Hi, I'm Simon

Welcome to my website, where I sometimes quite rarely blog about things I find interesting. I'm mainly interested in databases, static analysis, compilers and cryptography. I enjoy writing tools and libraries, primarily in Dart.

Contact

You can reach me on @simonbinder@mastodon.online, GitHub, on Discord (simonbinder) or via email (admin at this domain).

Projects

I created a number of Dart packages, some of which have grown to be important for the overall Dart ecosystem:

• Drift, a high-level database library for Dart applications. It supports watching SQL queries, transparently running databases in isolates or web workers and a powerful handwritten static analyzer for SQL statements.
• The sqlite3 and sqlite3_flutter_libs packages to use sqlite in Dart/Flutter.
• The tar package for efficiently reading and writing tar files. It's streaming implementation is memory-efficient and it supports reading files created by weird readers. This package is used by the official pub client and by pub.dev to manage packages.
• Zap (now defunct) was a new compiler-aided Dart web framework inspired by Svelte.
• A collection of smaller packages, including a shelf handler for multipart requests.
• Built site, a fully-featured static site generator based on Dart's build system. It powers this very website!

I'm also a frequent contributor to other projects: I've received Google Open Source Peer Bonus awards for contributions to Dart's build system, dart:ffi, and Drift. I've also contributed to the Dart SDK itself and many other open-source projects.