I love type. Mostly sans-serif, particularly Helvetica. Recently I’ve been serif-curious and spending quality time with Akzidenz Grotesk. Most of these are created in Adobe Illustrator, with the final images output at 2000px, tweaked in Photoshop.

Prints

If you’d like a print, send me an email. Some are also available on T-shirts.

The day after my birthday, confused and slightly saddened that nobody had made the obvious parody of Mat’s pioneering original, I recified the situation. In one hour, concept to execution—even with GoDaddy annoy-a-reg. THANKS BUT I DO NOT WANT TO REGISTER RANDYREDDIGFAMILY.COM.

Click, skid, dance: Barack Obama Is Your New Fixie

Blog design for Proctor & Gamble’s Innovation Group, developed in collaboration with Deborah Schultz.

I was responsible for the visual design, layout and initial implementation in HTML/CSS.

Images

About

Earlier this year, I started using the very excellent site Dopplr to track my travels. As a joke, I registered a vanity domain in the Indian .in TLD and hooked it up to a script using the intrepid Simon Wistow’s module Net::Dopplr on CPAN. Voila, instant single-serving site.

The idea was to have a site where anyone could ask where I was, e.g. http://is.ydnar.in/san francisco or a silly—good?—question like http://is.ydnar.in/jail. Responses are entirely in the form of HTTP status codes. This is because I am a giant nerd.

Try It Yourself

History

Q3Map2 is the official level compiler for Id Tech 3. Originally coded as a modification of the RTCW tool chain for PlayStation 2 at Raster Productions. It eventually became part of the open source GtkRadiant editor.

Games Created Using Q3Map2

• Quake Live
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Operation Resurrection (PlayStation 2)
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War (Xbox)
• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
• Star Wars: Jedi Academy
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Breakthrough

Supported Games

• Nexuiz
• Open Arena
• Quake III: Arena
• Quake III: Team Arena
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix
• Star Trek Elite Force
• Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
• Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
• Tenebrae
• Tremulous
• Urban Terror
• War§ow
• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

• Q3Map2 Documentation on WikiBooks
• Shader Manual
• Lightmapped Terrain
• q3map vs Q3Map2

Downloads

• Q3Map2 2.5.x (out of date)
• Q3Map2 2.3.x (out of date)
• MD3Fix
• Sample Maps

Links

• Official Forums hosted by Splash Damage
• Screenshots Archive

Screenshots

Images of some of Q3Map2’s features, including radiosity, procedual fur, lightmapped terrain, normal/bumpmapping, ambient occlusion, procedural surface models and surface optimization.

About

LiveJournal is an pioneering online social service originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick while in school at the University of Washington. LiveJournal is built almost entirely from open source software.

Several notable pieces of software and technology were originally developed for LiveJournal, including Memcached, Perlbal, MogileFS, Gearman, TheSchwartz, djabberd and OpenID.

Contributions

• Wrote the core JavaScript library used by LiveJournal.
• Developed standardized blog templates and CSS. Supported IE5+ on Windows and Mac OS, Firefox and Safari.

About

GtkRadiant is the official open source toolchain for Id Tech 3 (the Quake III: Arena engine). Originally was written for Linux as a port of Q3Radiant using the GTK+ toolkit, it was backported to Windows, OS X and eventually grew to support a number of games including Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and Doom 3.

I owned the level compiler, Q3Map2. I also contributed the DXT image reading library and PicoModel, a BSD-licensed 3D mesh loader.

About PicoModel

Similar to libjpeg, PicoModel is a lightweight open source library for loading 3D meshes. It supports various ASE, 3DS, Lightwave and a number of Id Tech [Quake] model and their variants.

Originally written as part of the GtkRadiant project for Q3Map2, it was released under a BSD license.

• Browse Source (Trac)
• PicoModel on Google

In a whirlwind pair of weekends working for EA, I added support for the Medal of Honor engine to Q3Map2 so the designers could compiled their maps faster.

About

Jedi Academy was the fourth game in the Jedi Knight / Dark Forces series of games from LucasArts. It was developed by Raven Software using the Id Tech 3 engine. Raven used GtkRadiant and Q3Map2 to create the game’s levels.

Images

Screenshots from Jedi Academy showing off radiosity, lightmapped terrain, complex models and lighting.

About TypePad

TypePad is an award-winning hosted professional blogging platform from Six Apart. Built on a technology platform shared with Movable Type, Vox and LiveJournal, TypePad enables thousands of professional bloggers, corporations and small businesses communicate with their customers and readers.

Contributions

• Managed the TypePad engineering team.
• Co-architected the “portalization” project, enabling TypePad to be a white-label or co-branded product. This was used by Friendster, Major League Baseball and numerous other partners.
• Wrote the core TypePad JavaScript library.
• Developed standardized blog templates and CSS. Supported IE5+ on Windows and Mac OS, Firefox and Safari.

About

Between 2004 and 2008, we built up a rather decent JavaScript platform at Six Apart. It was rewritten refactored three times, once for TypePad, once for LiveJournal and finally for Vox. Like many JavaScript libraries, it has an implementation of a class constructor, Date, Array, String, JSON and DOM utilities, an AJAX layer and a WYSIWYG editor.

It was fun to build. Props to the team who built massive chunks of it: David Davis, Chris Balz and Ben Trott. In October 2005, the core library was released under a BSD license, and over time more modules were moved from products into the core.

Links

• Browse Source (Trac)