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Hi all! I've been lurking for a while (and have met some of you on donut calls). My name's Mike, and I make programming languages and tools. I got started early on with <https://julialang.org/|Julia> and built a bunch of tools for <https://junolab.org/|interactive development> and <https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl|machine learning>. I'm proudest of <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_(machine-learning_framework)|Flux>, which influenced TensorFlow 2 and has been used for <https://mikeinnes.io/posts/flux/|lots of cool research>. Nowadays I'm working on a little project called <https://github.com/Unkindnesses/raven|Raven>, which I'm pitching as a better way to use WebAssembly and as an <https://github.com/Unkindnesses/raven-js-template|escape hatch from JS>. I'm excited for what we can do by making powerful interactive languages accessible everywhere (<https://mikeinnes.io/posts/raven-tour/|explorable explanations>? figma for code?), and resonate with ideas like malleable computing. It's early days but I think there's a lot of potential in those areas.

I'll keep it short, but I'm more than happy to talk more, and to hear about any overlapping work :D I'd like to participate in more of the meetups in future too (sadly didn't see the last one in time). Glad this place exists!