About me…

I am a developer & designer with a focus in front-end architecture and interaction design. My interests range from UI-design to 80's vintage computers (IBM PCjr, Apple //e, C64) to embedded computing, video codecs, CRTs and pixel-art.

Until late-2023, I was the Frontend Engineering Lead at Formant where I developed prototypes, tools, and designs for the future of robotic fleet monitoring and tele-operation. I love getting my hands dirty, learning new things and exploring new domains. To me, there isn't a line between engineering and design; I'm equally comfortable in Sketch as I'm in Sublime Text.

You can find me doodling on CodePen, helping other engineers on StackOverflow, pushing code to GitHub, or posting on Twitter about stuff I think is cool.

…to get in touch, e-mail me at j@holmes.codes

• Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - Final "Imbaru Engine" Puzzle
  Nov 8, 2023

  The finale of the most recent Season of the Witch did not disappoint, let's talk about the Imbaru Engine puzzle in Destiny 2.

• Redesign/Reboot
  May 28, 2018

  After a long hiatus, I've decided to redesign/reboot my previous personal site refactorman.com. Let's talk about a couple quick reasons why…

• Typographic Unicode
  Aug 9, 2015

  Here is a quick reference some common typographical characters, and how to express them in both HTML and CSS.

• Better Color Gradients with HSLuv
  Aug 8, 2015
• Exploring the Discrete Cosine Transform
  Apr 28, 2015

more posts

• github.com/32bitkid/sci.js

  JavaScript library and data‑structures for parsing and manipulating SCI0 resources from classic Sierra On‑Line adventure games.

• CSS 3½″ Floppy Diskettes Sketch

• github.com/32bitkid/mpeg

  An experimental/educational pure‑Go MPEG‑2 decoder.

• github.com/32bitkid/bitreader

  Provides basic interfaces to read and traverse an io.Reader as a stream of bits, rather than a stream of bytes.

• 60% Keyboard Sketch

• github.com/32bitkid/sci

  Go library and data‑structures for parsing and manipulating SCI0 resources from classic Sierra On‑Line adventure games.

• Tribute to a BASIC classic