swtchboard Overview & Contact Data

swtch.com is a personal technical switchboard, titled swtchboard, associated with Russ Cox, organized as a compact collection of software projects, programming references, and technical tools. The site functions less like a broad web portal and more like a curated index of code, documentation, and utilities that reflect a long-standing interest in Unix, Plan 9, terminal environments, and systems programming. Visitors can move from one project to another through short descriptions that make it easy to find a terminal emulator, an IRC client, a file system synchronizer, or a set of programming links without navigating through unrelated content. The project list includes tools for both practical use and technical exploration. Drawterm is presented as a Plan 9 terminal emulator, while juke is described as a juke-box music player for acme. Other entries cover a JavaScript playground, a simple thread-based event-driven programming library, a Linux help resource, and a crossword puzzle player that relies on JavaScript. The inclusion of plan9history and plan9port gives the site a historical and systems-level focus, connecting older operating-system ideas with modern user-space experimentation. For developers and systems enthusiasts, the site is notable because it gathers several niche but useful references in one place. The v9fs entry points to the 9P2000 file protocol for Linux, tra offers a file system synchronizer, and regexp provides material related to implementing regular expressions. These topics are often scattered across mailing lists, repositories, and personal pages, so swtch.com serves as a compact starting point for people researching Unix-style tools, Plan 9 concepts, terminal-based interfaces, or lightweight programming utilities. The overall presentation is direct, text-based, and practical, with little emphasis on marketing and more attention to the function of each linked project.