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I make code things that draw things. I try hard not to build on top of quicksand. Not a big fan of jerks.
https://www.rezmason.net
edit: holy crap, I just figured it out: "Set Utilities Pattern" replaces the background pattern of every desk accessory, such as the Calculator and Scrapbook apps, Find File, Key Caps, Puzzle— with the pattern you chose. What a different time that was!
Remote: Preferred but not mandatory
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: WebGL, WebGPU, TypeScript, vanilla JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Unity, Three.js, Node.js, React, Haxe
Portfolio: https://rezmason.net/projects
Résumé: https://rezmason.net/Jeremy_Sachs_Resume_2025.pdf
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremysachs
GitHub: https://www.github.com/Rezmason
Email: career@rezmason.net
About me:
Senior software engineer specializing in game dev and graphics programming. 7 years of browser game dev, 6 years of mobile game dev, 2 years of professional web dev.
Twenty years of side hustle!
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/coder-makes-matrix-green-rai...
- https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/verreciel
- https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/hiversaires
- https://github.com/Rezmason/drivey
- https://rezmason.github.io/wireworld-player
- https://rezmason.github.io/birefringence-lcd
I want to build things that empower people; creative tools, data visualizations, whatever expands people's capacity to succeed. I'm curious about developer advocacy roles, and positions where my enthusiasm and communication skills close gaps. Beyond all that, I still like making games.
Roll call!
This is a cool site. I thought I'd look for a page about my favorite syntactic phenomenon, "what all", and not only did I find it, but also they changed the "Who says this?" section header to "Who all says this?"
Does anyone want to form an ACM Cool Papers Club?
https://codepen.io/rezmason/pen/empBWgY?editors=1111
Beyond some basic style variation, I think there's a lot of room for experimentation with shapes and their centers of rotation.
"I am Jack's native declarative transition."
zstyle ':omz:plugins:nvm' lazy yesIn 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis, one of my commencement speakers (and the recipient of an honorary doctorate) was Kenneth Chenault, CEO of American Express. I don't remember his exact words, but his message to the graduating class was, we have a different perspective on the world and different values— thriftier ones, necessarily— and if we stay true to them, the world will reflect them when we succeed.
"Maybe instead of having a car, like your parents' generation, your first big purchase may be a bike. Times change." Something like that.
Four days later, he laid off four thousand workers from AmEx, just a smidge more people than the graduating class.
Edit: according to Wikipedia, that year he took home $16.6 million.
A year or two ago, YouTube flicked a short at me where a Gen-Z fan of some personality shared their feelings of heartbreak after he announced his departure from the platform.
A montage of the channel's videos had the fan's voiceover (I'm paraphrasing): "This YouTube channel has been a part of my life, my childhood, since I was like a little kid, and I never imagined one day it would end."
And then, jarringly: "This is me right now." And a still photo of their tear-streaked face. "This is me right now," not in the emotional or confused tone of someone navigating a personal tragedy, but the straight conveyance of a sentiment that has social currency. A sentence they knew others would know how to digest. Because they've seen others use it enough times to be literate in whatever transaction it represents.
I understand their choice to include their emotional reaction, and that shows some real vulnerability that I truly appreciate, but what is "This is me right now"? Maybe it springs from the social media they grew up in— where the vast majority of posts and comments are either a status or a reaction, and discourse has been strained and reduced into signals of acknowledgement.
That's what I think this "literalism" is. It's the misshapen MICR-font metadata stamped in cultural things, so that they can be parsed by a machine— and the machine is the set of heuristics younger generations have adopted to sift through mountains of low signal-to-noise content that platforms are pushing on them.
Edit: good lord, what's it doing with these hotspots? Is all the checkbox progression outside of the emulators, in "screen space"? By analyzing specific pixels in the current emu framebuffer?!
https://aresluna.org/site/scripts-frame-of-preference.js?v60
The versions of these color pickers that were included in builds of Copland contain the strings "Hey what?" (for the HSL picker) and "Scheherazade" (for the crayon picker). Might those have been some of yours?
https://rezmason.net/chattin_with_jkcalhoun/copland_colorpic...
If y'all like icons, I'm not above plugging my free Mac screensaver, Iconic, an "Aqua Icons" screensaver remake which attempts to showcase the icons you didn't know you have, and highlight some noteworthy icons of Mac history:
I might try adding reflections and translucency to ice someday.
- at first, maybe he wanted to focus on anything else for a while. Shame, stress and anger don't always diminish when you share something on the Internet ;)
- at first, maybe he was worried it would jeopardize his colleagues' careers
- maybe he was worried it would jeopardize his own career
- maybe someone intimidated him
- maybe he didn't have the bandwidth to share this for a while
- maybe he found more fulfillment doing something other than talking about this, and stuck to that for a while
- maybe he was waiting for a good moment to share this message, and decided now was the time
Can you think of a reason why he'd be dishonest that's more likely?
The earliest Flash projects were these artful assemblages of scripts dangling from nested timelines, like an Alexander Calder mobile. They were at times labyrinthine, like they are in many similar tools, but there were ways to mitigate that. Later on, AS3 code was sometimes written like Java, because we wanted to be taken seriously.
Many Flash community members wanted to share their source, wanted a space where interested people could make changes. We did the best we could, uploading FLA files and zipped project directories. None of it turned out to be especially resilient.
It's one of the things I admire about Scratch. If you want, you can peek inside, and it's all there, for you to learn from and build off of, with virtually no arbitrary barriers in place.
Did you ever get hit with a paper airplane as you did? ;)
Thanks for this reply, and if you're who I think you are, thank you for all the good work you did alongside these other folks :D
Maybe I should show some initiative! See, for a little while now I've wanted to just chat with you about whatever.
At this moment I'm working on a little research project about the advent of color on the Macintosh, specifically the color picker. Would you be interested in a casual convo that touches on that? If so, I can create a BlueSky account and reach out to you over there. :)