This is the personal Website of Stephen Wiley, son of Glen Wiley. If you want more up to date information check my now page.

Bespoke Software

I have developed a number of software projects, they remain in various states of completion

• Ticket Tracker is my project management software. I wrote it one afternoon after suffering without anything good for years.
• BingeBlock is a life changing browser extension for limiting the time you spend on addictive websites. I think out of all the software I've written this might have the highest value per line of code.
• Pimp My Llama is a self service LLM pretraining and finetuning SAAS startup monetizing some ML code I originally wrote for robotics experiments. I currently work there.
• Public.swiley.net Contains a collection of unfinished snippets (some not so small such as my unistroke IME for WaspOS on the PineTime.) Some people might also be interested in some of the theoretical quantum computing research I've been doing since there's a lot of hype for that right now. I intend to clean that up and make it more presentable soon. The hosting software may also be interesting. It's the only git hosting software I know of that doesn't need a dynamic web server.
• web thing is a relatively unfinished linemode web browser I wrote in college. I had grand ideas for it but just haven't contributed for a few years. I'm not sure I'll continue.
• Meta bookmarklet Is a small bookmarklet for keeping site-specific notes in your browser's local storage.
• My old github is inaccessible but contains some of my older pre-university code like the executive I built for my household mobile robot that lets you upload navigation code in s-record format without rebooting.
• My new github Only really has stuff for collaborating with people who use github. You can safely ignore it.

For People Who are Lost

I am not currently doing consulting and ML training work as I work full time at Pimp My Llama. It's essentially Palentir but self service (the joke is that Palintir's primary product is essentially consulting.)

If you're not sure how to contact me: Everything goes to my email. If you text or voice mail me it just goes there too. MMS is provided via jmp.chat for your convenience as many people struggle with mail client UIs. I've had some trouble with AT&T failing to accept voicemail for my Richmond number. I'm not sure why that is but my 571 number is what you should be using anyway unless we're driving in a caravan or in a similar "real time" situation. The 571 number is also the Only number that works when I'm out of the country and the only one that will work with group chats.

You're expected to know where the index for your project is if it's not public. If you've forgotten the path or password please email swiley@swiley.net.

If you're looking for the Liberty University Robotics club: I'm no longer active after graduating. It looks like the club leadership unfortunately deleted the github organiztion, repos, and website (hosted using github pages) a few years after I left. You'll have to check with them to see where they host things now. They used to meet on Tuesdays in the lab space just South of the engineering department, ask around or check the engineering school's website if they've moved. I do not have a backup copy of the old site but I may have some of the older competition code for the Vex team if you're looking for that.

I no longer allow direct access to most devices from the public internet. If you know me and have a login you should be able to reach everything from the SSH jump host. Email me if you've forgotten the domain name.

The Mumble server should be online, try to schedule calls before joining as I might not be in front of my laptop.

I no longer use IRC, Twitter, Reddit, SnapChat, GroupMe, Google Hangouts, Facebook (although I do try to check that once a year), LinkedIn, HackerNews (although I do check the monthly "who's hiring" threads), Mastodon or Discord. There's just so little useful info on these and so much time wasting. On top of that there's the looming threat of people going through public history on sites like these looking for reasons to harass and defame each other. I've decided the best way to deal with this is to just not participate. I still am occasionally active on a handful of XMPP MUCs but you shouldn't count on me being there unless someone is paying me. The best way to reach me as always is email and I am active on the mailing lists, forums, and Github/gitlab repos although I usually make throwaway accounts for Github.

If you're one of my friends that I stopped talking to around ~2020: I'm not avoiding you but I did lose a lot of my contacts during a failed migration between mobile phone OSes (also a lot of Apps are simply unusable without a non-free OS.) My email has been the same for 18 years and that is still the best way to reach me if nothing else works.

If you're looking to get started programming I wrote a letter to a friend a while ago with some advice for how to go about it. Some of it is opinion but I'd argue it's informed opinion.

Projects (currently migrating)

One of these days I'll consolidate all of that into something nice.

My Boat

I enjoy sailing and own a small sloop named the "Toria." She's one of the small number of 25 (23?) foot "Bayfields." Below is a picture of me sailing her to her previous port.

I've done a handful of upgrades including an all electric propulsion system. This means there's no longer any dangerous gasoline on board and no more engine failures! It also means you can cook things and enjoy hot coffee and warm electric blankets during the winter. There's also a miniature mechanical refrigerator during the summer! All this without shore power entirely from solar panels. I've also been experimenting with some portable air conditioning systems which I might offer for sale when I improve the user friendliness.

More information on the boat stuff and Float Plan pages.