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Hello! I'm Conrad from London. I started writing code in Macromedia Flash 8 in like 2006 because I wanted to make cool shapes, and make my animations do things that weren't possible by hand. I wound up studying computer sciecne and working in various startups in London - at the moment I'm doing a bit of Freelance Software Engineering and Teaching code too! I'd really like to do more teaching. I'm only just discovering the Future of Code ecosystem - spiritually it reminds me of why I started coding. So I'm grateful it exists! Heard of it through a friend called Greg who pointed me in the direction of Todepond. Currently trying to do more Digital Gardening, whatever takes my fancy at any given time, putting out lots of half finished stuff. What the kids are calling scrappy fiddles perhaps. Interested in Maps, Music (broadly, but also the particularly niche of barbershop quartet singing), Visualisations, Multi-modal interfaces. conradgodfrey.com
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heyyy, I also got my career started working in Flash in the macromedia days!!! (were you ever on Newgrounds??)
Where do you teach coding?
Curious about your interest in maps, I used to work at Cesium, and on the map at Snapchat (where I worked a lot on the internals of a mapbox stack)
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Hey Omar! I was like a kid back when I was doing flash, and never did it professionally, just made a load of hobby projects! Had one weird "game" on Deviant Art but I think it's lost to the sands of time. Currently freelance, so doing things on a project basis. e.g. Was in Mexico this August running a 3 week bootcamp for new grads in a bank. Interested in finding more avenues to teach though! Wow Cesium looks great, haven't heard about it before! Maps wise, I haven't explored it that deeply from a coding perspective but I'm interested in how you can make it as "fast feedback" as possible. I play piano and I'm often trying to make interacting with Apps feel more akin to playing piano in some sense - and I think some of that starts with fast feedback. e.g. this https://conradgodfrey.com/grep_britain/ I wish there were more tools that let you explore ideas in a super low latency way. Send me a message!
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trying to make interacting with Apps feel more akin to playing piano in some sense
💯💯💯 i love this!!! I feel like this is something the average person creating software has forgotten, because they don't have that tangible feeling of creating things with instant feedback. And it completely changes the game
typing in "london" and seeing results real time as I type 🤩
was just going to ask, but of course you're familiar with Bret Victor 😄
i followed you on twitter (on my pseudonymous account). I'm trying to post more on bluesky too
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oh I've definitely seen you in my feed before - just followed back!
great profile pic
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😄😄😄
exciting to connect with more tech people on there!! I made this poll a while back that was like "have you heard of DEFCON" and half of it was no and it's interesting to straddle this line
but I think it's good, more isolated subcultures should be communicating/bridging the gaps
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oh I assumed it was mostly tech people in here. Are you a "tech person"?
OK I have not heard of DEFON either! or at least, maybe I'd heard of it and could've guess what it was, but don't "know" about it. Have you been?
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yeah i have the very traditional background of, CS in undergrad, then worked in tech for 6 years. and only in the last like, year or so did I have this epiphany of, "woah, all this stuff about humanities is NOT bullshit???"
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hmm I don't know what colour pill that is, but surely some kind of pill
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it was kind of this book that was the "straw that broke the dam" for me. VP of engineering at Google, writes about studying culture and language, and doing it very rigorously and without any fluffed up language https://whoarewenow.net/
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