Connor Gray’s Home On The Internet

Hi, I’m Connor Gray 👋.

This website is where I host things I’ve written, mostly about software development.

Ordinary posts are filed away under one of the sections shown below, but occasionally I’ll write off-the-cuff asides about interesting facets of problems I’m working on in my Project Log.

Open Source Projects

ConnorGray/Organizer — a TODO and document management application that I use to organize everything I do. Overview »

ConnorGray/Diagrams — computational diagramming, with high-level diagram functions making quick, repeatable diagramming easy

ConnorGray/NotebookWebsiteTools — a notebook-based static website generator (which I use to author this website)

ConnorGray/Markdown — a compliant Markdown parser with a symbolic representation for construction and manipulation, as well as Markdown Notebook editor support.

ConnorGray/Vilfram — Vi-like editing for Wolfram Notebooks

wolfram-library-link — Rust bindings to the Wolfram LibraryLink interface

markdown-ast — Rust library for parsing, manipulating, and constructing Markdown as an abstract syntax tree (AST)

clap-markdown — Rust library for generating CLI reference documentation for clap apps as Markdown

wolfram-app-discovery — CLI tool and Rust library for discovering local Wolfram installations

wolfram-cli — Experimental CLI tool providing a prettier CLI interface to Wolfram

wolfram-client — Rust client library for launching and sending commands to a Wolfram evaluator

md2nb — Markdown to Wolfram Notebook converter CLI program

Projects

These pages describe some of the projects I’ve worked on.

Reference Pages

These documents are non-narrative collections of techniques and conventions that I’ve learned or developed and have found to be useful.

Creating A New Rust Crate

This document contains a set of templates and content that I use by convention in many of the Rust projects I’ve worked on. This list functions as a checklist that can be referenced when creating a new Rust crate and associated source repository, ensuring projects have a consistent level of quality and polish. If these conventions are useful to you, feel free to follow or adapt them in your projects.
Personal Software Practices

I have a lot of projects that I work on. Over the years, I’ve developed some simple, straightforward conventions that apply across languages and project types. Following these conventions helps lower the “context switching” cost. Many of these practices are essentially arbitrary in their details, but I try to follow them because simply having some convention saves time and increases readability, even if they’re not perfect.
Standards

A collection of standards I’ve come across. Standards are nice.
Tips & Tricks for Documentation

This document contains tips and tricks for writing better documentation. In particular, it focuses on methods for adding better graphical content to documentation.
Tips & Tricks for Apps in Wolfram

This document contains an overview of useful features and techniques for implementing apps that leverage the capabilities of Wolfram Notebooks. Several useful conventions are also described.