SwapOff is the online home ofAlec Thomas.

I live in New York with my beautiful wifeChristine and our joy, our baby girl,Eloise.

I am a software engineer with a passion for building robust, scalable systems. I'm currently a cofounder atWharf. Prior to jumping out of the corporate plane I worked atTwitter as tech lead on theircrawling infrastructure,Julpan working on real time search, andGoogle onGoogle Wave, amongothers.

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DevTodo is a small command line application for maintaining lists of tasks. Itstores tasks hierarchically, with each task given one of five priority levels.

On Dir is a program that automatically executes scripts as you traversedirectories at a terminal.

Oink differs from similar efforts in that it is very light-weight, and tries tobe as thin a layer as possible between Python and Javascript.

Projected text shadows using Javascript and CSS.

A recent AskReddit posed the question"What does Reddit look like?".This is my answer to that question.