Hey, I’m Mark Anderson! I’m a lefty New York/Philly expat living in Northern Virginia. I’ve got a Masters in Electrical Engineering and one in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Just generally a loudmouth malcontent.
I love video games, tabletop games, science-fiction, makerspaces, retro-electronics, and every nerd thing you could possibly hyper-fixate on. Not a huge fan of the toxic spaces that they breed, so leave that on Reddit and Twitter if you want to hang out here.
Passionate about taking things apart and (sometimes) putting them back together. This goes double for electronics and social-systems.
My day job for the last decade has been Mobile Application Development. Before that, I helped build server chips at IBM. In grad school I did microelectronics processing handcrafting artisanal transistors and then supercomputers simulating things on machines that in another five to ten years will probably be slower than your laptop.
With all that nerd stuff, some surprising stuff about me—I’m an Eagle Scout, and love cities and the middle of nowhere equally.
People who have paid me
I’m working now at OutSystems working on Capacitor from Ionic.
Before that, I worked on the current iOS app version 5 from Capital One from the first day after we ditched IBM Worklight (a Cordova knockoff). Then, I was part of a small group working on the Fundrise iOS App.
Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I built chips for IBM Z-Series, and worked the clean room at RPI in this fancy clean room.
Work I do for free, or how I learned to love Open Source
I work on Capacitor as an open source project, and get paid to do it, actually. So the headline is a bit of a lie.
I’m also committer and maintainer at MacPorts (@MacPorts). Here’s my wiki page.
I’m also a big fan of NovaLabs, and have been a member for a while. I teach classes and build stuff hopefully you’ll see here.
Find me on the Internets
- This Website you’re on!
- Threads
- Keybase
- Emer Andersson in Fallen London
- @markemer on Twitter
- No longer active on The Service Formerly Known As Twitter.
- Instead of Twitter, here is my Twitter archive—markemer.blue. I bought markemer.blue instead of Twitter Blue for a yearly cost that’s cheaper than Twitter blue monthly