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Dillon Shook
Autodidact & Zero One Infinity Advocate

Location Boston, MA

Interests Programming, Photography, Cooking, Game Development, Reading, Guitar, Running, Travel, Never having enough time...

Working On fusion energy at CFS

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Education B.S. Computer Science, New Mexico Tech

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Top Posts
Unity Save Game Editor • Nov 2019
What it Takes to Make a Game by Yourself • Sep 2022
Laid Off for the First Time In My Career, and Twice In One Year • Jan 2025
A Critique of React Hooks • Apr 2020
Passion Over Profits • Aug 2025
2025
9 posts
10-29
Web 4.0
#thoughts #ideas #web
08-14
Passion Over Profits
#career #thoughts
05-19
Launching is the Second Hardest Part
#cat-search
04-04
5 Tips for Starting a New Job
#thoughts #career
03-21
Surprisingly Cheap and Powerful Server Hosting for Indie Devs in 2025
#cat-search #performance
03-06
Sowing the Seed Data
#cat-search
02-20
So What Exactly is MVP Anyways?
#cat-search
01-28
The Second Best Thing You Can Do in Your Career
#career #thoughts
01-05
Laid Off for the First Time In My Career, and Twice In One Year
#career
2024
14 posts
12-05
Starting is the Hardest Part
#entrepreneurship #cat-search
11-14
Starting Something New
#entrepreneurship #cat-search
11-07
The Pseudocode Programming Process
#programming
10-31
This Post is Cursed
#interactive #javascript
10-24
Why AB Test If You Can ABCD Test?
#testing #tutorials #interactive
10-17
What Do You Visualize While Programming?
#thoughts
10-11
How Do You Pronounce oklch?
#web
10-02
2024: A Blog Odyssey from Ghost through Hugo to Astro
#thoughts #meta #web
09-19
What Do You Think 2030 Will Be Like?
#thoughts #predictions
09-12
The Best Software Development Lifecycle
#thoughts
09-05
Change at the Highest Level Is Impossible
#thoughts
08-30
Where Did All the Tech Bloggers Go?
#thoughts #meta
08-13
Failing Upwards Again
#thoughts #entrepreneurship
02-27
Planned App-solescence
#thoughts #game-dev
2023
1 post
05-17
Tradeoffs in Testing
#testing #thoughts
2022
3 posts
11-08
Testing Next.JS with Cypress and Mock Service Worker
#tutorials #javascript #testing #web
09-15
What it Takes to Make a Game by Yourself
#game-dev #c-sharp #thoughts
03-23
What Language am I Writing Again?
#thoughts #programming
2020
4 posts
08-01
How Hard is your Email to Say?
#thoughts
06-30
Your Reach is More Than You Think
#thoughts
05-07
A Critique of React Hooks Addendum
#react #javascript #web
04-27
A Critique of React Hooks
#javascript #react #web
2019
3 posts
11-18
Unity Save Game Editor
#game-dev
06-16
Hex Map Area Borders
#game-dev #tutorials #c-sharp
04-03
Minimizing string GC in Unity
#game-dev #c-sharp
2018
1 post
12-14
Actions and Selections with Card Lang
#game-dev #card-lang #jison
2017
2 posts
12-13
Introducing Card Lang
#game-dev #card-lang #jison
12-02
A Better Isometric Camera Control
#game-dev #isometric
2015
1 post
07-08
The Asynchronous Journey
#javascript #programming
2014
5 posts
10-16
Upgrade Your Brain Virtual Machine
09-24
Leaflet Zip Code Map Part 2
#tutorials #javascript #c-sharp
09-24
Leaflet Zip Code Map Part 1
#tutorials #javascript #c-sharp
09-10
Bucking the Naming Trend
09-03
Infini-woes
#antipatterns
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