<!DOCTYPE html><htmllang="en"><head><metacharset="UTF-8"><title>Home | tait.tech</title><linkrel="stylesheet"href="/assets/css/style.css"><metaname="viewport"content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><metaname="author"content="Tait Hoyem"><metaname="keywords"content="UNIX Design, Tait Hoyem, security, privacy, software developer, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, independent, web developer"><metaname="description"content="Tait Hoyem's website. The home of accessible, simple and secure computing."></head><body><divid="wrapper"><header><h1>tait.tech</h1><nav><ahref="/"class="nav-link"class="on-page">Home</a><ahref="/blog/"class="nav-link">Blog</a><ahref="/ideas/"class="nav-link">Ideas</a><ahref="/links/"class="nav-link">Links</a><ahref="https://github.com/TTWNO/"class="nav-link"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Github</a></nav></header><main><h1>Tait Hoyem</h1><p>I have three goals in my software development career:</p><ol><li>Strong adherence to the <ahref="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html">UNIX principles</a> of software design.</li><li>Security, privacy, and anonymity of the internet.</li><li>Accessibility of technology to the visually impaired.</li></ol><p>Some of my projects reflect these goals; others are just fun along the way. I have all of my code projects hosted on <ahref="https://github.com/TTWNO">my Github</a>.</p><h2>Projects</h2><p>Here is some of my best work:</p><ulclass="clear-list projects"><li><p><ahref="https://github.com/ornicar/lila/pull/7772">Lichess</a>— A patch for Lichess.org which vastly extends support for screen reader users. The website has millions of active users. </p></li><li><p><ahref="https://github.com/TTWNO/quote_pdf">Quote Retrieval System</a>— Written for a local roofing business to securely distribute quotes. </p></li><li><p><ahref="https://github.com/TTWNO/epub-with-pinyin">epub-with-pinyin</a>— A program to add Pinyin above Chinese characters in .epub files to assist those learning Mandarin Chinese. </p></li><li><p><ahref="https://github.com/TTWNO/lamegames.io">lamegames</a>— A little games website I made for some demonstrations of Django and websocket functionality. Very, very lame. Would not recommend. </p></li><li><p><ahref="https://github.com/TTWNO/chess">chess</a>— A command-line chess game in C++. It is compileable on nearly any system. </p></li><li><p><ahref="https://github.com/TTWNO/subnetting">subnetting</a>— One-night write of a subnet calculation tool. </p></li><li><p><ahref="">Payroll</a>— A payroll system written in PHP. </p></li><li><p><ahref="https://bytetools.ca">Bytetools</a>— I have my own company called Bytetools. We make websites, data archiving and custom applications. 10% discount for open-source or community-oriented projects. </p></li></ul><p>I also occasionally put some content on <ahref="/blog">my blog</a></p><h2>Contact</h2><address><p>You can reach me via email at <ahref="mailto:tait@tait.tech">tait@tait.tech</a>.</p></address><p>If you use PGP, download my <ahref="/public-key.asc">public key</a>.</p></main><hr><footer> This page is mirrored on <ahref="https://beta.tait.tech/">beta.tait.tech</a>. </footer></div></body></html>