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Michael Forney

michaelforney
Cupertino, California

I work on lots of free software projects, usually related to Linux, POSIX, C, systems, and graphics.

My values include:

  • Portability to the relevant standards (POSIX, ISO C, ...)
  • Simplicity, meaning code that is easy for someone unfamiliar to understand and make changes, without dependencies that don't have this property.
  • Correctness and robustness.
  • Fixing problems at the source, rather than working around them, even if it means more work.
  • Licensing software so anyone can use it for any purpose (i.e. MIT/BSD/ISC).

My current projects include:

  • samurai: a small reimplementation of the ninja build tool in C for POSIX systems.
  • sbase: I am the maintainer of this collection of portable UNIX tools.
  • cproc: a C11 compiler aiming to build a large amount of code found in the wild.
  • oasis: a linux distribution, probably more similar to a BSD, that combines a bunch of light-weight software alternatives into a complete system.
  • libtls-bearssl: an implementation of libtls using BearSSL
  • swc: a small wayland compositor framework, much lighter on code and dependencies compared to the alternatives.
  • velox: a dwm clone built on top of swc

I also contribute to a variety of other projects including qbe, musl, and many others.

My work on oasis also has many further reaching effects. I regularly send patches to essential linux system software to ensure that they follow the relevant standards and work with alternative implementations of tools and libraries. Examples:

  • Changed some linux kernel build scripts to use more portable shell scripts and tool invocations.
  • Changed objtool, used in the linux kernel build, to support linking with libelf from elftoolchain.
  • Added support for BearSSL to curl.
  • Countless patches to many other projects fixing ISO C conformance issues.

Current sponsors 3

@seanjensengrey
@stijlist
@JanKoppe

Past sponsors 2

@elimisteve
Private Sponsor

Featured work

  1. michaelforney/samurai

    ninja-compatible build tool written in C

  2. michaelforney/cproc

    C11 compiler (mirror)

  3. oasislinux/oasis

    a small statically-linked linux system

    Roff 2,727
  4. michaelforney/sbase

    Portable UNIX tools (personal repository)

  5. michaelforney/swc

    a library for making a simple Wayland compositor

  6. michaelforney/libtls-bearssl

    libtls implemented on top of BearSSL

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