Domain of the Bored

Stuff I've made

to be read by computers

Apple Extended Keyboard II Overlay Generator, an app to make printable function-key overlays for that keyboard
Beads, an entry in the zeroth Iron Coder contest
A self-randomizing bingo game for Apple keynotes (starting with WWDC 2006) in Encapsulated PostScript format
BZSoundboard, an app that lets you play sounds at short notice
EasyMD5, an app to show you the MD5 hash of the contents of a file
GiantColorSwatch, an app that shows a large window filled with a color; you select the size and color
image, a utility to scale and convert images
An ISO 8601 date and time parser and unparser
List Files, an app that recursively lists a folder (wrapper on ls -AFklR)
LMX, an XML parser that works backwards
Some plus and minus images for you to use on Add and Remove buttons in your app
A set of standard feed icons for Safari
A program to generate a starburst in PDF format
UTI Property List Helper, an application to make it easy to declare and use Uniform Type Identifiers in your Info.plist

And some other stuff that I don't have up here yet. Some of it isn't finished; the others aren't up only because I am too lazy or busy to have prepped a release.

to be read by humans

My blog, also titled Domain of the Bored
My tumblelog, titled Thoughts of the Bored

How to Draw Beads, a breakdown of the images used in Beads
A photo-illustrated guide to replacing the hard drive in your G4 Cube
The worst possible Hello World, with a study of why it sucks
I feel good about Mac open source: links to many people's reusable Mac source code
The iPhone Application Graveyard, a catalog of applications that Apple has pulled (or, in some cases, rejected) from their App Store
An examination of what happens when you compress an empty file
Everything you need to know about pointers in C (the most popular thing on this site)
Screencast codec showdown!: A comparison of the quality and file-size of different QuickTime video encoders' handling of a sample screencast
A meditation on rotating a raster image
A vi/vim cheatsheet for Dvorak or QWERTY

I've written some other things, but many are not finished, and some are too big.

Contacting me

You can contact me by email. Spammers, however, are not welcome; do not send me advertisements.

In order to defeat spammers' email-address-harvesting bots, I must express my email address in a manner that is human-readable but not computer-readable. To that end:

In case you don't know, an email address is constructed from:

The username. The username on my email address is “prh”.
A U+0022 COMMERCIAL AT symbol (@).
The hostname of the mail server. This is the same hostname as this web server. Don't include the “www.” if you used it; use only the domain name.

Domain of the Bored

The website of Peter Hosey

About me

Stuff I've made

to be read by computers

to be read by humans

Contacting me