cv.md

Things I Can Do…

• …with confidence and proficiency

  • Write Python applications, particularly with Django or Bottle

  • Design and build compliant and semantic HTML/CSS websites

  • Dance around in Vim

  • Make good use of a Git or Mercurial repository

  • Produce music

  • Administer a Debian, Arch Linux or Ubuntu machine

• …with a fair amount of Googling and/or apologising

  • Enhance websites with Javascript and, ideally, JQuery

  • Administer a Linux machine running a distro not listed above

  • Take photos of things

  • Produce video

Things I’ve Got

• A Degree

  • BSc, first class honours

  • Creative Music Technology at Staffordshire University, 2012

• An Award

  • My Final Year Project won second prize in the music category at [GradEx 2012] gradex

Things I’ve Made

• [nkd.su] nkdsu ([source] nkdsu.src) {Python, Django, HTML/CSS, Javascript, JQuery, git}

  • A request-gathering and voting service for [a music show] nekodesu on [a commercial radio station] thecat

  • Votes recieved via the Twitter streaming API, falling back to polling when necessary

  • Staff-only features:

    • Library update from iTunes XML

    • Playlist preparation

  • Persistent, per-session track selection allows mass voting (and mass staff actions)

  • Responsive CSS

  • I also made the [jingle] nekodesu-jingle for the show

• pyfoot pyfoot ([source] pyfoot.src) {Python, IRC, Bottle, HTML/CSS, git}

  • An IRC robot with automatically generated [web-based documentation] pyfoot

  • API-polling plugins include [last.fm] lastfm.py, [Bing Translate] translate.py, [Weather Underground] weather.py and [mal-api] mal.py

  • Idles on Rizon rizon and [IRCHighWay] highway

• ltmtf {Python, hg}

  • An award-winning MIDI-based music interpolation engine

  • Score-based and heavily threaded

• [Music for the Blind] mftb {Python, Django, HTML/CSS, Music, hg}

  • A website featuring a collection of 46 songs made to requests, 11 of which were paid

  • Responsive CSS

• [Alter Locus] pyrrha {Music}

  • A concept album about Earth’s first interstellar planetary colonisation mission

• [The Trenchfoot Collection] trenchfoot {Photography}

• [The Best I Can Do] deadline {Music, Video}

• Much more — including a video game headline generator and this very CV — on my GitHub github profile.