Alex Kraiz

Hi — I’m Alex Kraiz (Sasha to people I know). This is my space. You’ll find my projects, my notes, and what I’m currently working on. Some of it is finished, some is in motion, some is just things I wanted to keep around.

Projects

Habitat Score
A standardized way to encode what you need from a living space — and what a living space actually offers.
Tenure Atlas
Who owns the home they live in, across the post-socialist region. Rebuilt from primary census tables, with every number traceable to the table it came from.

Armenia

Armenian Frequency List
The 1200 most common words and 200 most common phrases of Eastern Armenian (Yerevan), with IPA, Latin and Cyrillic transcriptions, translations and learner examples.
armenian-transliteration
An npm package for Eastern Armenian transcription — IPA, BGN/PCGN Latin, and Russian phonetic systems with context-aware positional rules.
vankatum
Armenian hyphenation that gets consonant clusters right, for websites, LibreOffice, InDesign and LaTeX. It keeps the ու digraph and the յ glide whole and writes the epenthetic ը where the spelling rules require it.
VCR.AM
Virtual cash register for Armenia — electronic fiscal receipts (eHDM) for online merchants, wired directly to the State Revenue Committee.
Revenant
Cross-platform client for the Armenian Government’s EKENG e-signature appliance — Linux, macOS, and Windows.