Alex DeJarnatt
I’m an independent software developer based in Newport, RI. These days you can find me messing around online with crosswords and other puzzles. But I used to have a real job.
Crosswords
- The Cross(word) Reference
- A reference site for 100 years of crosswords, built around the connections between puzzles.
- Every Puzzle Project
- Bringing old crosswords back from paper and page scans. Read the blog.
- xd
- A futureproof crossword corpus and toolset, which I maintain with Saul Pwanson.
- puz.py
- Since 2009, a Python library for reading and writing Across Lite .puz files.
- xwordapp.com (defunct)
- A web site for solving the day’s puzzles. RIP.
Sudoku
- hodoku-py
- An extremely well-tested Python port of HoDoKu’s sudoku engine: solver, difficulty rating, hints and puzzle generator.
Other projects
clang-tidy, cppcheck and cpplint: Static analysis tools for C and C++ python extensions
- claude-scrollback
- A lightweight web viewer for Claude Code session transcripts.
Just for fun
- Has the AMOC collapsed yet?
- No, not yet.