source for a book on research software design that I’ll probably never finish writing.
• sdgc: source for the Sex and Drugs and Guns and Code series of blog posts.
• sdm: a placeholder for a student project building a game (to start in January 2027).
• sdxjs: source for Software Design by Example in JavaScript.
• sdxpy: source for Software Design by Example in Python.
• search: materials related to my ongoing job search.
• selfdb: source for Mike Hoye’s tool that turns SQLite .db files into executables.
• shunnify: source for a tool that turns Markdown files into Shunn-formatted manuscripts.
• snailz: source for a synthetic data generator I built for a workshop I never taught.
• sql: source for my short workshop on SQL for data scientists.
• synths: source for a couple of synthetic data generators actually did wind up using.
• third: source of this website.
• travelers: source for a tower support game I started but never finished.
• unbreak: source for my lessons on debugging and fixing software.
• wallpaper: various screen wallpapers I’ve collected over the years.

And then of course there are various dot-files created by various tools, including but not limited to:

• my aspell wordlist
• my Bash profile and history
• the .cache directory where tools like uv save things
• the .bram, .claude, and .codewhale directories created by various AI tools
• my Emacs configuration directory
• my global Git configuration
• NPM’s .npm directory
• authentication tokens for various systems
• the .ssh directory holding my SSH keys