See also: Ideas and Now. This is a list of projects that I have worked on, or am still working on. It is up to date as of November 3rd, 2024.

Projects start in prototyping 🌱, then (if all goes well) move on to in progress 🏗️, and eventually done 🌟, but might get stuck in on hold 🥀.

Fiction writing

I have active fiction writing projects, but I am trying not to jinx it by talking about it publicly. When it’s done, it’ll be published.

Write a one-person stage play

Stage: Prototyping 🌱

See: One-person stage play.

Non-fiction writing

Write a book on writing interpreters

Stage: In progress 🏗️

See: Writing an Interpreter in Ruby.

Write a “pedant’s guide to punctuation” article

Stage: On hold* 🥀

Quotation marks, apostrophes, primes, hyphens, minuses, dashes, oh my. They’re often used incorrectly, both grammatically and typographically. It could be interesting to write up a comprehensive article that covers them end to end.

See: The Pedant’s Guide to Punctuation.

Software projects

Software, whether open-source or not.

Build a development environment setup tool

Stage: On hold 🥀

At Shopify, there is a command-line tool called dev which, with a single dev up invocation, sets up an entire local development environment. I need this for myself, too. See also: Local development environment setup tool.

Build a budgeting app

Stage: On hold 🥀

See Budgeting app prototype. It is something I’ve been working on on-and-off for a long time.