David Harvey-Macaulay

Profile

• 中国名字: 锈飞兔 (chosen for me by Ciro Santilli and his wife)
• Nationality: English
• Residence: Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Occupation: Lead software engineer at KittyCAD—opinions are my own
• Email: david@harvey-macaulay.com
• GitHub: alteous

Programming languages

• C: strong (candidate Mastermind subject)
• Rust: solid (I could explain to you how its move sematics differ from C++)
• C++: solid (I could explain to you what std::forward does)
• Python: basic (I can write a crappy website generator with it)

Natural Languages

• English: native proficiency
• Chinese: elementary proficiency

Projects

• gltf-rs: imports 3D scenes described by JSON into game engines etc.
• three-rs: 3D graphics engine inspired by the ever-popular three.js engine
• euler: GLSL inspired mathematics for Rust

Interests

• Aviation
• Rabbits (BunnyVision coming soon!)
• Music
• Mechanical keyboards
• Kerbal Space Program
• The Better than Wolves mod for Minecraft
• Documenting my life on the internet, apparently

Recommendations

• Use duckduckgo.com to browse the web in peace.
• Use rpl to find and replace strings in files. It's friendlier than sed.
• Use redshift to allow your eyes adjust to using the computer during the evening.
• Use the Tango colour palette (try (load-theme 'tango-dark) in emacs).
• Remove blinking cursors to save your sanity.
• Enable sticky keys for comfort and to avoid 'emacs pinky'.
• If, like me, you have long dry hair: read my hair care guide.
• Use a trackball mouse for comfort and space efficiency.

You may also be interested in my favourite sayings.

Holy wars

• Editor: emacs or vim, depending on my mood
• Linux distribution: Ubuntu
• Desktop environment: GNOME 3 or i3wm, depending on my mood
• Programming language for desert island: Rust
• Indentation: 4 spaces—no more, no less
• Braces: K&R
• One true naming convention: snake_case
• One true text encoding: UTF-8
• Numeric base: dozenal

Source

The source code for this website is licensed under the MIT licence. The HTML pages are generated from Markdown using a quick-and-dirty Python script. The source code is available on GitHub for you to observe with horror!

I've been asked a few times why I wrote my own site generator rather than use an existing static site generator. There are two reasons: (1) it's an exercise for me to learn some Python; (2) I wanted a minimalistic website.