I just finished my contract position at Electronic Arts. It was supposed to only be for a year, but my team liked my work a lot and found a way to extend my contract by another three months. This is my post mortem reflection on working at EA.

I worked on the UI team as a remote worker on the west co…

It's been a while since I posted updates:

I recently started a new contract job at Electronic Arts in July 2022.

Prior to that, I was a contracted VR developer at Raytheon for six months.

Prior to Raytheon, I was a Graphics Programmer at Facebook Reality Labs for two years working on AR/VR research pr…

I'm a programmer. There's this terrible term in the tech industry called “Programmer Art”. The underlying idea behind the term is that if you are a programmer, you can't be an artist. Or at least, if you tried, you wouldn't be a “good” artist. I have found this to be a toxic mindset which serves to…

Today I went to my co-working space in downtown Seattle and closed my old desk space. I had been renting a desk there for about 5 years, spending $400 a month. It made no sense to continue paying money for something I wasn't using anymore, so it was time to close down that operation. I am deligh…

Things have been going really great!

* My moms chemo therapy is working. It's not a cure by any means, but it will buy her more lifetime. There's a very small chance that she might eventually get healthy enough to fly back to America. 

* One of the VR projects I worked on in Nov 2018 was recent…

Games are art.
Art is created by artists.
Artists are people.
People have lives outside of their work.
Our personal lives can be messy.
Parts of our lives are reflected in our art.

I've been thinking a lot about life lately. My personal life has been going through some pretty radical chang…

So, to get started, the beginning of this project is a funny story:

During Christmas, my brother bought me a hand full of games that he saw on my steam wishlist. Just for a joke, he bought me a game called "Hentai Girl Linda" for $0.99. As you can probably guess, it's anime porn. I played it…

This morning I went for a long drive. I started thinking about image recognition. The question is, "How can you train a computer to recognize a common image pattern, even if many parts of the image change?" In other words, can we teach a computer to recognize and identify memes? The thing with me…

(Warning: Rambling ahead!)

I met a new client in the beginning of November through a friend. The client asked my friend if he knew how to use Leap Motion. He said, "No, I don't, but I know the just guy who does! Eric is probably one of the best Leap Motion developers in the country.", and a ref…

This may be one of the harder, more difficult entries to write. I am almost tempted to not even write it, but I've convinced myself that every step of the journey is important.

Almost exactly a month ago, I hit rock bottom. I was completely broke. I had nineteen cents in my bank account. My …