Ben Hoyt
I’m married to the only Franci Hoyt in the world, and we have two lovely daughters. Check out our blog Aliens in the Apple or see our family photos.
We recently moved to New York City, where I’m working as a software engineer for Oyster.com, a website that helps you review and book hotels.
I’m also a director at Brush Technology (they’re in Christchurch, New Zealand). You can read my CV / resume to learn about my work history.
Web sites I run
- Aliens in the Apple is our family blog for our time in New York City.
- Gifty helps couples make great wedding gift registries.
- The Brush Blog is where I write about software and the web.
- DecentURL turns ugly URLs into meaningful ones.
- Prism magazine was a small-scale print magazine I edited.
Projects I’ve authored
Below are some small open source projects I’ve authored or co-developed. Most of them are released under a BSD-style license. Enjoy!
- MRO maps database rows to objects in web.py.
- fabricate is a simple build tool that automatically finds dependencies.
- inih is a tiny INI file parser written in C.
- Protothread.h is my C++ port of Adam Dunkels’ protothread library.
- nobraces lets you write C with Python-style indentation. :-)