Principal Engineer, type system nerd, Rust enthusiast, supporter of social justice, loving husband & father, avid comic & manga reader, 日本語を勉強してる。
I’m a Software Architect with more than 15 years of experience creating high performance server and front-end applications targeting web and mobile platforms, & today I lead a team at Formidable Labs.
I've been making some progress on my roleplaying game project, to which I've given the working title "In Character". To begin with, I've done some UI prototyping. Here's a glimpse of the core roleplaying interface in its infancy: [https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/konkl…
Brandon Konkle
In recent years, I have become quite an MMO enthusiast. MMOs are online games, most often RPGs, that feature a persistent world filled with thousands of players all exploring and conquering the game's content at once. The most effective MMOs give you great incentive to group up with your fellow…
Brandon Konkle
TechCrunch: Your App Is Slow Because Our World Is Ending [http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/13/your-app-is-slow-because-our-world-is-ending/] > But ask AMD; ask Broadcom; a considerable amount of evidence seems to indicate that over the last few years, at least on a bang-per-buck basis, the breakne…
Brandon Konkle
I'm loving the new Scott Snyder & Jim Lee series, Superman Unchained. The tension Scott Snyder built around the whole "18 seconds to save the tallest building in the world from falling" was fantastic, and the solution he came up with was very inventive. Jim Lee's art is as f…
Brandon Konkle
Update: This is a perspective I held for a short time in 2013 when I was heading in the direction of the front end but was concerned about the viability of single page apps for mobile. I now disagree with the opinion here, and fully believe that front end driven apps are the way of the future. Drew…
Brandon Konkle