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**Hi 👋, I'm Sean.**
I'm a developer and future Portuguese Water Dog owner.
I work for
<a href="https://hypothes.is/">Hypothesis</a> and live in
<del>Berlin</del>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>.
This is my site where you can find my posts and a list of
some of my [projects](#projects).
You can also find me on [GitHub](https://github.com/seanh/),
[Gist](https://gist.github.com/seanh/public),
[Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1175266)
and [Pinboard](https://pinboard.in/u:seanh).
If you want to get in touch you can
[send me an email](&#109;ai&#x6C;&#x74;&#x6F;:&#x68;&#x65;&#108;&#108;o&#64;&#115;&#x65;a&#110;h&#46;&#99;&#x63;).

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Projects
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### [Oatcake](https://seanh.cc/jekyll-theme-oatcake) <span class="subtitle">(2019)</span>

My GitHub Pages theme.

### Find Me <span class="subtitle">(2011)</span>

An iPad game for children with autism.
App store:
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/findme-pro/id635871171?mt=8">pro version</a>,
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/findme-autism/id491925436?mt=8">free version</a>.
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16534678">BBC news article</a>,
<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212868916300320">journal paper</a>.

### [Story Maps](https://www.seanh.cc/storymaps) <span class="subtitle">(2005&ndash;2011)</span>

A story authoring application for children, developed for <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5294">my PhD thesis</a>.

### CKAN

I used to work for [Open Knowledge](https://okfn.org/) as a core developer on the [CKAN project](https://ckan.org/).
Some of my CKAN work:

* Tutorials (2014, archived copies):
  * <a href="/docs.ckan.org/en/latest/extensions">Plugin writing</a>
  * <a href="/docs.ckan.org/en/latest/theming">Theming</a>
  * <a href="/docs.ckan.org/en/latest/theming/javascript.html">JavaScript</a>
  * <a href="/docs.ckan.org/en/latest/contributing/string-i18n.html">Internationalisation</a>
  * <a href="/docs.ckan.org/en/latest/contributing/documentation.html">Documentation guidelines</a>
  * <a href="/docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api">API guide</a>
  * <a href="/docs.ckan.org/en/latest/contributing">Contributing guide</a>
  * <a href="/open-data-licensing-and-ckan.pdf">Open Data Licensing Workshop</a>
* CKAN extensions:
  * <a href="https://github.com/ckan/deadoralive">Dead or Alive</a> (2014), check websites for broken links
  * <a href="/posts/datapackager">Data Packager</a> (2014), a web app for making tabular data packages
  * <a href="/posts/functional-core-imperative-shell">OAuth 2.0 Support for CKAN</a> (2014)
  * <a href="https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-persona">Mozilla Persona Support for CKAN</a> (2014)

### Edinburgh University Java Screencasts <span class="subtitle">(2008)</span>

I used to work as a computer programming lecturer at Edinburgh University and
created the online version of the [Introduction to Java Programming](http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ijp)
course:
<a href="http://media.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ijp/chapter_one/chapter_one.htm">1. Objects and classes</a>,
<a href="http://media.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ijp/chapter_two/chapter_two.htm">2. Understanding class definitions</a>,
<a href="http://media.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ijp/chapter_three/chapter_three.htm">3. Object interaction</a>,
<a href="http://media.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ijp/chapter_four/chapter_four.htm">4. Grouping objects</a>,
<a href="http://media.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ijp/chapter_five/chapter_five.htm">5. More sophisticated behaviour</a>,
<a href="http://media.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ijp/chapter_six/chapter_six.htm">6. Well-behaved objects</a>,
<a href="http://media.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ijp/chapter_seven/chapter_seven.htm">7. Designing classes</a>,
<a href="http://media.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ijp/chapter_eight/chapter_eight.htm">8. Improving structure with inheritance</a>,
<a href="http://media.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ijp/chapter_nine/chapter_nine.htm">9. More about inheritance</a>,
<a href="http://media.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ijp/chapter_ten/chapter_ten.htm">10. Further abstraction techniques</a>,
<a href="http://media.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ijp/chapter_eleven/chapter_eleven.htm">11. Building graphical user interfaces.</a>

### <a href="https://www.seanh.cc/PandaSteer">PandaSteer</a> <span class="subtitle">(2006)</span>

Computer game characters that follow, chase, flee, and avoid obstacles and collisions.
Also <a href="http://github.com/seanh/PandaZUI">PandaZUI</a>, a zoomable user-interface framework.

### UNIX Command Line Tools and Dotfiles

* [My ripgrep config](https://github.com/seanh/ripgrep) (2019)
* [My Openbox config](https://github.com/seanh/openbox) (2018)
* <a href="https://github.com/seanh/dwm">My DWM config</a> <span class="subtitle">(2015)</span>
* <a href="https://github.com/ckan/losser">Losser</a> (2014), a little JSON to CSV converter
* <a href="https://www.seanh.cc/terminal_velocity">Terminal Velocity</a> (2012), a fast note-taking app for the UNIX terminal
* <a href="https://github.com/seanh/snapshotter">Snapshotter</a> (2011), very easy incremental snapshot backups

### Gedit Plugins

[gedit-autoname](https://github.com/seanh/gedit-autoname) and [gedit-smart-autosave](https://github.com/seanh/gedit-smart-autosave).

### Websites

I sometimes make websites for people:

* <a href="/theforest.org.uk">Forest</a> (circa 2010, archived copy),
  a free arts and events space masquerading as a vegetarian café
* <a href="/infoseed.org">Infoseed</a> <span class="subtitle">(circa 2007, archived copy)</span>
* <a href="/ottawanosweat">Ottawa No Sweat Coalition</a> <span class="subtitle">(circa 2005, archived copy)</span>

### PyBlosxom <span class="subtitle">(2005&ndash;2015)</span>

My PyBlosxom plugins and themes:
<a href="https://github.com/seanh/pyblosxommtimecache">mtimecache</a>,
<a href="https://github.com/seanh/pyblosxomdrafts">drafts</a>,
<a href="https://github.com/seanh/html5.flav">HTML5 theme</a>,
<a href="http://github.com/seanh/PyBlosxom-tumblelog">tumblelog</a>,
<a href="http://github.com/seanh/PyBlosxom-metadate">metadate</a>,
<a href="http://github.com/seanh/PyBlosxom-Python-Markdown-2-Plugin">markdown</a>,
<a href="http://github.com/seanh/PyBlosxom-vessel">Vessel</a>
and <a href="/scribbish/">Scribbish</a>.

### <a href="/dissertation.pdf">Navigating 3D Environments</a> <span class="subtitle">(2004, PDF)</span>

A non-player character that navigates complex 3D environments (Quake III
levels), created for my undergraduate dissertation.