What does it look like to turn a Handmade project into a sustainable business? How can the Handmade ethos set our software apart from its competitors? And how might we sustain the development of important software, if we're not sure how to sell it?
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That experience shaped the rest of my career (you can read my essay about their philosophy: https://observer.com/2017/07/a-look-into-nasa-coding-philosophy-kennedy-space-center-programming/) You'll see I mention Handmade as the only movement "out there" that had a similar philosophy. I wanted to make Handmade stronger, so Casey let me organize the Handmade community. With the help of an amazing dev team we founded Handmade Network.
I met Jonathan Blow and I worked under him for ~3 years on the Jai compiler, a bit of Sokoban, and the Braid HD Remake. Here's an old interview where Jon and I talk sometime before he hired me: https://handmadedev.show/ep-10-2016/
After Jon I did a stint for Cyan Worlds on Myst VR (the game shipped last year.) They gave me a proper sendoff here: https://cyan.com/2022/04/13/some-sad-happy-news-to-share/
Finally you may remember Casey ran Handmade Con for a couple of years but then stopped. People asked me to take over and Casey gave me the greenlight 
I very quickly realized I'm just as much into human interactions as I am into computers, so I started running Handmade conferences full-time. Here's the 2022 announcement post: https://media.handmade-seattle.com/self-hosted-conference/
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We followed this model closely for Happenlance starting out.
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ïļ You'd be surprised how far this gets you.
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Thanks for putting this together!
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Cheers for organising it @bvisness and for the suggestion @Zeanith
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