Brandur Leach (@brandur)
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    2,975
  • Global Rank 9,955 (Top 0.4 %)
  • Followers 1,192
  • Following 6
  • Registered over 15 years ago
  • Most used languages
    Ruby
         39.1 %
    Go
         29.3 %
    JavaScript
         7.6 %
    Rust
         6.5 %
    Shell
         5.4 %
    Haskell
         2.2 %
    C
         2.2 %
    HTML
         2.2 %
    C#
         2.2 %
    Vim Script
         1.1 %
    CSS
         1.1 %
    PLpgSQL     1.1 %

Top repositories

1

redis-cell

A Redis module that provides rate limiting in Redis as a single command.
Rust
1,189
star
2

sorg

A Go-based static site generator that compiles brandur.org.
Go
486
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3

json_schema

A JSON Schema V4 and Hyperschema V4 parser and validator.
Ruby
230
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4

heroku-http-api-design

The Heroku HTTP API Design Guide, forked to look more like its original pre-GitBook state with a more easily digestible single-page format.
167
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5

hutils

A collection of command line utilities for working with logfmt.
Ruby
108
star
6

tmux-extra

Configuration and scripts for sane Tmux default behavior.
Shell
108
star
7

rocket-rides-atomic

Ruby
94
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8

sinatra-router

A tiny vendorable router that makes it easy to try routes from a number of different modular Sinatra applications.
Ruby
61
star
9

rhttpserve

A tiny HTTP server that can serve files out of any rclone remote.
Go
39
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10

rocket-rides-unified

Ruby
27
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11

podcore

Rust
22
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12

microservices

21
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13

blackswan

A project designed to provide personal data ownership and display.
JavaScript
21
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14

heroku-buildpack-mono

ASP.NET buildpack deployed on top of Mono and XSP.
Shell
18
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15

postgres-practices

18
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16

rocket-rides-scalable

Ruby
16
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17

singularity

A demonstration of a very simple static site generator that deploys to S3 through Travis CI.
Go
15
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18

dorian

A personal identity manager and aggregator written in Rails 3.1.
JavaScript
13
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19

casseo

A Graphite dashboard for the command line.
Ruby
12
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20

modulir

Modulir is an experimental mini-framework for static site generation.
Go
11
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21

connections-test

Go
10
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22

wanikaniapi

A Go client for WaniKani's API (https://docs.api.wanikani.com/).
Go
10
star
23

qself

Qself is a small tool to sync personal data from APIs down to local TOML files for easier portability and storage.
Go
10
star
24

cmark2jira

Translate good CommonMark into bad JIRA markup.
Rust
9
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25

brandur

Go
9
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26

hncheck

A very simple app that checks to see if something under one of your domains has been submitted to HN, and emails you if it has.
Go
9
star
27

simple-schema

9
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28

que-degradation-test

Ruby
8
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29

org

A now defunct project that served my personal site.
8
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30

mutelight-v2

Content for my technical journal at mutelight.org, designed to be used with Hekla.
Ruby
8
star
31

geotools

Updated mirror for the Geotools.Net project.
C#
8
star
32

redis-haskell

Haskell bindings for Redis, a fast persistent key-value store.
Haskell
7
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33

logfmt

logfmt parser in Rust.
Rust
7
star
34

hekla

Responsive blogging engine for ephemeral platforms.
JavaScript
7
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35

mastodon-cross-post

A simple project that cross-posts tweets to Mastodon.
Go
6
star
36

passages-signup

A backend for the signup forms of my newsletters "Nanoglyph" and "Passages & Glass".
Go
6
star
37

heroku-agent

A lightweight process that can communicate with the Heroku CLI and hk to provide more expendient fulfillment of API requests and better convenience of use.
Go
6
star
38

simplebox

Package simplebox provides a simple, easy-to-use cryptographic API where all of the hard decisions have been made for you in advance.
Go
6
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39

