BlinkDynamo

Hi! My name is Josh Hayden. Online I go by 'BlinkDynamo', often 'Blink' for short. I'm obsessed with programming and computers, focussing most of my energy on system tools and low-level software. My high-level software projects are often video games or .NET apps.

My Core Values

Tech is unavoidably driven by money. I understand the neccessity of this for driving innovation. That being said, all of the software developers I look up to have done what they've done for the core reason of solving extremely difficult problems, openly sourced, free of charge. Here are some names that come to mind:

• Linus Torvalds - Creator of the Linux kernel.
• Ken Thompson - Creator of B, Co-creator of UNIX and UTF-8 encoding.
• Dennis Ritchie - Creator of C, Co-creator of UNIX.
• Richard Stallman - Founder of the GNU Project and developer of countless GNU softwares (GCC, glibc, GNU Bash, coreutils, Emacs, etc.).
• Ramon Santamaria - Creator of raylib, along with countless educational tools for beginners.

Solo Projects

Of the many solo projects I have worked on over the years, these are currently the ones I am most proud of.

• nc-scout - A naming convention checker tool, written in C99.
• OpenAC - A code-blind recreation of OPAutoClicker.
• KeyHolder - A .NET password manager using Dapper and SQLite.

Contributions

Here are some notable public projects I am a contributor to.

• stumpless - A C logging library.