My name is Ian Fisher. I'm a software developer in New York City. In the wider world, I'm best known for creating CityQuiz.io, a geography quiz website. I write online about software, language, and literature.
In 2025, I taught CS644: Intro to Systems Programming at Fractal University.
If you'd like to get in touch, send an email to my first name @ the name of this website.
Recent posts
- The monorepo: my personal software infrastructure in 2026 (Jan 2026) – A review of the software libraries and tools I have built for my personal use.
- My 67 bugs in 2025 (Dec 2025) – All of the bugs that I wrote in my personal software in 2025.
- Woes of writing your own jobserver (Sep 2025) – Writing my own jobserver turned out to be a lot more than I bargained for.
- Notes on Wikipedia after 10,000 edits (Sep 2025) – Reflections on the world's largest free encyclopedia after a milestone in my editing career.
Projects
- fast-concordance: instant concordances of classic books in Go
- Polygrammarous: a web app for exploring linguistic diversity
- Webble: an online word game inspired by the classic table-top game Boggle
- obsidian-quick-links: a small plugin for the personal wiki software Obsidian