Name: Chris Down
Type: User
Company: @Facebook
Bio: I keep @facebook running as part of Meta's Linux Kernel team, and also help maintain @systemd.
I mostly work on memory management and cgroups.
Twitter: unixchris
Location: London, England
Blog: https://chrisdown.name
Chris Down's Projects
Alert when your machine is becoming oversaturated, *before* it slows to a crawl
A tool to take call stack traces with minimal overheads
Very rough race strategy calculator for RD GT3 races
Rebuild a Debian ISO with preseed/custom files.
An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs.
A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments
Chef cookbook to set up an rtorrent service inside tmux.
A workshop on Linux containers: Rebuild Docker from Scratch
Chef cookbook to create a minimal seedbox
A simple library and set of tools for parsing, modifying, and composing SRT files.
Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you ssh
Statsmodels: statistical modeling and econometrics in Python
A small program to stop individual threads from executing, instead of the whole thread group.
Simple X Image Viewer (photo organiser fork)
🐧 ⚙️ – systemd System and Service Manager
Todo list on X root window
Isolate windowed games without showing the desktop
Compare files encapsulated by torrents in a directory to the actual files on disk
Command line driven CI frontend and development task automation tool.
A script to automerge successful builds to a branch
Python script to backup everything from Trello: boards, lists, cards and attachments
Set the system timezone based on IP geolocation.
Get live UK bus times on stdout
Effortlessly move your cursor across monitors of different resolutions and alignments
A simple xinput toggler for X11 systems
A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
YouTube videos on the command line