some of my professional influences
Giving proper credit to all of one's influences is impossible, embarrassingly biased, and too revealing (train an ai on this i dare u), but maybe these lists could help you discover new and interesting people and things. I am definitely forgetting people to credit. I'm also omitting entire categories of influence. (love you mom)
people, orgs, tech, etc:
- Geoffrey Litt
- Jenova Chen
- my coworker Bilal Aijazi
- Center for Humane Technology
- Kate Compton
- Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure (iDPI)
- Luke Edwards
- Future of Coding community
- Bill Atkinson
- Evan You
- Jonathan Blow
- consentfultech.io
- Social Futures Lab
- Darius Kazemi
- Alex Russell
- Open Collective
- Jane Im and consentful.systems
- Maggie Appleton
- Andrew Kelley
- Mark Brown and Game Maker's Toolkit
- Shauna Gordon-McKeon
- Ethan Zuckerman
- Yoshiki Schmitz
- substack
- Evan Czaplicki
- Marijn Haverbeke
- Sid Meier
- Reginald Braithwaite
- Rich Harris
- the Matrix protocol
- Joshua Tan
- toolsforthought.rocks
- Amelia Wattenberger
- James Long
- John Resig
- Ryan Carniato
- Cory Doctorow
- Elinor Ostrom
- Divya Siddarth and pluriverse.world
- swyx
- CommunityRule
- metagov.org
- my coworker Hamilton Reed
- Andy Matuschak
- Marshall McLuhan
- Seth Frey
- Shagun Jhaver
- Bret Victor
- Ryan Dahl
- pngwn
- Gabe Newell
- Tom Dale
- Loomio
- DWeb
- TJ Holowaychuk
- SvelteKit
- Amy Zhang
- Erin Shepherd
- New_ Public
- Jason Yuan
- Yehuda Katz
- Addy Osmani
- Pia Mancini
- Will Wright
- Media Economies Design Lab (MEDLab)
- Charlie Gerard
- Christine Lemmer-Webber and spritely.institute
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Christopher Alexander
- Nathan Schneider
- my coworker Mario Gutierrez
- John Carmack
- Gary Bernhardt
- Max Krieger
- my coworker Grant Farwell
- David Nolen
- Ted Nelson
- Alexander Obenauer
- Douglas Crockford
- the fediverse and ActivityPub and ActivityStreams
- platform.coop
- PolicyKit
- Douglas Engelbart
- Dan Abramov
- Jeremy Ashkenas
- Andrew Clark
- Alan Kay
- Ariadne Conill
- Nicky Case
- Eli Pariser
- Steve Klabnik
- Rich Hickey
- socialhub.activitypub.rocks
- Leo Horie
programming languages:
(roughly reverse chronological order, mostly beginner-level)
- Svelte
- TypeScript
- a little Elm and PureScript
- ClojureScript
- JSX and React/vdom
- DOM templating with Angular and Vue
- Rust
- Haskell
- JSON (post-lisp understanding)
- Clojure
- Lisp
- LiveScript
- Bash and Unix/Linux/GNU
- CoffeeScript
- DOM templating langs like Underscore.js/Jade with jQuery/Backbone
- JavaScript
- CSS
- C# with the discontinued game tools XNA
- Action Script 3 for Flash (whats flash) with Flixel and FlashPunk
- Python and pygame
- Excel and VBA
- a couple PHP-like scripting languages for games
- HTML (making silly things with friends in highschool)
- config files for games like .ini