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Who is this doofus?

This is a bunch of things about my personal ethics, what I like, what I dislike, my strengths and weaknesses etc.

Its purpose is to serve as a guide for people on how to interact with me in professional and social contexts.

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The basics you should know about me are…

  • Pronouns: He/Him
  • Languages: I’m a native English speaker and have absolutely astoundingly terrible self-taught German.
  • Politics: Socialist.
  • Time Zone: Europe/Berlin (CET)

My working hours are…

I work 4 days a week Tuesdays to Fridays. I start work between 6am and 7am, then usually finish between 3pm to 4pm. I’m strict about work life separation, so professionally I can be hard to reach outside these work hours.

What motivates me to come into work each day is…

The feeling that the thing I’m working on makes the world a better place. In a world full of shit even a tiny improvement is still an improvement.

Three things I’ve done recently which I’m proud of are…

I drove a project to make the front end of the donation software in my job meet the WCAG AA accessibility level. This made it far easier for people with disabilities to donate, and become members, and most importantly have a voice in the future of the organisation.

I finally had a game idea stick, and it’s looking like I’ll actually release a solo project at some point in the future.

Toilet trained my son.

The sort of projects which really excite me have…

Had a creative or accessibility focus. The first thing I’ve found to be rewarding recently has been working on my game, which is all creative work, writing, coding, 3D modelling, animation, UI/UX. The second is accessibility, making software easier to use for people who need the most help.

A fun fact about me is…

My grandmother spun the wheel on Winning Streak, and it landed on the €1 million slot.

The brief I can work best from includes…

A spec and UX Design that takes the format into consideration. A spec should have clear information on the goal of the project and possible blockers and constraints worked out before starting. A design should not just consist of single desktop and mobile size treatments, as the web is fluid, everyone has different screens, and that needs to be kept in mind in order to have a project properly responsive. It should have a focus on accessibility from the very beginning, it’s much easier to include it from the start than try rework an inaccessible project later.

But, the best brief is one where I’m included from the very beginning to give technical support and perspective to the project manager and designers.

The best way to communicate with me is…

Asynchronously via email, or while I’m working on a project through whatever the team’s instance messaging tool is. I won’t answer email or I.M.s outside my work hours as I value work/life balance.

The best way to give me feedback is…

Be clear and thoughtful, and don’t worry about offending me by criticising my work. I have very little ego when it comes to how I build things and I value hearing other people’s perspectives.

I thrive at work when…

I’m given a goal and can decide my own way to achieve it within a reasonable timeline.

The things which prevent me from doing my best are…

Repetitive tasks. Scope changes after project start. Last minute work.

I’m good at…

  • Front of front end, accessibility, web standards.
  • Software architecture and design patterns.
  • Automated Testing and TDD.
  • Simplifying.
  • Refactoring.

I’m okay at…

  • 3D Modelling in Blender.
  • Animation.
  • UX/UI Design.
  • Game Dev.

I’m fairly shite at…

  • Devops.
  • Bash.
  • Building CI processes.
  • JavaScript tooling.

Moving Motivators

In order of most to least important.

  • Honour

    I’m proud that my personal values are reflected in the work I do.

  • Freedom

    I value independence and enjoy being responsible for my own work.

  • Curiosity

    I like to be constantly learning new things.

  • Mastery

    I always want a challenge, and enjoy levelling up my stats.

  • Relatedness

    I prefer to have friendships with the people in and around my work.

  • Power

    I’m not that worried about if there’s room for me to influence the work around me.

  • Acceptance

    It’s not super important that the people around me approve of my ethics.

  • Goal

    My purpose for living is not tied to my work in any way.

  • Status

    I honestly DGAF about status. It’s more important for me to work in an ethical environment.

  • Order

    While I do like a bit of stability, I thrive off chaos, because that’s where creativity comes from.

Working

  • 2024-now Reduced my days to 4 in Wikimedia Deutschland, so I can spend Mondays working on my solo game.
  • 2022 Bye bye Big Bad Studios, we couldn’t get anyone to play our games and got busy with life.
  • 2020 Started working on fundraising tech at Wikimedia Deutschland, had 2 weeks in an office before THE EVENT.
  • 2016 Released 3 games!
  • 2012 Moved to Berlin. Started a small game company called Big Bad Studios.
  • 2009 Became a web freelancer & did small jobs. Started contracting at Together Digital.
  • 2008 Got my BSc! Started working on the photo desk in the Metro Herald Newspaper.
  • 2005 Multimedia Programming in IADT.
  • 1997 First PC! DIT Engineering course. Hated it, dropped out.

Learning

  • 2024-now Accessibility, Web Standards, Typescript, modern CSS/HTML, bye bye SASS, hello CUBE CSS. Figma.
  • 2020 Agile, more Devops, CI, Hexagonal/Clean Architecture, Automated Testing, Symfony & Doctrine.
  • 2016 Docker, Vuejs, React, Express, Webpack. TDD, SOLID and reactive architecture. Zenject. The Affinity Suite. Spine 2D.
  • 2012 Craft, Laravel, Backbone, Angular, NPM. C#, Blender, Unity, game design.
  • 2012 CodeIgniter, ExpressionEngine. GIT. Objective-C, iOS development.
  • 2009 WordPress, Drupal, Joomla. Subversion.
  • 2005 OOP, PHP, HTML, CSS, Java, JS. System Design, SQL.
  • 1997-2002 Photoshop, HTML, 3ds Max, Office, AutoCad.