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I’m a product engineering manager from Portland, Oregon. Outside of work I like to ride my bike, play soccer, and tinker on projects that involve 3D printing, electronics, programming, and woodworking.

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I’ve been working on a web game called Ion Drift —an incremental roguelite where you dodge projectiles and clear enemy waves in a single-screen arena. You destroy asteroids to earn ion charges, upgrade your ship between runs, and manage your oxygen to survive as long as possible.

Playable Link: https://iondrift.net/

It’s a hobby project built with PixiJS, and it uses some open assets from Endless Sky.

Would love any feedback!

3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to create products that provide real value, products that didn’t exist before I designed them. On top of that, it’s satisfied my desire to ship products, even if the end-user is just me.

My setup is relatively simple but I'm happy with it. All my content is stored on a Synology DiskStation DS213 NAS with 2x3TB RAID 0 configured drives. This is hands down the best NAS I've ever used. It's super easy to set up and the interface is awesome (all linux-based). I've set it up with Dynamic DNS/Port Forwarding so it's accessible from anywhere. The DS213 supports torrenting via the "Download Station" and I use various RSS feeds to automatically download the shows I like right on the NAS itself.

I stream content from the NAS to a little Pivos XIOS DS device running XBMC on the local network. This little streamer handles HD content easily and it's also officially supported by the XBMC team. I spray-painted it black so it looks very similar to an AppleTV2. The Pivos is connected to my Samsung TV and I use an MX-500 Universal Remote to control both the Pivos and my TV. It's a great remote with amazing IR range, you don't even need to aim it. Pretty regularly I will start a download on the NAS from work(or my phone) so it's done and waiting to be watched when I get home.

All in all I really like this setup - virtually no maintenance and it works perfectly for what I want. I went the whole custom LAMP + NAS Server route a few years back. It worked ok but eventually proved to be too difficult to use and maintain.