I created and have led the hledger project since 2007. hledger is a personal finance app and one of the first "real-world" end-user applications written in Haskell. 

I maintain rss2irc and operate the hackagebot IRC bot which announces haskell software releases on #haskell. 

I am a darcs contributor. I enhanced darcsden and operate darcs hub, a github-like service for darcs users.

Other haskell projects I have created or maintained include shelltestrunner and FunGEn.

I am experienced in practical real-world Haskell development and knowledgeable about the Haskell ecosystem. I rate myself only a 6 because Haskell goes very deep!

I've always been sensitive to user experience - visual appearance, interaction, cognitive model, community processes and so on. I love when it's done well and feel impatient when it's not. This tends to influence all of my work. Some examples:

- replacing an arcane text UI for a family of network devices with an intuitive cursor-navigable one
- designing websites that are elegant and efficient for various roles (newcomers, power users, maintainers..)
- building a highly usable and admin-able wiki engine (Zwiki) and using it to maintain highly efficient documentation for Zwiki and Zope
- streamlining the UI and UX of darcsden to create http://hub.darcs.net
- designing efficient and intuitive command-line, curses and web UIs, eg for hledger

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Simon M.

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Technical skills