Conrad Irwin

Founder/CTO of Superhuman

Projects

Superhuman — the fastest email client in the world
Pry — the featureful development console for ruby
Bugsnag — cross-language intelligent exception tracking
gpg-decoder — debugger for GPG data
gist — terminal client for GitHub's pastebin
dotgpg — secure storage for production secrets
showterm* — text-based terminal screencasts
plotocrat* — instant data visualizations
Rapportive* — making you brilliant with people (Gmail version)
Intro* — making you brilliant with people (iOS version)

* now defunct

Libraries**

conl — a post-modern, human centered configuration language
fast64 — the fastest Base64 decoder in Chrome?
trie-ing — a weighted trie for autocompletion
command-score — scoring for the Superhuman command palette
pry-rescue — break on unhandled exception for Pry
lspace — continuation-local dynamic scope for ruby
em-imap — IMAP for event machine
unicode-dragon — Fix encoding errors in Node
git-aliae — I have more aliases than you
source_map — Source map support in Ruby

** See also My Github

Blog posts

December 2024 — Tools for Go modules
Oct 2023 — What does = do in rust?
September 2015 — Smooth animated HTML-5 icons
Aug 2015 — Hacking smart-quote support into a font
April 2014 — How to serve a static site from Heroku
April 2014 — IPv6 comes to San Francisco
April 2014 — IPv6 configuration instructions
Jan 2014 — dotgpg — easy to use storage for your production secrets
January 2014 — Avoiding MongoDB hash-injection attacks
September 2013 — Node's Unicode Dragon
April 2013 — bracketed paste mode
Mar 2013 — Visualizing memory leaks in Ruby
December 2012 — LSpace: Dynamic scope for Ruby
November 2012 — Everything you ever wanted to know about constant lookup in Ruby
August 2012 — pry to the rescue
June 2012 — MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on.
June 2012 — A quick introduction to Teacup
June 2012 — adding context to a shared git repository
June 2012 — How to program like an explorer (with Pry!).
May 2012 — git aliae so that you never lose work (part 2)
May 2012 — ampex — a practical use of Ruby's & operator
May 2012 — git aliae to make you more awesome (part 1)

Publications

Dec, 2015 9th International Conference on Passwords Strengthening public key authentication against key theft with Martin Kleppmann

Mar, 2015 Patent US 2015/0070283 A1 Techniques for hardware-optimized, user-responsive, carousels using a family of bezier curves in pure CSS

Jun, 2014 Patent US 2014/0164529 A1 Communication systems and methods with the Rapportive team

Oct, 2011 @SPLASH 2011 Virtual Machines should be invisible with Stephen Kell

Small contributions to bigger things

Wikipedia — {{safesubst:}}
Firefox — column number in stack traces
Git — git commit -p
libxml2 – fixed O(n ** 2) memory allocations
Golang — utf-8 support for Email header parsing
Pdfium — prevent the print dialog popping open
SQLite — fix crash in full text search index optimization
Golang — add `tool` declaration to go.mod