David Ashby is an experienced programmer, book-hoarder, and all-around curious person living in Jersey City, New Jersey.
An interactive map of New York City's independent bookstores that I maintain. I've also tried to visit and write capsule summaries about as many of them as I can.
I'm on the organization committee for Papers We Love New York City, the original chapter of the worldwide Papers We Love community. I also help organize the yearly Papers We Love conference in St. Louis.
I've also given two talks at PWL meetups:
Software I wrote that powers pieces of this server.
Various itch-scratching go projects:
I've written a couple of tools for working with Prusa-brand 3D printers:
One of these days, I'm going to actually write a useful programming language, but until then here's some loosely-written attempts:
I work as a senior engineer on the Sagesure insurance platform, writing Go and Java and working to improve security and reliability.
I briefly worked as a system administrator on the Kindling product at Spigit, and on projects for the Spigit innovation platform. (Spigit was acquired by Planview in late 2018 and renamed to "IdeaPlace" in late 2022.)
I was a support engineer turned system administrator and eventually a developer, working across the entire stack on various projects. The company was purchased by competitor Spigit in early 2017.