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# Tom Preston-Werner

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# Tom Preston-Werner

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### Profile

Tom is building Preston Werner Ventures and RedwoodJS. Tom was also cofounder of GitHub, on the board of Chatterbug, Netlify, and Hack Club.

- [Jekyll:](https://jekyllrb.com) A simple, blog aware, static site generator (used for this site).
- [Semantic Versioning:](https://semver.org) A meaningful method for incrementing version numbers.
- [TOML:](https://github.com/toml-lang/toml) Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language.
- [God:](https://github.com/mojombo/god/) Ruby process monitoring framework with easy extensibility.
- [Chronic:](https://github.com/mojombo/chronic/) Ruby natural language date/time parser.
- [TomDoc:](http://tomdoc.org) Code documentation for humans.
- [ProxyMachine:](https://github.com/mojombo/proxymachine/) Layer 7 routing proxy in Ruby with Event Machine.
- [Gollum:](https://github.com/gollum/gollum/) A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
- [Grit:](https://github.com/mojombo/grit/) Object oriented Ruby bindings for Git (used by GitHub).
- [Ernie:](https://github.com/mojombo/ernie/) Ruby/Erlang Hybrid BERT-RPC server.

## Podcasts

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### [RedwoodJS](/podcast/2-40-RedwoodJS)

September 21, 2022

Tom chats with us all about Founding GitHub, running Preston Werner Ventures and building RedwoodJS.