ALEX BADIU · 48K
Projects · the directory

Things I've built.

Some work I'm proud of, some open source, a couple of things built in an afternoon, and a bit of music. Some shipped, some archived, all honest about which.

PROG 01

Spotlight

At BENlabs
AI content recognition ·Sole engineer

An AI content-recognition system I built end to end. It processed more than 600,000 media files and identified over 100,000 brand placements across them. One of the pieces of work I'm most pleased with, mostly because I owned all of it.

TypeScriptPythonAWS
PROG 02

Watch

At BENlabs
Media measurement ·Led the build

A first-of-its-kind media-measurement platform built on Snowflake, unifying analytics across more than 1.5 million titles. The interesting problems here were less about the data and more about making it trustworthy enough that people would act on it.

SnowflakeTypeScriptReact
PROG 03

eslint-bamboo-formatter

Open source
A few hundred lines ·Still out there

A small ESLint reporter that formats output for Atlassian Bamboo. Barely any code, and it quietly ended up used by NASA and a UK government research body. My favourite small-code, real-reach story.

JavaScriptESLint
PROG 04

UNHCR train alerts

2015 · built in a day
With a friend at the UNHCR

A friend at the UNHCR needed to know when trains carrying refugees would arrive. We scraped unofficial timetables and turned them into alerts for aid workers, built in a single day. Scrappy, and it mattered.

PHPScraping
PROG 05

Snoop Dogg village site

Built in an afternoon
The internet did the rest

Snoop Dogg turned up in a random Romanian village and the internet lost it. We built a small site reacting to it in a couple of hours; it went viral, and the team ended up interviewed by the BBC.

PHPA slow afternoon
PROG 06

Reading & Kobo tools

Being revived
instakobo · incunable · quarto · imagecache-sharp

A handful of small tools around reading: pushing Instapaper articles onto a Kobo, EPUB generation from HTML, and a TypeScript image-processing library inspired by Drupal's ImageCache. Most went quiet for years; I'm dusting them off now.

TypeScriptNodeGo (in progress)
PROG 07

Drupal modules

2008 onward
The prolific early years

Sixteen published Drupal modules and some core contributions, from a busy early open-source stretch. Prolific for a few years, then quiet for about twelve, now being revisited a little. Honest about the timeline rather than pretending it was continuous.

PHPDrupal
PROG 08

viciosul_sid & a Playdate game

For fun
Chiptunes and a handheld game

Chiptunes made in stretches under the name viciosul_sid, and a small amateur game for the Playdate handheld. Between them they explain why this whole site is a ZX Spectrum love letter.

ChiptunePlaydateLua
A few of these are being revived right now, so some links point at my GitHub profile rather than the exact repo. I'll tidy those.
Curious about any of them, or want to collaborate? Get in touch.