Howdy 👋

My name is Frank, but the internet knows me as Paceaux.

I'm a front-end developer, CMS consultant, software architect, JavaScript engineer, language learner (󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇸🇫🇷🇵🇹🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇱🇸🇾🇩🇪🇹🇷), aspiring linguist, semi-professional woodworker and semi-amateur writer.

You might know me for:

• A small guide for naming stuff in front-end code
• famously short lists.

Silly Stats

💻 Currently Coding & …

Making that 💰 at

Red Hat, as a Senior Front-end Drupal Engineer.

🔭 working on

• Analyzing Bluesky posts that containg "social pronouns" like dude, bro, bruh, chat, sis, and fam
• 🚀 Enhancing the Methodius library for analysis on bigrams and trigrams to improve language detection.
• Developing a tool to calculate CSS Complexity.
• Coming up with the testing for CheapState, a namespaceable localStorage pubsub utility.

🌱 learning about

• Linguistics, particularly typology and phonotactics
• TensorFlow and Machine learning.

Maybe it can help me find some common sound patterns in Germanic (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪), Romance (🇪🇸🇫🇷🇵🇹🇦🇩) and Celtic (🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) languages …

👯 seeking collaborators for

• Learning the difference between bro and bruh
• helping Methodius get better at identifying n-grams in non-western languages, like Arabic
• helping Methodius do text edit distance analysis
• getting Isidore to do a better job at spotting verbs in English.

💬 Answered asks are…

Where are you on the interwebz?

All over. But if you search for "paceaux" you're sure to find me.

What are your pronouns?

\b((h(e|i(s|m(self|\b))))|((e|é)l(e|\b))|il(s|\b)|s(on|u|eu)|l(o|e|ui(-même|\b))|o)\b/gi

📫 How can I send you a very important message?

I blog. You might get my attention there.