is a software developer who loves building tools about traveling, language learning, and local community. Alex writes about tech, community, and more on his blog.
A living project providing residents of Portland with more information about what's happening, including a news page that aggregates local Portland news into an easy-to-read feed.
A website for doing check-ins with push notification reminders. The site is written in Astro, and Ntfy is used for push notifications.
This site! alexledger.net is my personal website built with Astro as the meta-framework, with Svelte, mdx, and markdown under the hood.
My partner's Hugo site that uses the CSS from pandoc as the basis of the theme. The site showcases Cat's writings and prioritizes accessibility.
A version of the CSS Zen Garden inspired by Blast, which is a yellow-hued theme with fun, futuristic, computer vibes.
An implementation of Blondel et al.'s community detection algorithm in python.
Project exploring chaos and emergent properties in Schelling's Bounded Neighborhood model.
A paper published on arXiv, presented at CESC 2018, in collaboration with Ben Kaiser and Mireya Jurado. The linked video is a talk by colleague Ben Kaiser.
A paper published at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) in July 2017, advised by Adam Groce and in collaboration with Josh Gancher.
A paper written in 2017, as part of the senior thesis at Reed, on a novel technique for efficient two-party-computation. A collaboration with Adam Groce, Arkady Yerukhimovich and Alex Malozemoff.