now :: my current status

As of July 2025

Work

Working at Dropbox as software engineer on block storage
- Working from home full-time
- Very large-scale distributed systems and microservices
- Backend only
- Mainly using Rust and Go, a bit of Python on the side

GitHub: github.com/wfraser; including:
- active projects:
  - units-rs, a Rust library for unit conversions and dimensional analysis (not yet published)
  - partialterm, a Rust library for controlling part of a text terminal without taking over the whole screen (not yet published)
  - vcalc, a versatile terminal arbitrary-precision RPN calculator using the above two libraries (not yet published)
- stabilized, not actively being worked on:
  - Dropbox SDK for Rust, semi-official
  - Dropbox Toolbox, a higher-level Dropbox SDK
  - rsbrowse, an interactive text-mode browser for Rust code
  - clap_wrapper, some extensions to the Clap library (which needs a better name)
  - dbxmirror, a program for maintaining a read-only mirror of a Dropbox tree
- and quite a few other small projects
Photography
- Trying to figure out how to make pseudo-ambrotypes (direct positive images on glass)
- Ongoing landscape photography (and many pictures of Andy) using various things from my camera collection.
3D Printing and Designs
- I recently upgraded from the Creality Ender 3 I had been using since 2022, to a Bambu P1S
- several toys and parts for toys for my 5-year-old
- also some photography-related designs:
  - a reflex viewfinder for my Chamonix 45F-2 large format camera
  - film holders for scanning 35mm film with my DSLR
  - jigs and shims for holding larger film formats better in my flatbed scanner

Playing hockey in Sno-King league on 3 teams
- Div D (center)
- Div C Monday (mostly defense, some wing)
- Pond