cjrh - Overview

Caleb Hattingh

I like small, orthogonal tools with sharp edges. These are a few of my hobby projects.

Project links

The SVG is the overview; these links are here so the projects stay easy to open from GitHub. This is intentionally curated, not a complete index.

Headline projects

• aiorun: a small, reliable run() function for asyncio applications.
• easycython: build Cython extensions without setup.py ceremony.
• autoslot: automatic __slots__ for lean Python classes.
• aiomsg: smart sockets and messaging protocols for network applications.
• excitertools: fluent, chainable iteration helpers.
• misu: high-speed physical quantities and dimensions in Python.
• deadpool: a ProcessPoolExecutor implementation that is harder to break.
• lifter: sync single-file binaries from GitHub Releases and similar sources.
• coroexecutor: nursery-like coroutine execution for asyncio.

Maintained upstream

• quickwit-oss/tantivy-py: Python bindings for Tantivy; I am a core maintainer.

Async and reliability

• dockerctx: context manager for Docker container lifetimes in tests.
• biodome: better environment variables for Python.

Developer workflows

• stackymcstackface: GitHub PR stacking tool.
• playpen: launch programs with memory, CPU, and path limits.
• clonymccloneface: clone GitHub repos and set upstreams for forks.
• debussy: emit JSON when the current Linux media track changes.

Language, data, and search

• thesauromatic: static, offline CLI thesaurus.
• dictomatic: static, offline CLI dictionary.
• rhymomatic: static, offline rhyming dictionary.

Newer public experiments

• diesel-clickhouse: Diesel ORM support for ClickHouse.
• diesel-paradedb: Diesel ORM extensions for ParadeDB.
• chimera: experimental Axum extension for Python request handlers.
• iced-themer: configure an Iced theme from a TOML file.

This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.
— Unix Time-Sharing System (preface), McIlroy, Pinson and Tague, 1978