8+ years Full stack web developer and research software engineer with a specialization in high performance web graphics. I've built and published my own libraries to render huge earth-sized planets for the web using React and @react/three-fiber. I've experience building high quality products in large companies as well as startups, from Beijing, Berlin, Geneva, and recently, NYC.
I've just finished my batch at the Recurse center where I explored methods of applying ML and GIS to generate terrain for procedural generation / game content, now looking for my next team!
This year I've learned a great deal by experimenting with game development. I've learned elixir, started to learn rust, and acquired a great many skills like distributed computing that I would never have touched in my day job. I hope I can continue spinning that flywheel for my self-inspiration.
Goals:
1. Continue building my web-based MMORPG https://firmament.kenny.wtf/
2. Get better at French (I'm an expat living in Geneva, CH. My language level is inexcusable.)
I've been attempting to create my own virtual multiplayer world using similar technologies now for the last few months: https://firmament.kenny.wtf/
The tooling and communities in typescript/web land are so good now that even a complete game dev noob like me can create pretty amazing experiences (I think, I've yet to create anything amazing...). I can't wait to see how this space evolves and the toolings/communities around them mature even more
Technologies: Typescript, JavaScript, Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, ReactJS, Vue, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Git, AWS, THREE.js & Data Vis, Adobe Suite (I'm dangerous with UI/UX design as well!)
I'm an American software engineer currently building extensible front-end open source products in Geneva, with experience working remotely from Berlin & Beijing as well. I specialize in creating neat modular applications that can scale across teams and deployments.
Please drop a message over email or twitter, would love to chat regardless!
Technologies: Typescript, JavaScript, Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, ReactJS, Vue, SQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Git, AWS, THREE.js & Data Vis, Adobe Suite (I'm dangerous with UI/UX design as well!)
I'm an American software engineer currently building extensible front-end open source products in Geneva, with experience working remotely from Berlin & Beijing as well. I specialize in creating neat modular applications that can scale across teams and deployments.
Please drop a message, would love to chat regardless!
Yeah, that's exactly the lack of discipline I have.
I really think one of the keys is peer buy-in. One of the ways to increase buy-in from your peers is making it less a chore and more a 'thing you get to do'. That's kind of the main inspiration for this, hence the "Build Boss" title and special slack channel.
That, and making it simple as a post-it. I don't think it's quite there yet, though.
Thanks! I was trying to make something simple for my team that has no patience for discipline and protocol. I think it's simple enough that even the laziest of devs (often me) and dev teams can give it a try
I will certainly check it out! Isn't it strange what kinda reaches out and gives you a big impression? I'm interested in your opinion once you've finished.
I am always glad to hear of books that leave this kind of impact on people, and I've heard about the Asia Saga before, but I forgot about it. Very eager to start. Thanks for the recommendation
I found this series more rewarding than almost any other book series. I find it to be so.... literarily... satisfying. I have no idea how to explain that. The author's vision of the future is so complex and compelling, and the humanity of it all. I could go on for hours!
This is unsurprising, as those of you who have read "Dictators Handbook" will remember, college campuses are organizations governed by leaders with small constituencies and sort of mathematically lead to crony-ism and big payouts for supporters. The system is set up to incentivize this behavior,
and the universities need to be reorganized to achieve any other outcome.
I'm an American Full-Stack engineer currently leading a front-end team in Germany, with experience working remotely from Berlin & Beijing. I've designed, built and deployed many micro-services, game portals and business analytics web-apps and am comfortable all across the stack. If you have any questions, feel free to drop me an email :)
1) They're really really really heavy
2) Most companies are small and don't have distribution set up
3) Many companies can't make enough printers (they're kinda like garage operations), have huge lead-times, so they don't even want more orders from beyond their serviceable territories.