Software

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About

Tools for humans. That phrase started as a tagline for Requests and became a design philosophy that shaped everything I've built since.

If the developer feels stupid, the API is wrong.

Major Projects

Requests: HTTP for Humans. The most downloaded Python package on Earth. 60+ million installs a day.
Certifi: Python's SSL trust store. Mozilla's CA bundle, packaged. Even more downloads than Requests.
Responder: A familiar HTTP service framework. Requests semantics, server side. This site runs on it.
Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans. Pip and virtualenv, unified. Spiritual predecessor to uv.
Tablib: Tabular Datasets for Humans. Format-agnostic data. Your dataset knows how to become CSV, JSON, Excel, YAML.

Libraries

SimpleMind: AI for Humans. One interface to every major AI provider.
Records: SQL for Humans. Just write the query. Get results. Export to anything via Tablib.
Maya: Datetimes for Humans. Parse "tomorrow" and get a timezone-aware result.
Legit: Git for Humans. Simple commands for common Git workflows.
Delegator: Subprocesses for Humans. Shell commands without subprocess pain.
dj-database-url: Database URLs for Django. Born at Heroku, used everywhere.
Background: Background tasks. One decorator, no infrastructure.

Creative

PyTheory: Music Theory for Humans. Scales, chords, synthesis, and sequencing as Python objects. Read about its revival with AI.
Infinite State Sample Pack: Open-source synthesizer samples and loops for music production.
Games: A brief adventure in minimalist game development.

Websites

kjvstudy.org: A free digital study Bible built with AI. How it was made.
RhymePad: A scratchpad for poets and rappers that hears the rhymes as you write.
httpbin.org: HTTP request and response testing. Used by millions of developers.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python: Opinionated Python best practices. Later an O'Reilly book.
Poems by Sarah: A publishing platform for my wife's poetry.
More websites: pep8.org, StrainsDB, and this site itself, which is open source.

The Philosophy

Every library starts from the same conviction: find the pain point, study how people actually think about the problem, then design an interface that matches their mental model. The Zen of Python captures it:

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.

These aren't just code rules. They're design rules. The same thinking that produces a clean API produces a clear essay and a well-designed day.

Some projects have been retired or handed to maintainers who care for them better than I could. They live on the legacy shelf, kept for posterity.