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About

I’ve only just set up this blog, so not much to say here:

I like programming, a lifetime hobbyist programmer
Try to read and would like to write
Gardening is my favorite outdoor hobby
Love collaborating and meeting new people
I live in far north Queensland

You can find my full resume at https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis, and an overview of everything I’ve shipped at /projects.

Contact

I love meeting new people, please reach out;

Interviews

2015-07-30 — An Interview with Thomas Davis, Author of Backbone Tutorials — Leanpub Podcast
2014-03-05 — Behind CDNJS — Cat5TV
2011-06-21 — CDNJS with Thomas Davis and Ryan Kirkman (Episode 63) — The Changelog

Reference / Profile

cdnjs — Wikipedia — lists Thomas Davis as co-founder / developer; the Changelog interview is cited as Reference 14
Thomas Davis — Grokipedia — third-party encyclopedic profile of my open-source work

Media & Coverage

2026-01-24 — JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool — Hacker News, third-party submission of json-render.dev (77 pts, 23 comments)
2025-12-28 — Show HN: tpmjs — npm for AI SDK tools — Hacker News
2025-07-20 — Show HN: llm-benchmark — benchmarks LLM-optimized code across providers — Hacker News
2024-07-11 — The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix — Hacker News, third-party deep dive on the JSON Resume ecosystem (182 pts, 115 comments)
2021-07-16 — Remote code execution in cdnjs of Cloudflare — Hacker News, security write-up about the project I co-founded (335 pts, 100 comments)
2020-09-14 — Show HN: Mob Translate — Translation for Australian Aboriginal Languages — Hacker News (85 pts, 33 comments)
2019-12-19 — An Update on CDNJS — The Cloudflare Blog, official post about handing CDNJS off to Cloudflare
2019-11-01 — Lack of cdnjs activity — Hacker News, community discussion of the CDNJS handover (236 pts, 100 comments)
2019-07-25 — Cryptocurrency trading bot in ~40 lines of JavaScript — Hacker News (180 pts, 77 comments)
2019-06-27 — JSON Resume — 5th Birthday and New Features — Hacker News (136 pts, 56 comments)
2014-10-06 — Mandatory data retention — spy plan faces grassroots challenge — Sydney Morning Herald
2014-07-07 — JSON Resume — a JSON-based open source standard for resumes — Hacker News, the canonical launch thread (490 pts, 210 comments)
2014-05-03 — Making Your Web Site Faster With CDNJS
2014-04-21 — How Sunlight, EFF and 150 civic hackers reverse-engineered Congress’ email system in two days — Sunlight Foundation
2014-04-18 — A New Open-Source Tool Finally Makes It Easy to Mass Petition Congress — Motherboard / Vice
2014-03-12 — Drone Flies Into an Active Volcano [video] — Hacker News, submitted by Drone Hire (268 pts, 98 comments)
2014-03-07 — Model aircraft operators free to operate commercially in US, rules federal judge — Hacker News, submitted by Drone Hire (331 pts, 138 comments)
2013-07-23 — Internet Activists Rally Support to Defund NSA Phone Surveillance — Mashable
2013-07-23 — The Grassroots Campaign to Take Away the Spy Money — Interview with Defund the NSA — Motherboard / Vice
2012-12-12 — CDNJS — The Fastest Javascript Repo on the Web — The Cloudflare Blog
2011-07-31 — Cdnjs — the missing cdn — Hacker News, the original CDNJS launch thread (88 pts, 39 comments)

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