Aleksey Skryl

About

My name is Alex, I am a freelance software engineer currently living in Chicago, and this is my personal data aggregator. It helps me set better goals and track my progress as I stumble along the path to enlightenment. Feel free to drop me a line at aleksey.skryl@gmail.com or check out my resume.

Writing

I write fiction and blog once in a while. Here is my latest writing:

Uncertainty Mar 22, 2013
Sight Jan 11, 2013
Forgotten Oct 31, 2012
Cat in Color Oct 9, 2012
A Quest for the Perfect Click Aug 1, 2012

Books

My entire reading history and notes are available online. The most recent book that I read was The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

Projects

These are the open source projects that I'm currently working on:

capybara-repl — A Capybara based front-end scripting REPL environment.
nike — A REST Client for the Nike+ API.
polly — A DSL for working with functional symbolic expressions in Ruby.
heroku_db_env — Overwrite Heroku's auto-generated database configuration.
pg_schema — Simple schema support for the Rails pg adapter.
automata — An n-Dimensional cellular automata simulation and evolution framework.
qbwc — A Rails gem for interfacing with Intuit's Quickbooks Web Connector.
qbxml — A Quickbooks XML Parser and validation tool.
config_logic — Intuitive configuration managment for Ruby and Rails projects.
fuzzy_notes — A CLI note manager with fuzzy search, encryption, and Evernote sync.

Twitter

Here are my latest tweets:

It's about time Belkin. http://t.co/18U2azQk6L 1 day
And so it begins... 7k for a grad degree from a top tier school... online. Feeling bad about your loans yet? http://t.co/Zd8BgQROSc 5 days
It's the last week of Functional Programming Principles in Scala on @Coursera! http://t.co/k4vhHEMBwv #progfun Thanks @odersky and team! 5 days
The Unseen Photography of Vivien Maier http://t.co/AR9WT1QWXL 7 days
Wikipedia Recent Changes Map http://t.co/5PKMEY2DoR 8 days

Every one of my 976 tweets

GitHub

This is my latest activity:

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