hunter.loftis.dev

I'm a software engineer who loves building creative tools and real-time systems.

I work at Adobe on Photoshop Web and on Adobe's design system, Spectrum.

Projects

• Date Night Questions
  • Tarot-inspired card deck web-app for mobile, tablet, and desktop.
• Table of Sending
  • Real-time distributed tabletop gameplay via WebRTC, WebSockets, WebGL, and Web Components.
• Node.js on Heroku
  • I was responsible for Heroku's node platform from 2015-2018.
• Storj
  • Distributed file streaming in Go ala storj.io.
• Salesforce Evergreen
  • I managed the runtime control-plane engineering team for Evergreen through 2019.
• Stoppable
  • Zero-downtime HTTP shutdown for Node.js with about 7 million annual installs.
• Throng
  • Simple process clustering for Node.js with about 2 million annual installs.
• Ray Tracing in One Weekend
  • A chapter-by-chapter Go port of Peter Shirley's excellent C++ books.
• PBR
  • Physically-Based Rendering in Go.
• Jackrabbit
  • A RabbitMQ library for Node.js.
• Space Snake (left/right arrows)
  • Ludum Dare 38 entry that placed third in the graphics category.
• Asteroids (arrows + shift), Flappy (any key or tap), Breakout (mouse)
  • Simple games built in vanilla JavaScript for presentations and workshops.
• Awaiting
  • Async/await utility for JavaScript.
• Newton
  • Toy JS physics engine.

Writing

• A Go Roguelike (2020)
  • Entity-component systems, generics, structure.
• Renamed Types in Go (2017)
  • Maintainability through types.
• 10 Habits of a Happy Node Hacker (2016)
  • The Heroku Blog.
• Playful JavaScript (2014)
  • Raycasting, physics, and fractals.

Presentations

• Let's Build a Game
  • Music City Tech 2019
• JavaScript Objects, from Beginner to Expert
  • TriadJS 2018, Connect.Tech 2018
• Painting with Light
  • GopherCon 2018, GopherCon EU 2018, Scenic City Summit 2018
• Making Sense of Multiplayer
  • Connect.Tech 2018, RevolutionConf 2018
• Production-Ready Node.js
  • Connect.Tech 2017
• Stop JavaScripting Like It's 1999
  • NCDevCon 2017, Connect.Tech 2017, CharlotteJS 2017
• Playing with Pixels
  • RevolutionConf 2017, Refresh Charlotte 2017
• Wine and Design with JavaScript
  • TriadJS 2017
• Promises are terrible; start using them!
  • Nodevember 2016
• Nobody Wants Junior Developers
  • Nodevember 2015, Skookum Night Shift 2015
• We Will All Be Game Developers
  • JSConf EU 2014, Nodevember 2014, ForwardJS 2015, ConvergeSE 2015
• Production-Ready Node Architecture
  • Nodevember 2014
• Mobile Development with HTML5
  • ConvergeSE 2012
• Beyond Toys: Deploying a production node app to the cloud
  • NYC Node.js Meetup July 2012