Alex Sayers

Hi, I'm Alex! I'm originally from Northumberland, England. I studied Physics and Philosophy at Oxford. I lived in Switzerland for a few years, where I worked as a software engineer, writing Haskell. Since then, I've been living in Japan and working for Tsuru Capital. I'm still a software engineer, but these days I write Rust. You can contact me by email at alex@<this domain>.

Recipe book

About me

Hobbies

I'm a member of Shōryū Matsuridaiko, a modern-style eisa troupe.
I practise aikido at Azabu Dojo; I'm Aikikai 1-dan.
I sing with Tokyo Embassy Choir and the Tokyo Chamber Singers.
I play the sanshin, which is something a bit like a shamisen.
I also love skiing and camping.

Old stuff

I haven't played much go recently, but I'm still technically a 9-kyu at the Nihon Ki-in.
I sang with the Newcastle Bach Choir and was a choral scholar at Brasenose College, Oxford. I also sang with the choirs of St Giles', Oxford, St Andrew's, Zurich, and St Alban's, Tokyo.
I did Scottish Country Dancing with the Zurich SCD club and with various Tokyo-based clubs. I was a member of the RSCDS Tokai branch and JSS. I also used to help out with the Tokyo SCD group. I have called several ceilidhs and addressed several haggises.
I was in the Oxford Socrates Society (a philosophy discussion group).
I was a coxwain in my collage boat club.
I was responsible for the creation of the infamous Brasenose bust.
I used to do SCUBA diving, but haven't done it in a while. (PADI, advanced open water)

Software

tass: A pager for tabular data.
livesort: Like 'sort' but with live preview.
cbdr: Helps you run validation benchmarks in your CI.
orpa: Track which commits you've reviewed.
tailsrv: tail -f in server form
git-absolve: Shows the number of lines modified by each person.
repay: Computes the most efficient way for everyone to repay their debts.
Maybe some other stuff too?

Old stuff

gitlab-sync: A gitlab -> git-series bridge.
git-scripts: Misc. git stuff.

Libraries

epimetheus: An easy-to-use metrics library.
pcarp: A library for reading pcap-ng files.
html-builder: Flexible and convenient HTML generation
Maybe some other stuff too?

Old stuff

priomutex: A mutex where where high-priority threads get woken up first.
panic-monitor: Lets you block until some thread panics.
burst_pool: An SPMC channel for opportunistic work-stealing.
easybench: A minimalistic benchmarking framework.
bitset: A fixed-size bitset.