About
About me
My name is Alex. I grew up near Boulder, CO and spent most of my childhood reading books, playing music, and playing video games. I learned programming by making bad games for my TI-83 calculator. The first things I published online were bad flash websites.
In college I studied programming and human-computer interaction. A team of classmates and I made a few apps on Facebook, which eventually turned into a startup. This was the first time I made something that was used by a large number of people. It became my introduction to making real products that have users and make money.
I have been working at a mobile game company in Japan since 2010. Because my day-job doesn’t currently involve much programming, I like to work on fun projects on the side that let me build things directly. You can read a little bit more about what I am doing now.
Part of the reason I maintain this site is the hope that it will help me make more connections online. Please feel free to get in touch! It would make me very happy.
About this site
I write notes using Obsidian, and use Hugo to transform my notes into a functional website. You can look at the Colophon for information about how this site is built. I have a running list of todos that I want to take care of.
I’m still not sure what the best way to organize things is here, so they might be a lot of reorganizing for a while. For now, the vision is to just tag everything and see what happens. Maybe I will make a tag cloud to aid exploration. Maybe I will expose a list of related pages for each page. I’m not sure yet, but I think I have a lot of options.