What I Made In 2016

This year, the company I work for, Captain Train, was purchased by its English counterpart, Trainline. I added support for American Express BTA lodged cards, upgraded the SNCF integration to support their new fare systems, and worked on the common format for carriers.

In open-source, I made the following.

• A natural-language-processing bot library queread, in order to power travelbot, a CLI and Slack bot system which you can ask for travel information across Europe. It uses travel-scrapper, which relies on the Trainline websites for data.
• A multiplayer musical editor on top of TheFileTree, as a flexible textual editor. See this example.
• Email-Login is now robust and ready to use.
• Spash, a geohash-inspired Spacetime locator.
• The json-diff gem offers a brand-new algorithm for diffing JSON content, with support for in-array object move operations as a first-class citizen, unlike existing LCS-based approaches, resulting in better output. I even published a blog post on Trainline’s blog.
• The json-api-vanilla gem parses JSONAPI payloads (ie. JSON with references, to support object graphs with reference cycles, etc.) and converts it to vanilla Ruby objects, with references correctly hooked up, without any class definition needed, unlike what existed before that.
• The Canop protocol was finalized and implemented. This commit in particular finally implemented proper index shifting for intention preservation, so that people can edit the same text file simultaneously without losing their changes.
• The json-sync project sprung out of the Canop effort. Unlike Canop, it cannot yet perform intention preservation. However, its design supports peer-to-peer networks, unlike Canop which is centralized.

I took greater concern in explaining my projects. People wouldn’t understand the schematics for the first automobile, but a simple demonstration is enough to blow everybody’s mind.

Previously.