I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and got to enjoy the arrival of ubiquitous home computing, the Internet, World Wide Web, and watched them transform into what they are now.

I truly believe that the gaming and internet technology we had in those eras got it right, and many of the technologies that arrived after the mid-2000s were steps in the wrong direction. I built the Tomodashi design philosophy around that perspective.

My games and internet software are designed to take the best aspects of 80s and 90s software design, and make them relevant for today.

Development Tools

Permacomputing has become a useful catch-all to describe the kinds of software and hardware I work with.

While I love my retrocomputing machines, they are fairly miserable to work on for day-to-day development! I prefer to create new software that looks and feels like old software, on middle-aged hardware.

I prefer working on a mix of relatively old Macintosh hardware that is more than fast enough for development work. The core idea behind running older and slower hardware is to ensure that people who use Tomodashi software can run it well on anything from the mid-2000s onwards.

Hardware

Desktop: 2013 Mac Pro (Trashcan) Quad-core & 27-inch Apple LED Cinema Display

Kitchen Workstation: 15-inch 2015 Macbook Pro i7

Café: 13-inch 2013 Macbook Air

Music: Sony MZ-R900 MiniDisc Recorder

Software

Coding: Visual Studio Code - I love intellisense!

Pixel Art: Aseprite

Web Language: PHP

Desktop Language: Lua

Markup Language: Bug - my own little invention :D

Source Control: git - a necessary evil :(

Games

I generally play super interactive stuff! RPGs like Ultima VII: The Black Gate, Fallout and Planescape: Torment. I also adore Katamari Damacy, Another World and The Last Express for their sense of place and imagination.

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