Tony Aldon

Programmer.
Hacker.
Creator.

Boost your engineering team

I'll work closely with the managing team, write well tested code, maintain existing code and share everything I learn with my teammates either via text documents, videos or getting on a call.

HIRE ME

BITCOIN LIGHTNING NETWORK

cln.rpc - Core Lightning JSON-RPC client in Clojure,
clnplugin-clj - Core Lightning plugin library which lets you attach a socket REPL to the plugin's process and modify it while it's running,
Contribution to Core Lightning - specifically writing the tests of the clnrest plugin (http server that exposes Core Lightning RPC commands).

EMACS & EMACS LISP

EmacsConf 2019 - Don't wait! Write your own (ya)snippets,
EmacsConf 2023 - one.el - the static site generator for Emacs Lisp Programmers,
one.el - Static Site Generator for Emacs Lisp programmers,
jack - HTML generator library for Emacs Lisp,
bfs - BFS (Browse File System) implements for emacs a dynamic tree view of the file system à la ranger,
org-bars - Minor mode that adds bars to the virtual indentation provided by the built-in package org-indent,
posts.tonyaldon.com - A few intense articles about Emacs Lisp and org-mode,

WHAT THEY LOVE

"Thank you,@tonyaldon, for all you do for the CLN community, especially for helping us curate the #BuildOnL2 platform with great content and tutorials. It wouldn't be possible without you. 🙏"

@Core_LN

Core Lightning Team

"All I got are just nits, I really like the level of detail in the tests."

@nepet

Engineer at Blockstream

"We need more tutorial like this one. You give the big picture since the start. Then you break step by step of how everything works in a nice short simple sentences. Thank you."

u/ram535

On r/emacs subreddit

"Best Emacs videos on YouTube! I liked the music too!"

@JasonUnderdown

On YouTube

YOUTUBE AND LIVE CODING

youtube.com/@tonyaldon - Around 150 coding videos, some short (2-3 minutes), others longer (1h-1h30). Python, C, Go,Rust, htmx, Emacs Lisp, Emacs, Core Lightning,
minibuffer.tonyaldon.com - 56 short videos to learn Emacs Lisp one sexp at a time.
LNROOM - 24 live coding sessions about Core Lightning.