badd10de

ideas for questions for an interview with badd10de (@bd)

on computing

i know your computing background is vast - from retrocomputing, to low level C, to your contributions to the Varvara and UXN ecosystems, to video game development, graphics programming, and so on…

• how did you originally get into programming and computing?
• what was your first programming experience like?
• what has kept you engaged with computing up to today?
• what projects and parts of computing today are you most excited about?

on creating programming languages

on a similar note, you’ve also created your own self-hosted programming language, badlang.

• what led you to create your own programming language - and what makes it unique?
• what are your biggest sources of inspiration, language wise?
• where do you want to take the language next, or, do you have plans for its future?

on video games

you’ve also worked on a variety of GBA code bases, and have obvious expertise in the realm of graphics programming and video game development.

• how did you get into graphical and video game programming?
• whats one of your all-time favorite games, and what did you like about it?
• have you been playing any games of late?

on music

similarly, your background in music also wide ranging, from digital signal processing, to theory and practice, to releasing your own music. in addition to [your own song], you even mixed and mastered the Merveilles ambient compilation elmet brae!

• where did your journey as a musician begin?
• what was your first instrument?
• where have you been spending your musical energies lately?
• what does your musical practice look today?

closing curiosities

• recent books, albums, or movies you’d recommend?
• favorite recipe lately?
• why badd10de?

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