About Me

    Folks that like me call me "metz".

  • Studied Physics at NC State
  • Specialized in IT and networking for the US Army
  • Web Dev and Cloud Infrastructure for iFixit

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Resume →

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My online resume, with dark mode and a print-to-PDF button for download.

Implemented on Astro, and statically hosted from AWS. Peek the source for the Terraform used to host it.

Advent of Code 2025 →

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Twelve Days of Christmas programming challenges.

This year's solutions implemented in Ruby.

Othello →

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An implementation of Othello (also called Reversi)

Implemented on Astro as a Vue component. Statically hosted from AWS, and the game runs client-side.

Ideagen →

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A Photography Idea Generator

Generates a random inspiration for a photo subject. Sets of subjects, styles, and qualifiers are selected randomly from different classes: things, people, places, abstract.

Implemented on Astro as a Vue component. Statically hosted from AWS, and the tool itself is client-side.

Pixatar →

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A Pixel Avatar image generator

Statically hosted from AWS, and client-only.

An exploration of using the Leptos framework, which compiles Rust to WASM for client-side rendering.

I had made an ASCII pixel art of my username to use as my GitHub avatar. When a co-worker asked what it was, i decided to implement generating these as a tool, to share.

An interesting note about this tool is that it bundles an entire libpng implementation. The PNG image is generated client-side, and dropped into the DOM as a data URL for downloading.

Advent of Code 2024 →

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25 Days of Christmas programming challenges. And the ten year anniversary of the challenge.

This year's solutions implemented in Julia.

This was my first introduction to Julia, and the exercise taught me a lot. It's a fascinating language, and very powerful. It turned out to also be quite adept at implementing solutions to these kinds of programming problems.

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