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robbiebyrd/README.md

Hi! I'm Robbie Byrd


I'm a seasoned Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience in a wide range of technologies and business categories.

My favorite languages to use are Go, Python and Typescript, but I have experience in a diverse array of different languages, frameworks and technologies.


About me

I live in Austin, TX with my husband and our three dogs. C.B. is an Italian Greyhound/Terrier Mix, Dax is a Yorkshire Terrier/Corgi mix, and Rusty is an Australian Cattle Dog/Golden Retriever Mix. They live very, very, very comfortably.

I specialize in Full-Stack development, with an emphasis on systems architecture, platform growth & stability and design systems. My many years in technology include experience in a variety of business categories, technology challenges and novel techniques.

My hobbies include the preservation of multimedia and history, Smart Home technology, amateur radio, theatrical lighting and production, dogs and cycling with my dogs.

Before my career in technology, I was a news reporter, covering crime and capital punishment, as well as a part-time DJ.

Selected Works:


My Projects

911realtime.org

The 9/11 Realtime Experience: an immersive, real-time experience of publicly available media from September 11, 2001.

Visit the Site | View the Repo


Classicy

Classicy is a collection of React components that make it easy to add a customizable Webtop to your app with a unique & retro look.

Classicy is a Webtop, framework. It provides a simulated desktop environment in a web browser. Classicy also provides a powerful and easy-to-use framework and library of components to “Classicyze” any React application. Classicy’s components are written in Typescript, and can be used with any React framework. Classicy emulates all the common items of a true Operating System and Graphical User Interface.

See a Demo! | Visit the Site | View the Repo


Aye-Aye!

Inspired by the British game show that started in 1982, this multiplayer online game pits two teams against one another in a match of letters and math(s).

The game consists of three distinct rounds: the "letters" round, where players draw nine random letters and must compose the longest word they can; the "numbers" round, where players draw a random set of numbers and must reach a target number using only basic math operations; and the "conundrum" round, where users must solve a nine-letter anagram.

Play Aye-Aye Now! | View the Repo


Stirling Engine

The Stirling Engine is meant to be a lightweight, efficient way to process incoming media files. A Stirling Job can normalize uploaded media, extract data from the media and analyze it for additional data enhancements, such as subtitles or metadata.

Stirling also can re-encode media using modern, stream-ready standards, and package media and metadata in a standard, open format.

View the Repo


MOOMP

A re-creation of MOO, the famed text-based, massively-multiplayer online text game system developed at XEROX PARC MOOMP (short for 'MOO with MQTT, MongoEngine and Python') provides an asynchronous environment for building text based, open-world games. Users can connect to the game using Telnet (complete with graphics and colors), or with an HTML client via a Websocket connection. Users can add programmability to objects using a LUA-based scripting engine, and objects can inherit properties and code from parent objects.

MOOMP was initially created as a test-bed for autonomous, game-playing AI agents. AI agents can interact through a Websocket connection interactively as a human player, or fire MQTT events to affect the game programmatically.

View the Repo | Join the Game


KeepingHistory.org

Keeping History is an open source initiative to save, categorize and analyze history through multimedia. Keeping History is a collection of engineers who aim to save history.

Visit the Site | View our Github


Space Hippo, an Exploration Agency

Space Hippo is a boutique digital design and marketing agency using beautiful visuals and custom-built technology to help marketers and technologists reach new heights.

Space Hippo is my "freelance" entity, as well as a showcase of my design skills.

Visit the Site | View the Styleguide


My Stats


Contact

me@robbiebyrd.com

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  1. classicy classicy Public

    A collection of React components that make it easy to add a customizable Webtop to your app with a unique & retro look.

    SCSS 106 21

  2. Keeping-History/rt911 Keeping-History/rt911 Public

    Project to collect multimedia from the September 11 Attacks and synchronize them into a common media player.

    JavaScript 12 2

  3. Keeping-History/stirling Keeping-History/stirling Public

    The Stirling Engine is the processing tool for Keeping History. It provides media conversion and compression, data analysis, metadata enhancement, stream packaging and archival, and is extensible t…

    Python 1

  4. moomp moomp Public

    moomp

    Python

  5. aye-aye aye-aye Public

    Aye Aye is a Countdown-style, multiplayer online game.

    TypeScript 1

  6. Keeping-History/historycommons Keeping-History/historycommons Public

    A project to revive the HistoryCommons.org site

    Python 1