README.md

About Me

I'm a 30 years old software engineer based in Helsinki, Finland. I'm originally from Iran and have been living and working in Finland since 2015. I'm the co-creator of Buttercup and co-founder of MadDev, a company that my friend and colleague (Perry) and I have founded together as a result of creating Buttercup.

This repo is meant to give you an idea about my work and career as a programmer, and more importantly, a place to remind myself of things that matter to me.

This document is a Work in Progress. I doubt that it will be an interest to anyone but myself, but if you're curious, you can watch the repo for changes.

Table of Contents

• Programming Languages
• My Software
  • JavaScript / TypeScript / NodeJS
  • Swift
  • VSCode Extensions & Themes
  • PHP
• Active Contributions
• My Writing
• Multimedia

Programming Languages

• JavaScript (and it's family) is my main programming language and I use it at work and for my own projects too. I especially like the typed variations of JavaScript (namely Typescript and Flow) and I use NodeJS for systems programming and embedded systems too.
• Rust. I have been learning and experimenting with Rust for a while. I'll be using it for systems/server programming.
• Swift. I learned Swift a while back to make my own native iOS app. I've been using it here and there for solving some problems.
• PHP. Before the Javascript revolution (2009+), I was a full-time php developer for many years. Github wasn't popular (and didn't exist) back then so I don't have much to show for it except the infamous (and now deprecated) JDateTime.

And many more languages that I had to learn and experiment with during my years as a programmer. Notably Java, QBasic, Visual Basic and C#. I'm open to learning new tools and languages and I appreciate good code in any language. But for the time being, my languages of choice will remain JS and Rust.

My Software

Legend:

• ⭐️: Very Active / Popular
• ⚠️: Obsolete / Unmaintained
• 🛠: Fork / Unoriginal Code / Inherited

JavaScript / TypeScript / NodeJS

• Buttercup - Free & Open Source Password Manager ⭐️
• stringz - Zero dependency unicode aware string manipulation library ⭐️
• github-contributions-chart - Generate an image of your GitHub Contributions ⭐️
• github-contributions-api - The API for github-contributions-chart ⭐️
• github-contributions-canvas - The canvas renderer github-contributions-chart ⭐️
• unicode-astral-regex - Regex for matching unicode astral symbols ⭐️
• sqs-parallel - Simple helper to work with Amazon SQS with concurrency support ⭐️
• country-tools - Simple helper to fetch country information (currency, name, etc) ⭐️
• dropbox-fs - Node fs-like wrapper for Dropbox API ⭐️
• node-mac-app-icon - Get App icons in macOS by their pid ⭐️
• mac-local-rtmp-server - A local RTMP stream server for macOS ⭐️
• led-matrix - An HTML5 LED Matrix on Canvas ⭐️
• matrix-display-store - A utility for storing graphical data in a matrix store. ⭐️
• led-matrix-simulator - HTML5 LED Matrix simulator
• rpi-matrix - A RaspberryPi LED Matrix Display program
• check-os-tray-support - A tool for checking if Tray icon is available on the current OS
• i18next-sync-fs-backend - Sync fs backend for i18next 🛠
• styled-flexbox - Flexbox tools written for styled-components
• lunchify-scraper - Scrapes Finnish restaurants lunch menus
• lunchify-api - An API for Lunchify app
• hexo-deployer-s3-simple - A simpler S3 deployer plugin for Hexo
• top-tweets - Retweets top tweets on Twitter based on queries
• promise-arrays - A tool to work with arrays using Promises. ⚠️
• SVGDraw - A simple SVG-based drawing program in HTML5

Swift

• GetAppIcon - Get App Icons by pid in macOS
• lunchify-swift - Lunchify App for iOS

VSCode Extensions & Themes

• vscode-duotone-dark - DuoTone theme port for VSCode
• vscode-json-to-js-object - Simple helper for converting json to js objecs

PHP

• JDateTime - Jalali/Shamsi date for php ⚠️
• laravel-jdate - JDateTime plugin for Laravel 3 ⚠️

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👉 And many more forks, hobbies and experiments...

Active Contributions

The projects I actively contribute to, or manage and maintain:

• Buttercup - Buttercup is a free and open source password manager for Desktop, Mobile and Browsers. Perry and I have been working on Buttercup since September 2015.
• Kap - Screen recorder for Mac.

My Writing

• Blog
• Blog in Persian - Since 2004
• Medium Account - Not very active

Multimedia

I'm streaming video and audio to the following services:

• SoundCloud - Podcast in Persian
• Youtube - Coding Live Streaming Sessions in English and Persian