black-and-white photograph of elliot b. he is a 30-something man with fair skin, thick glasses, and dark brown hair. Behind him is a brick wall.
fig.1: me, 2026

my name's elliot.

i live in providence, rhode island.
i spend part of my time in front of machines, in both frustration and excitement.

selected works

  • Forklift (live here)

    a React-based dynamic table view for large github repository fork networks. use-case: getting a detailed sense of many forks with useful commits, ahead of the parent.

  • Dirman

    a command-line utility using xxHash3 to quickly diff two folder trees. use-case: quickly finding differences between the file structure of personal archives, and merging them.

  • Detawks

    a loose Node.js port of detox, the Unix file-name-cleansing utility. fully customizable via chainable trasform functions, contained within local user config.

  • Athree

    pseudo-cryptographically-secure (and cute) animal-based IDs!

  • Neighbors

    a generative, cute, and minimal poem made with the web-based port of RiTa (uses my own refactoring of the library.).

odds & ends