Portfolio

It’s unthinkable to build a piece of software without using existing libraries and frameworks. But reusing code written by other people comes with risks. Can we create a language that facilitates safe code reuse, across an open-source ecosystem?

Naming is hard — but at a previous company I worked for, the naming problems were more than just annoying. Based on examples of bad naming, I formulated a set of principles that I consider indispensable for any well-running tech team.

An introduction to fibers in Ruby, along with a handful of use cases.

An exploration of the business advantages of treating code as data to be analysed and transformed.

Ruby’s Enumerator class is a powerful tool for writing code for dealing with streams of data and events. This talk also shows how to effectively use enumerators for slow data sources.

A journey through the many intricacies of writing a memoization library in Ruby.

A game of Solitaire for macOS and other desktop operating systems.

A memory game, written in Crystal using Glove, a game engine I built.

A game made at the Berlin Mini Game Jam on August 31st, 2014.

A point-and-click adventure game. It never made it far. Making games is hard.

My own web site! You are looking at it right now. It has been online for a long time, in various places, with many different designs.

I built Nanoc to manage my own web site, and then created a web site using Nanoc for Nanoc.

I updated the existing Myst Online web site, replacing Flash and IFRAMEs with modern (for the time) HTML and CSS. The web site shot up in search engine rankings as a result. I improved the look with homemade graphical assets, bringing the site more in line with the game. Lastly, I got together a team of translators and made the web site available in a handful of additional languages.

The small, one-page site for D★Mark.

I created the web site for EuroMysterium, the European counterpart to Mysterium, the yearly Myst fan convention.

An aggregator for blogs in the Myst/Uru fan community.