Folks, I've got a seven month old baby and a couple months of savings left, and I need a job. Read on for my whole deal.
Hi, I'm Paul Starr. You might know me from cult classic websites like Continent Clicker, the Evangelion Title Generator, OUR AUDIENCE INCLUDES, Southwestern Molybdenum Supply, Disk Horse, and more. Perhaps you've read a manga or light novel I edited or translated, like Haruhi Suzumiya, Spice & Wolf, or most recently, Me & Roboco.
I'm in the awkward middle part of a career change out of manga publishing and into software, and my first big opportunity in the latter has just wrapped. I had the incredible good fortune to join the Engagement Marketing team at Adobe for a year, working with Lore Sjøberg (yes). I learned an enormous amount about real-world development, and became a fair hand at PHP along the way.
Before that, in a 12 week batch at the Recurse Center, I developed Serifu, a markup language for comic book scripts. I both created and refined the syntax and wrote a parser and editor for the language, along the way learning the Codemirror editor-building library and implementing both a writer-facing script editor and a letterer-facing InDesign plugin for the language. To my knowledge this is the only tool for sequential art script composition that addresses the needs of both writers/translators and letterers. I use it every day for my work on Me & Roboco.
Are you or someone you know hiring a junior-ish software developer with no ego and borderline pathological curiosity? That's me.
Do you need a computer generalist to help you make something?
Do you need an exquisite voxel model of your home or favorite vintage user interface? Or a quirky theme song for your podcast or video game?
Do you need a sonnet composed and presented as a photorealistic render, or a double dactyl about Anakin Skywalker?
Do you not need any of those things but feel like a guy who can provide them would be good to have on hand? If so, I implore you not to be a stranger.
Here's my resume. My email address is pts@sockdolager.net.