Terraform in Depth
An in-depth guide to everything Terraform and OpenTofu. Covers Infrastructure as Code from the basics to advanced production uses, including modules, CI/CD, testing, and custom providers.
Writings
Beyond the Vibes
A rigorous guide to AI coding assistants and agents. Covers tools, practices, and guardrails for using AI in development without falling into the traps of vibe coding.
Project Templates
Rob's Awesome Python Template
StarThis is the complete CookieCutter template for Python that can be used for any project.
Terraform Module Cookiecutter
StarThis CookieCutter Template generates Terraform Modules with all the best practices and tools.
tedivms-flask
StarThis is my default Flask project template. It contains a complete docker environment, user management system, API system, Celery worker and tasks, and other important modules in addition to a Bootstrap based front end.
Favorites
TofuPy
StarA Python library that makes it easy to build tools around OpenTofu and Terraform.
QuasiQueue
StarA MultiProcessing library for Python that makes it super easy to have long running MultiProcess jobs.
Paracelsus
StarGenerate Entity Relationship Diagrams in Mermaid or Dot format for SQLAlchemy Databases.
Stash
StarThis caching library supports multiple backends with a consistent frontend. It supports hierarchical keys, stampede and dogpile protection, automatic miss distribution, and more.
JShrink
StarThis library minifies javascript using 100% pure PHP, allowing it to be integrated into applications with minimal work and maximum compatibility.
Applications
git brag
StarHighlight and Share Your Open Source Contributions using a web application or CLI.
GitStars
StarA Github API aimed at Front End use. This API uses extensive caching and authenticated APIs to work around Github API Ratelimiting. It drives the Github Star Badges on my portfolio site.
QR Stencil Creator
StarA simple web application that lets users create QR codes that can be turned into stencils with a laser cutter or similar tool.
Nebula
StarNebula provides a simplified dashboard that allows researchers to launch and manage their own servers on AWS. It also provides SSH Key management, scheduled shutdowns, group controls, and a variety of other features.
GitConsensus
StarGitConsensus makes it possible to automate project governance on GitHub by using “reactions” as a voting mechanism to automatically merge (or close) pull requests.
GithubOrganizer
StarGithubOrganizer applies settings to teams, repositories, and issues- automatically protecting branches, applying labels, and assigning issues to projects.
BadThings Slack Bot
StarThe Bad Things Daily Twitter account provides scenarios for tabletop disaster planning. This application sends random scenarios right to Slack.
League of Automated Nations
StarThis web application is an alliance tracker for a programming game called Screeps. It maintains rankings as well as an interactive map showing which rooms are claimed by different players and alliances.
ec2details
StarThis service provides an API with metadata (including pricing) for every AWS EC2 instance type. It processes the AWS Bulk API to multiple times a day to always provide the most up to date information.
Multi-Py
Multi-Py is a collection of python images with amd64, arm64, and arm v7 support.
python-celery
StarMultiarchitecture Docker Containers for Python with Celery
python-uvicorn
StarMultiarchitecture Docker Containers for Python with Uvicorn
python-gunicorn
StarMultiarchitecture Docker Containers for Python with Gunicorn
python-gunicorn-uvicorn
StarMultiarchitecture Docker Containers for Python using Gunicorn and Uvicorn
python-oso
StarMultiarchitecture Docker Containers for Python with OSO
Python Development
These tools were specifically designed to make development with Python easier.
Python Lockfile Update
StarA Github Action that uses pip-tools to update a project's requirements.txt files using a Pull Request.
Libraries
SkySnoop
StarA Python SDK and CLI for querying aircraft data from adsb.lol, a community-driven ADS-B aggregation service.
github3apps.py
StarThis library is a wrapper around the github3.py library, giving it the ability to build GitHub Applications.
Fetch
StarThis library wraps the native PHP IMAP libraries around a modern object orientated interface.
Digital Art
Game of Life
StarA Conway's Game of Life implimentation with additional rules and variants that add colors, written in javascript using canvas.
Formations
StarAn experiment in digital movement.
Rob's Wall Clock
StarA hardware project building an internet enabled clock with a colorful variant of Conway's Game of Life as a background.
CLIs
GitConsensus CLI
StarA standalone python application and library for managing Github PRs using Reactions as a voting mechanism.
JSONSmash
StarA node cli shell that lets users browse large json objects like they would a filesystem.
