I'm Nat, or icco. I've been building software since the early 2000s. I love building cli and web tools, and spend a lot of time #datahoarding. I try to do everything in the open, so all of my personal code in FOSS, and most of my thoughts are public on subdomains of https://natwelch.com.
When I'm not writing code, I like hiking, fly fishing, reading, writing, and listening to and making music.
@erinbern@fosstodon.org @josias just in case yall were wondering, i misremembered the function, but here is what I was looking for
referenced in this article
Rebuilt https://natwelch.com and merged my public wiki into it. Still redoing a bunch of content, but I'm happy with the new look. Code at github.com/icco/natwelch.com
Preach! Such great advice: https://mattambrogi.bearblog.dev/make-a-lot/
I shared this on the birdsite a little while ago, but figured I'd share how much money I've made from my two nonfiction computer programming books. Note this is pre-taxes, but just what I get from publishers, and not raw sales.
I view sharing information as the goal, not making money, in these endeavors, but it still shocks me when I look at this chart.
In 2019, pipenv made no releases. Changeset helped them get back on track in 2020, and they stayed on track in 2021. Their first 2022 release just came out. How I did it, in ~15 hours of work: https://harihareswara.net/posts/2020/breaking-release-bottlenecks-what-changeset-can-do/
I also spoke about it at openSUSE: https://media.ccc.de/v/3531-live-rescue-and-renew-a-project
Announcing the Merveilles forums:
https://forum.merveilles.town/
Brought to life by the forum software, Cerca: https://github.com/cblgh/cerca
Finally finished my year in review post: https://writing.natwelch.com/post/717
Always love seeing peoples time logging tools: https://chaidarun.com/ten-years-of-logging-my-life
Oh, and if you want to follow along, the source is at https://github.com/icco/locative.garden
I'm putting together a book of fiction short stories based on location, technology, nature and art. It'll be available for free at https://locative.garden, but if you want a physical copy, you can back the project at http://kck.st/3Ft2AHf
This work is inspired by all of the amazing things folks have posted on Merveilles over the past two years. I know I'm not the most active user, but you all inspire me constantly. #theWorkshop
I use jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) alot. Today I learned about mlr, which is just as cool (https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
I learned about the amazing proquints (an easy to pronounce UUID) a few years ago, but today took the time to write out a simplified version of the algorithm: https://github.com/icco/proquint #theWorkshop
https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/ - very reminiscent of stuff folks are doing here
Software developer & Author living in NY.