johanv.xyz, my chill website
Hi, I'm Johan Vandegriff, and this is johanv.xyz: my new, awesome, spectacular, and chill website! Here's a random interesting fact about me:
I try to use mostly open source software, for example Krita instead of Photoshop and Libreoffice instead of Microsoft Office.
Drawings
This is a drawing I made of the Erasable Inc. improv group at the University of Maryland (UMD) after their 24-hour show.
For this drawing and others, I used the free and open source drawing software Krita, a Wacom tablet, and a Manjaro Linux laptop. I've also made some drawings on physical media.
Videos
This video is for a propsed research project for Gemstone at UMD. I ended up joining another project instead, but I still have the initial version and plan to make it into a product someday.
Games
You can play Boggle, a multiplayer word game, talk to CARL, a chatbot that learns phrases from you, or play some of my other games, including some old ones written in perl.
CARL says:Projects
Here are some of my projects:
- ArduinOLED - A handheld Arduino-based platform to create games, test equipment, and other projects. Learn how to make and use it!
- HexaGame - A handheld multi-game system that consists of a hexagon of LEDs with buttons surrounding it, as well as a hex-shaped dpad.
- GAMES (Glamorous Automatic Multi-game Emulator System) - A tiny Arduino game system with a 3x3 LED screen and 4 buttons.
- Calculator - A calculator you can run in the terminal.
- Quest Game - A roguelike game I am working on.
- asocialsafety.net (archived) - The website for a hackathon project my friends and I made.
- My Config Files - Some files with settings the way I like them, with descriptions.
Blog
Here's a snippet from a quintessential blog post of mine:
Log.e() – Tales from the electron Volts
An account follows of the myriad of adventures I have had with the electronVolts. My aim is that the narrative shall be as accurate as possible and will serve useful in reference during future events.
Saturday, October 1, 2016
We were visited by a band of rookies. They do not perceive the insurmountable tasks that lie ahead of them. I attempted to affright them by disclosing to them the monster that is The Code, but alas, they took an interest in this beast. I fear there is no way to warn them; their days ahead appear grim.
The Great Git attacked our code today. I researched its weaknesses in the Archives of Google and found individuals who were in a similar predicament. Armed with this knowledge, we were able to send it howling back from whence it came.
Resume
NASA GSFC Internship
summer 2017
I fixed bugs in C code for NASA’s core Flight System by writing unit tests on a CentOS Linux virtual machine (using VirtualBox). To help write unit tests, I wrote some bash scripts to generate skeleton functions, then filled them in manually with code to test each case. At the end of the summer, I created a poster and presented it at a lab-wide showcase day.
Contact
Feel free to contact me, I have multiple ways to get in touch securely. You can also follow me on Mastodon or find me at any of the other links on the right sidebar of this page.