SecretCLI
StarA simple CLI tool that makes reading and writing to the AWS Secrets Manager super easy.
URLParser
StarAnother really simple tool, the URLParser takes in various URIs and returns back the piece you're looking for; such as the scheme, domain, or port.
DapperData
StarAn opinionated file formatter for JSON and YAML that can be used to fix formatting or integrated into the test suite to ensure files are formatted appropriately.
Terraform
terraform-mastodon-provider
StarA Terraform provider for posting to Mastodon servers.
terraform-aws-nat
StarThis module launches a NAT Instance on AWS for cheap and efficient private subnet internet access.
terraform-aws-dev-vpn
StarThis module creates a user specific AWS VPN and drops an OpenVPN configuration file to the local system.
terraform-aws-lambda
StarThis module provides a variety of ways to deploy Lambda functions on AWS.
terraform-general-cloudinit
StarThis module is a wrapper around the cloudinit resource that exposes cloud config settings directly.
Puppet
psad
StarThis module controls the Port Scan Active Defense program, providing active response to block port scans.
rsnapshot
StarThis advanced rsnapshot module makes backing up servers trivial. SSH keys and accounts are created, as are wrapper scripts around sudo to prevent opening the root account to ssh.
ghebackups
StarThis module turns a server into a Github Enterprise backup server. It creates the relevant accounts, adds cronjobs, and manages ssh options to ensure that backups occur.
hieratic
StarThis module makes all of the native datatypes present in Puppet accessible directly using Hiera in order to make testing and prototyping faster.
inspiricd
StarThis module allows IRC networks and servers to be defined using inspircd.
iscsi
StarThis module makes it possible to define iscsi connections in Puppet. This makes it easier to work with AWS Storage Gateways and other iscsi devices.
Misc
Jekyll Portfolio
StarThe theme behind this very portfolio is available for you to use to build your own portfolio site with Jekyll and Github Pages.
Slack Proxy
StarThis simple to deploy application allows developers to send notifications to slack without having to manage webhooks directly themselves.
NLM Scrubber Assist
StarThe NLM Scrubber is a package released by the National Library of Medicine to remove PHI from medical documents. This project wraps that in a docker container and provides python and bash libraries.
HeadedHome
StarUsing an IOT Button as a trigger, this Lambda function estimates my time of getting home from work based off of current public transit times and sends a text to both myself and my partner with that ETA.
syntaxhighlighter_yaml
StarThis Wordpress Plugin adds YAML Syntax Highlighting.
Screeps
Screeps is an an open-source sandbox MMO RTS game for programmers, wherein the core mechanic is programming your units' AI.
Quorum
StarThe Quorum project is an experiment that uses Screeps, GitConsensus, and the ScreepsAutoSpawner to see what happens when the community has to vote to accept new pull requests- and any vote that passes gets pulled. It initially started as being written primarily by me and overtime has gotten more community involvement.
ScreepsAutoSpawner
StarThis program checks the Screeps world to see if the player is still alive, and if not it automatically respawns them into the world. This requires scanning the world to find appropriate locations, scoring them, and then placing the first spawn automatically in the selected room.
ScreepsDashboard
StarThis dashboard was created for the Quorum project and lets the public view all of the otherwise hidden Screeps player information. This application exposed wallet, memory, segment, and console data (which gets stored in ElasticSearch to allow querying of historic data).
python-screeps
StarThis library was the first third party library for the Screeps API and has been responsible for spawning a large third party ecosystem.
screeps_console
StarThis ncurses based terminal application provides a standalone console for the Screeps world.
screeps_notify
StarThis bridges the Screeps world with the real world by allowing users to send notifications programmatically from in game to a number of providers, including Text Messages and Slack Notifications.
screeps-stats
StarUsing a reverse engineered API this project takes data saved inside the game “Screeps”, transforms it and injects it into elasticsearch.
Spawn1
StarThis is a mobile client for the Screeps game built using NativeScript. It has a built in messenger, profiles of different alliances, a websocket based console for interacting with the system, and other informational pages such as the wallet and market order pages.
screepsmod-konami
StarKonami is a Screeps Server mod that changes the world settings to allow AI to grow significantly faster. This makes development easier as longer term issues will show up in smaller amounts of time.
screeps-backup
StarThis tool takes a backup of an existing account's memory and segments and provides the ability to restore from those backups.