Latest update: First 'jim' beta is available!
Hi, I'm puppy!
You may also know me as duckie, duckinator, or Ellen because I seem to collect names the same way I collect domains.
I'm a programmer and musician, based in Brockton, MA.
I primarily program in Rust, C, Python, and Ruby.
I helped maintain RubyGems from 2015 to 2025, and have also worked on dist.
I know way too much about the POSIX standard, build/release tools, automation, continuous integration/release processes, and automation.
My music is on Bandcamp and the Internet Archive, under the CC-BY 4.0 license.
You may also be interested in my photography and drawings.
My name is a typography pun. Ellen Marie Dash. EM Dash.
Recent Updates
- 29 Oct 2025 First 'jim' beta is available!
- 09 Oct 2025 Communities build out, not up
- 08 Oct 2025 On RubyGems & Governance
- 05 Oct 2025 Gem Coop: Don't put all your gems in one basket
- 18 Sep 2025 Goodbye, RubyGems.
Notable Projects
Notable personal projects:
- chttpd
- an HTTP/1.1 server written in C, which can manage over 20,000 requests per second on hardware from 2018.
- Emanate
- a Python tool for managing symlinks, akin to Effuse or Stow.
- Bork
- a Python build system for PEP 517-compatible projects, with the ability to push releases to PyPI (and, soon, to GitHub).
- Boreutils
- a collection of POSIX-compliant utilities (with some common-but-not-standardized additions) written in C.
- versions.do1g.com
- a website comparing software versions across operating systems.