About

Thanks for visiting this niche little corner of the net!

I'm a software engineer and this is my space to talk about my hobby projects.

Background

About the Author

For most of my life I've been designing and building things.

Since the early 2010's I've been working as a software engineer in New York, San Francisco, and internationally.

Professionally I work with Javascript, HTML, CSS, Ruby, PHP and similar web languages. Personally I work with those same languages, in addition to Rust, Godot/GDscript, Lua, C++, Python, and Bash, and more.

The Site's History

Up until 2023, this site was powered by my personal PHP framework, Lattice.

I enjoyed maintaining my own framework and using it for personal and contract work. However, when you maintain your own framework then building new websites involves a lot of work to expand and maintain the framework itself, on top of building and maintaining websites. It's educational and fun, but slow. Eventually I put my "Not Invented Here Syndrome" to rest so I could spend more time on finishing projects. I started using Laravel for new projects around 2020.

For a while I considered switching this website over to a Laravel too. However, this site doesn't really have any dynamic features, so I decided to try out a static site generator and found it worked great. Now this site is built using Sculpin.

Other Profiles

A lot of my public source code is available on github.com/moonbench.

Some of my videogames are available on moonbench.itch.io.

And I sometimes post as /u/moonbench.