Alex Dean

What follows is a list of my personal projects. This list is ordered from most to least recent.

• Generative Documentation & Testing — NPM package that functions as a CLI tool using the GPT 3.5 API to improve your JavaScript and TypeScript code. It helps you write better code by automatically generating documentation, refactoring code to improve performance and maintainability, adding unit tests using Jest, and converting JavaScript code to TypeScript. At its peak, the package had about 700 weekly downloads. You can see the GitHub page.
• Generative Satire — Automated satirical news site monitoring recent events and generating Onion-style articles using LLMs; At its peak, the site had a viewership of about 1500 people per week. The application was built using a React frontend and a Node.js backend, with articles stored on a Firebase Realtime Database and multiple APIs used for image and content generation. The site is hosted on Google Cloud. You can see the website and GitHub page.
• Read This to Me — Application that converts written text into audio from a wide variety of dialects, using the SpeechSynthesis Web API. The site was built using JavaScript and HTML/CSS. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages with a custom domain. You can see the website and GitHub page.
• Language Discovery — Application that applies various similarity algorithms on various human language data sets. By languages, I'm referencing frequency dictionaries for human languages, which catalog how frequently a word is used in one language relative to another. I examine topics like the average word length and the most popular color in a given langauge. You can see the website and GitHub page.