Ben Dichter

Software

Side projects, the things I build outside of work. My neuroscience software is CatalystNeuro's and lives at catalystneuro.com.

Apps

Things with a front door, that someone other than me uses.

  • Web app

    A community wiki for West Coast Swing moves, edited Wikipedia-style. Every move gets aliases, variants, and related patterns, and any YouTube dance can be marked up move by move so the timeline follows along with the video. Descriptive rather than prescriptive: it records how the community actually dances.

    • 42 moves
    • 127 video clips
    • 57 dancers
  • iOS and Android

    Finds the moments a couple was in the same place before they ever met. Matching runs on photo metadata, processed on the device, and pairing works from a code with no account, so the photos never leave the phone.

  • Web app

    Look up your representatives at every level of government from an address, draft a letter about an issue with AI assistance, then edit it and send it. The tedious parts are automated and the message stays yours.

  • Swift

    An iOS app for finding and sharing cocktails at nearby bars, with ratings, photos, and maps.

Libraries and tools

Smaller pieces, mostly Python, mostly written to scratch an itch.

  • brokenaxes

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    Python

    A matplotlib package for plots with a broken axis, for when one outlier or one long gap would otherwise flatten everything else on the chart.

  • Python

    Pulls Google Workspace, GitHub, and Calendar activity into a single week view, which makes it obvious where the time actually went.