neospring

Go
6
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40

logs

Ruby
5
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41

perpetual

Go
5
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42

slides

An extremely simplistic logs-as-data implementation.
Ruby
5
star
43

rack-instruments

Rack middleware providing basic instrumentation.
Ruby
4
star
44

http_accept

Simple library for HTTP Accept header parsing and ordering.
Ruby
4
star
45

composable

Slides for my talk "Post-Rails? Composable Apps with a First-class API".
JavaScript
4
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46

middleware-rust

Rust
4
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47

heroku-mono-build

Heroku-based build recipe for Mono and XSP.
Shell
4
star
48

rack-robots

Rack middleware that denies all robots for staging and development environments.
Ruby
4
star
49

obsidian

Web framework in Haskell to power factz.org. Deprecated in favor of the Rails Facts app.
Haskell
3
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50

the-surf

Article content for the Surf.
Shell
3
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51

facts-cli

Command line interface based on Thor for the Facts sever project.
Ruby
3
star
52

mutelight-v1

Nanoc source for my blog at mutelight.org. Deprecated in favor of Askja.
Ruby
3
star
53

artifice-excon

A version of Wycat's Artifice for use with Excon.
Ruby
3
star
54

facts-api

Facts API.
Ruby
3
star
55

heroku-buildpack-mono-build

Builds binaries for the herok-buildpack-mono project.
Shell
2
star
56

db-fill

PLpgSQL
2
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57

heroku-api-blog

JavaScript
2
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58

nanowrimo10

My current contribution for National Novel Writing Month. See http://nanowrimo.org.
2
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59

rakenet

Command line build and testing infrastructure for a .NET project.
Ruby
2
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60

dping

Ruby
2
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61

cping

Go
2
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62

mozjpeg-builder

2
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63

zendtools.vim

Various useful functions for working in PHP with Zend.
Vim Script
2
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64

surf

Source code for my blog 'the Surf', uses a custom (and included) static generator.
Ruby
2
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65

sharks

A scraping and data visualization service for Global Shark Attack File records.
Ruby
2
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66

spring83-keygen

2
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67

gal

Go
2
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68

brandur-old

Rails app to power brandur.org. This has been deprecated in favor of Dorian.
Ruby
2
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69

service-stub-example

Ruby
2
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70

imagemagick-builder

2
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71

sequel-instruments

Basic instrumentation for Sequel.
Ruby
2
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72

facts-nodejs

Facts database for increasing retention of general knowledge, and for winning arguments. Deprecated in favor of the Rails version.
JavaScript
2
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73

facts

A tool for getting smarter and winning arguments.
Ruby
2
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74

d2

A cross-version compatible shortcut for invoking a Ruby debugger.
Ruby
2
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75

omniauth-heroku

Ruby
2
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76

postgres-table-rename-test

Ruby
2
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77

askja

Minimalist blogging platform written in Rails as a flexible alternative to static generators.
Ruby
2
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78

facts-web

Frontend interface that talks to facts-api.
JavaScript
2
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79

asp-net-sample

Sample ASP.NET MVC application that can run on Heroku.
C#
1
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80

wgt2

Go
1
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81

magmv

A program to rename poorly titled magazine PDF files.
Go
1
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82

deathguild

Creates Spotify playlists for each night of Death Guild.
HTML
1
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83

cheat-sheets-dev

A set of cheat sheets designed to centralize information to quicken the development process.
1
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84

heroku-hyper-schema

1
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85

umbrella-rust

Rust
1
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86

certrotate

Go
1
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87

php-mbstring-overload-tests

Simple test suite to demonstrate PHP's mbstring function overloading.
C
1
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88

the-surf-old

Next generation of the Surf (journal). Deprecated in favor Hekla.
Ruby
1
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89

schemadoc

Ruby
1
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90

fireball

Go
1
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91

qself-brandur

1
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92

submodule-dud

1
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93

archlinux-packages

My contributed PKGBUILDs for the Archlinux AUR.
1
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94

millstone

1
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95

neospring-bridge

Go
1
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96

csrf

Go
1
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97

wkunburn

Go
1
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98

dummy

Empty repository.
1
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99

wgt

A WGT-related playground.
Go
1
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100

transaction-philosophy

HTML
1
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