Filip Salo

Software engineer · Nyköping, Sweden

Three decades of trying to solve interesting problems with small solutions. Sometimes even succeeding.

Now: EdTech. Before: uptime and application monitoring, computational linguistics, teaching, web strategy consulting, early social media.

Code monkeying

Swift

Create beautiful repeatable terminal screenshots without hassle.

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Python

A small Python profiler. Your new best friend.

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Kod

A programming language and compiler toolchain — written in itself.

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Static executable site generator. Content plus production-grade web server. Powers this site.

A silly little MOS 6502 emulator, because old tech is awesome.

Make a program's outbound connections fail, hang, or resolve elsewhere — for testing how software copes with a flaky network.

Profile this Sep 3, 2009

Name a variable label in Python 2.5, run cProfile, and watch it die with TypeError: 'str' object is not callable — maybe submit a patch before reaching for the fork.
An excercise in syntax abuse Jun 18, 2009

Overloading string subtraction in Python to produce character ranges — a random act of senselessness. Never do this sort of shit. Thank you.
Streamxmlwriter 0.2 released May 10, 2009

streamxmlwriter 0.2 is on PyPI — flexible, size-independent XML writing with pretty-printing and custom attribute sorting. pip install it, namespace support is experimental but it handles real work.
Text-safe XML processing with iterparse May 10, 2009
Visible whitespace in the shell May 23, 2008
Fear and motivation Dec 6, 2007
Unicode iterator Aug 29, 2007