Ben Regenspan

Efficient internationalization of Closure Templates in a Webpack build. It's not too common to have a need to combine all of these technologies, but this was useful at Gawker/Gizmodo Media and is still used there today.

Node CLI for querying the US's trademark search engine.

A D3 visualization I made for this web performance presentation. Shows a simple view of the data found in a HAR file, useful for analyzing a page's performance at load time.

ESLint rules for enforcing safe use of _.extend() / $.extend(). This approach is now pretty outdated. In a new project, I would instead favor use of the object spread operator.

This is a lightly modified fork of gunicorn, the widely-used all-Python HTTP server. It preserves all of gunicorn's features, but prevents it from serving content on Shabbos. ("astral" is used for finding local sun-up/sun-down times).

While this project exists entirely as a dumb joke, it should be noted that some sites do close down on the Jewish day of rest, B&H likely being the most prominent example. There is an interesting discussion of this subject over on StackExchange.

This Chrome extension adds a limit of 140 characters to Google Plus and hides the buttons for doing fancy things that wouldn't be possible on Twitter, like recording video. In the interests of exceptional yet subtle UX, the HTML5 Audio API (via Buzz!) is used to play an airhorn effect when the user exceeds the character limit, and an image of the Dalai Lama flashes on the screen to remind the user of the beauty that can be found in simplicity.

(Sadly, some updates are required to make this work again after the latest Google+ redesign)

Article discussing why Facebook's Javascript SDK is so big and what, if anything, that means for the web. [Source code]

A dumb take on a strange Twitter trend. Based on everyword.

A (failed?) attempt to showcase the poetic form of trademark registrations. A trademark viewer that displays only marijuana-related t-shirt designs, many of which are amusing when described in the painstaking detail recommended for such registrations. Data retrieved via tess-search.

I built a fun little April Fools joke at Huffington Post - a paywall that only targeted visitors with New York Times IP addresses. There were some interesting challenges to the project due to CDN-level caching, so the IP detection was written using Akamai ESI.

Relying on a minor security issue in About.me (which I reported and has since been fixed), this permitted users to change the font on their About.me profile to Comic Sans.