I’m James Smith, software engineer and entrepreneur with a British accent based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently having
fun with hardware, software and reverse engineering. Formerly co-founder at Bugsnag, CTO at Heyzap.
I’m @loopj.com on Bluesky and I’m active on Discord.
Projects
- WavePhoenix
- Open-source implementation of the Nintendo WaveBird protocol using Silicon Labs Wireless Gecko SoCs
- Short Stack
- World’s smallest Nintendo Wii, using a trimmed motherboard and custom stacked PCBs
- Home Assistant Vantage and aiovantage
- Home Assistant integration and Python library for Vantage InFusion home automation controllers
- Open RTS
- Open implementation of the Somfy RTS shade control protocol for microcontrollers
- Asynchronous Http Client for Android
- Asynchronous callback-based HTTP client for Android used by Instagram, Pinterest, Trello and many other large
apps.
- jQuery Tokeninput
- jQuery plugin for selecting multiple items from a predefined list, using autocompletion as you type to find each
item. Used by Twitter and many other large sites.
- jQuery Simple Slider
- Unobtrusive jQuery plugin for selecting a value from a numerical range by simply dragging a slider.
- Android Smart Image View
- Drop-in replacement for Android’s standard ImageView which allows images to be loaded from URLs or the phone’s
contact address book. Images are cached to memory and to disk for super fast loading.