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• 🕸️ https://jamesgibson.co
• https://github.com/james-gibson

• local-time-system | (wip) a comprehensive TypeScript library for managing temporal universes, cross-universe references, and temporal relationships. It provides a sophisticated framework for tracking time across fictional and real works, with support for zero-reference addressing, temporal paradoxes, and complex reference chains

import { UniverseBuilder } from '@local-time/temporal-system';

const universe = new UniverseBuilder()
  .film('disney', 'mary_poppins', 1964)
  .withRuntime(139) // minutes
  .withRealityRelation('pure_fiction', 1.0)
  .withCopyright(['Walt Disney Productions'], 1964, 'active')
  .withCulturalSignificance(0.98)
  .addRuntimeKeyframe(87, 15, 'umbrella_descent', 0.95, ['iconic', 'magical'])
  .build();

const universe = new UniverseBuilder()
  .historicalEvent('jfk_assassination', 1963)
  .withDateRange(1963, 11, 22, 1963, 11, 22, TimePrecision.SECOND)
  .withRealityRelation('documentary', 0.0)
  .withPublicDomain(['Warren Commission Report'])
  .addDateKeyframe(1963, 11, 22, 12, 30, 0, 'first_shot', 1.0, ['assassination'])
  .build();

import { LocalTime } from '@local-time/temporal-system';

const localTime = new LocalTime();
await localTime.initialize();

// Find universes in 1964
const windowSearch = localTime.getWindowSearch();
const universes = await windowSearch.findUniversesInWindow('cal:1964');

// Get specific universe
const registry = localTime.getRegistry();
const maryPoppins = registry.getUniverse('disney:mary_poppins:1964');

• (mcp)

• Project, Art?

• (personal api)

• Converting his homelab onto low voltage hardware to maximize utilization of local solar production
• Created reverse proxies for my applications to minimize puncturing my home firewall and to centralize TLS management
• My homelab supports multiple federated react apps backed by a shared node.js api

• I use the lab to explore things like
  • Personal Github application posts web-hook security updates that I convert into test content for my markdown exploration
  • Project, Art? started as an exploration in rendering MDX into JSX securely using nonce or sha CSPs)
  • Personal MCP server directly connected to Project, Art? via a simple SExpression pattern
    • LLM's speak markdown, this is intended to allow me to repeatably create prompts and artifacts
    • The native MDX support already baked in means custom webcomponents can be utilized by the LLM
    • Custom webcomponents in my understanding is the next natural evolution of model response
    • Advanced RAG indexing is currently being planned for future research and implementation
  • Custom application protocols and advanced data management via service workers
  • OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591) to support QR-code addressed view adoption, complete with privacy focused
  • Combining HTTP status code 402 with 418 to create a intra-microservice based payment system middleware themed around cups of tea as units of measure

• Designed and led multiple technical code migrations with zero unscheduled hours of developer downtime
• Stabilized core website delivery pipelines for multiple FortuneX companies
  • I've battled with google bot and k8s, both in winning and losing
  • Unrecursed 1.3m npm modules while maintaining production shipping ability
  • Generalized statement: 7 minutes to build, lint, and test. 7 minutes to ship
    • Its not always possible but the intention adds up to hundreds of saved developer hours
• Supported active design system impimentation and automation
  • Created scripts that calculated if downstream repos were falling out of design compliance (mandated by a11y legal requirements)
• Inherited eleven mongodb instances and developed solution to collapse them into a single database instance / api
  • The system used the OpLog for its Meteor.js integration, due to the number of active clients they had scaled it horizontally first
• Successfully converted a traditional Salesforce (copy paste) deployment cycle into a fast paced (gitops) pipeline that enabled stronger developer experience
  • This enabled the business to focus on a mobile experience quickly while enabling custom services income at the same time
  • My work was directly compared to best practices advocated by Salesforce at the time, specifcially that my approach was much smoother. (this is before salesforce bought heroku)
  • Companies Denver presence grew from three devs to over eighty team members across all areas of the business during my tenure as the second dev the founder hired full time
• Worked on a data intensive dashboard supporting 60k individual building energy reports to support tracking progress against Congressional mandate
  • Data source ingested from 12+ timezones worth of energy bills for the US Navy
  • Data aggrigated via ETL down to monthly usage for every individual building
  • Data summarized from the individual into a regional => global command view pane

• Automatic service healing with zero involvement via System swarm management configured by Magnet URL
• Writing a linux daemeon to support an offsite backup service of critical application data
• Distributed Hash Table ordinal/lexical search support
• Exporting live data from the solar panels
• Providing an auth token during the dynamic creation of an install script (daemeon => otel tracking)