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

Contact

I love meeting new people, please reach out;

• @thomasdavis on github
• @ajaxdavis on twitter
• thomasalwyndavis@gmail.com

Projects

Open Source Projects

• cdnjs - co-founded a JavaScript CDN serving billions of requests
• jsonresume - co-founded an open source schema for resumes with a built-in ecosystem
• mobtranslate - an open source ecosystem for Australian Indigenous languages
• jsonblog - founded a blog generator that builds from 1 blog.json file
• backbone boilerplate - modular Backbone.js development environment
• w3cjs - W3C HTML validator as an npm package
• seo server - server allowing crawlers to index JavaScript-heavy websites

Civic Tech & Activism

• taskforce - core team on hacktivist/civic tools and campaigns
• the day we fight back - anti-surveillance campaign (37M views, 100k calls to Congress)
• eff action centre - built platform for Electronic Frontier Foundation campaigns

Educational Content

• backbonetutorials - popular Backbone.js tutorial series turned into an ebook
• video backbone beginner server - educational resource for Backbone.js beginners

AI/ML Projects

• fake resumes gpt3 - generating completely fake contextual resumes with GPT-3
• fake resumes manual - trained 10 different text ML models to generate fake resumes
• computer vision to identify flags - trained a PyTorch CV model to identify the Aboriginal flag

Other Notable Projects

• drone hire - international directory of civilian drone operators (200k+ visitors)
• tokenized - Bitcoin wallet Electron app
• blockbid - cryptocurrency exchange platform

Interviews

• 2015-30-07 - An Interview with Thomas Davis, Author of Backbone Tutorials
• 2014-03-05 - Behind CDNJS

Media

• 2014-10-06 - Mandatory data retention - spy plan faces grassroots challenge
• 2014-04-21 - How Sunlight, EFF and 150 civic hackers reverse-engineered Congress’ email system in two days
• 2014-04-18 - A New Open-Source Tool Finally Makes It Easy to Mass Petition Congress
• 2014-05-03 - Making Your Web Site Faster With CDNJS
• 2013-07-23 - Internet Activists Rally Support to Defund NSA Phone Surveillance
• 2013-07-23 - The Grassroots Campaign to Take Away the Spy Money - An Interview with Defund the NSA
• 2012-12-12 - CDNJS - The Fastest Javascript Repo on the Web
• 2011-05-30 - Episode 0.6.3 - CDNJS with Thomas Davis and Ryan Kirkman