Ian Webster

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I'm a software engineer at Room 77, where I work on many things encompassing frontend, backend, production infrastructure, and so on, mostly in JavaScript and C++.

Some projects

• 2013
  • Watchtower, a service that monitors your business competition, finalist at LAUNCH hackathon
  • Asterank v2, major updates including new data/viz view and scientific APIs, featured on BBC News
  • Verified Facts, a conspiracy theory generator (viral with nearly half a million conspiracies generated)
  • In 2013 Dollars, a quick reference site for inflation
• 2012
  • Six Degrees of Bowie, a graph of musical influencers
  • web-workers-fallback, a web worker compatibility layer for older browsers
  • github-participation-graph, an extension that makes repo activity graphs nicer
  • World of Loot, pinterest-style MMO wishlists
  • Asterank 3D, a scientifically accurate interactive visualization our solar system, coverage by Popular Science, Smithsonian Magazine (Google Chrome Experiment, in HTML5, JavaScript Weeklies)
  • fb-unsee, a Chrome extension that stops Facebook from telling people when you've read their messages
  • Asterank, a comprehensive scientific and economic catalog, as seen in Science Illustrated, Universe Today, The Daily Mail, etc.
  • GiftHorse, a revenue-generating gift suggestion engine, still in progress
  • TextBelt, a completely free texting API (tutorial writeups here, here)
  • KeepDream, email-based dream logs
• 2011
  • Typpo's Software, MMORPG automation used millions of times by tens of thousands of people (2006-2011)
  • Dartmouth Last Chances, over 400 "connections" during senior week
  • Facebook Defriend Notifications
  • wowzer, which conducts arbitrage in a digital crafted goods economy
  • VoiceBox, a very simple voice-to-Dropbox Android app
• 2010
  • lok, a curses-based encrypted journal/notes editor in C
  • Gilded Age, a newspaper content analysis and visualization project