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. Measure the things you care about.

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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 in one binary. Powers this site.

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

Induce controlled failures in outgoing connections — for testing, not security.

Release: surblclient 0.2.0 Jun 30, 2026

A small Python library for checking domains against the SURBL, URIBL, and Spamhaus DBL spam blocklists.
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
Text-safe XML processing with iterparse May 10, 2009
Visible whitespace in the shell May 23, 2008
Fear and motivation Dec 6, 2007