I am Tony Narlock

I write software utilities and libraries, mostly in python. They’re tailored to other computer programmers trying to save time automating a repetitive task. One of them, tmuxp constructs tmux sessions from a JSON or YAML file.

On that note, I’ve also written a book about tmux a few years ago, The Tao of tmux.

Another suite of tools I’ve created is the cihai project, a set of tools wrapping Unicode’s UNIHAN dataset for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.

On the UX and design side I use react, TypeScript, and relay (graphql). You can see my resume at https://cv.git-pull.com.

What’s new

• June 2021

  • tmux-python (tmuxp + libtmux), vcs-python (vcspull + libvcs), cihai (cihai, cihai-cli, unihan-etl, unihan-db) moved to markdown

• April 2021

  • Created @social-embed web component / library in TypeScript + LitElement: Homepage, GitHub

• Feb 2021

  • Experimenting with new CV: cv-react-v2.git-pull.com

• August 2020

  • All documentation moved to poetry, Amazon CloudFront and GitHub actions

  • HSKFlashCards has been rewritten in Gatsby + TypeScript + chakra-ui

• August 2019

  • unihan-etl 0.10.3 released

  • cihai 0.9 released

  • cihai-cli 0.5 released, you can now install via pip install cihai[cli]

• June 2018

  Notes on common patterns in project structure / layout in git-pull python projects.

• April 2018

  New organization mirrors on GitLab:

  • tmux-python

  • vcs-python

  • cihai

• March 2018

  • Two new organizations:

    • tmux-python, for the tmuxp and libtmux project.

    • vcs-python, for the vcspull and libvcs project.

    Working slogan: Permissively licensed. For the public good.

  • Continuous integration fixed for tmuxp (#348)

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Publications

The Tao of tmux

Available on Leanpub and Kindle (Amazon). Read the book for free on the web.

Language Projects

cihai

United front for creating open, permissive, standardized CJK datasets.

HSK FlashCards

Study chinese flashcards for Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì, (New) Practical Chinese Reader and Integrated Chinese

Unix-like Utilities

tmuxp (中文)

tmux session manager via JSON and YAML file

libtmux

pilot tmux with python

vcspull

manage and update multiple git / hg / svn projects via JSON or YAML file

libvcs

pythonic API for version control systems

Cookiecutter project templates

Permissively licensed starter templates you can use to bootstrap your projects.

• cookiecutter-pypackage - bootstrap python packages

• cookiecutter-flask-pythonic - flask project

Coding around the web

• My ports for the FreeBSD operating system on portscout

• My issues for FreeBSD in Bugzilla

• Software porting from Linux to BSD on my FreeBSD Wiki Page

• Unofficial tally / roster of open source contributions on OpenHub

• GitHub @tony for recent / current coding

Porting (Linux-to-BSD)

• Elementary Algorithms – Book of Elementary Algorithms and Data structures #16

• pymux – tmux(1) clone in python #34

• aseprite – Cross-platform sprite / pixel art editor #888 #893

• tmux-mem-cpu-load memory, CPU and load averages for tmux status lines #30

• uMario_Jakowski – Super Mario NES clone in SDL2 and C++. Add CMake and get building on FreeBSD and OS X #1

• spdlog - C++11 logger #254

• python-cmake-buildsystem - CMake buildsystem for CPython #133 #136

• nanogui - C++11 gui library for opengl #128 #147

• pyston - An open-source Python implementation using JIT techniques #1072, #1073, #1085

• libpypa - Python parser implemented in pure C++ #50

Scrapyard

Experimental code / patches that never made it upstream:

kakoune branches: cmake build support, mini, new-cli (#693), observers, rm-server (serverless kakoune), pybind11 and Boost.Python integration

vis branches: cmake support, C++ support, python integration

sphinx branches: flexible-builder invocation

tmux branches: cmake build support

saltstack + fabric demo: gist

Presentations

• Guest Speaker @ Fullstack Academy (YC S12) at 1871 (Feb 2017)

• Guangzhou LUG software freedom day @ Sun Yat-sen University (May 2013)

Industry and Press

• Opensource.com mentions The Tao of tmux (Feb 2017)

• Japanese tech blog mentions The Tao of tmux (Jan 2017)

• Bugsnag Engineering using tmuxp (Nov 2016)

• Pragmatic Coders dev shop on configuring tmux sessions with tmuxp (Dec 2015)

• tmuxp featured on OneThingWell Nov 2013 and June 2014

Code Exploration

• Django vs Flask

• Where is python module development happening?

• reST, docutils, sphinx, readthedocs (Updated Feb 09, 2015)

• Python packaging, relative modules and cyclic dependencies

Other

• Bad ass leather / 牛 B 皮革 - PSA on why leather is cool

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