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Hello! My name is Liam. I work at TYT in the daytime and am hacking away at my broadcast software startup Astronaut Labs in the night time hours. I am passionate about all things media, especially audio and video systems. I have over fifteen years of experience as a professional software engineer and have worked on projects in many domains like health care, printshops, SMS marketing, and of course, lots and lots of media, both on the consumer side as well as professional media production tooling.

I have been in the open source community for at least twenty years, and have contributed code to a number of smaller projects, like Slicker (KDE Kicker replacement), SharpOS (a hobbyist OS written in C#). I have participated in community discussions in Mono (an open source .NET implementation), X.org, and KDE. I also have a number of open source projects that I'm actively developing today.

I am a politics junkie. I am unabashedly progressive. I participate in Democratic Socialists of America, I stand with Black Lives Matter, and I vote. I supported Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020. As you can imagine, my work at TYT is very satisfying for me. Fun fact: I got to meet Alexandria Ocasio Cortez in person when she came on The Young Turks some time after she won her primary and before she won the general election in 2018!

• devtools -- All your devtools in one place
• poker -- A simple standalone planning poker app
• sliptap -- Sliptap is a search engine focusing on media. Sliptap is constantly crawling the web and building an index of the world's media using JSON-LD and OpenGraph metadata.
• @astronautlabs/diazo -- Diazo is a directed acyclical graph editor component for Angular in the style of Unreal Engine's Blueprint system. It can be used for lots of domains and use cases!
• @astronautlabs/broadcast -- I am the author of Astronaut Labs' broadcast stack, which implements tons of audio/video/broadcast specifications in Typescript for use in our products and by the community at large.
• alterior -- Alterior is an application framework that primarily facilitates Node.js server applications of all types. It uses a dependency injection system that is similar to Angular, and you can even create libraries that can be consumed both in Alterior apps (backend) and Angular (frontend) apps, making it isomorphic.
• razmin -- Razmin is a new take on the classic Jasmine/Mocha style test framework, but modernized to match Typescript conventions and using Zone.js to make testing asynchronous code simpler and more reliable.

Over the years I have honed my preferred toolset quite a lot. Find below a list of components that I use (in addition to my libraries above) for almost every project. I've worked with many alternatives to the tech listed below, but I've found these solutions pack the best punch.

• Windows -- There was a time where I was not a fan of Windows, but through years of working with the Windows stack, especially .NET/C#, I have grown to appreciate its power. I use Windows for all of my desktop computing, and I do all of my development on Windows. I also have a good amount of experience administering enterprise Windows deployments including Windows Server (ActiveDirectory, Domains, SQL Server / IIS / ASP.NET)
• Linux -- Though I do my development on Windows, I deploy on Linux. I have been using Linux since circa 2003, and my first Linux distribution was Slackware, which I learned on my own as an angsty nerdy teenager. I have a deep understanding of Linux' architecture, having built experimental distributions based on Linux for fun.
• Kubernetes -- Abstract cloud native applications is today's reality.
• Linode -- Deploy your Kubernetes workloads here
• Typescript -- When I was introduced to Typescript with Angular 2, I fell in love. Fast forward to now (Angular 10 was just released) and I now use Typescript exclusively when building browser apps and Node.js services.
• Node.js -- I default to Node.js when building new server-side services, because I believe that the benefits of one language across frontend and backend is the most important consideration.
• Rust -- When Node.js isn't performant/low-level/etc enough, I reach for Rust.
• Angular -- I have been writing apps in Angular since Angular 2 beta (circa December 2015), and I was using AngularJS before that. I am enthusiastic and strongly invested in Angular as a platform, and I really love building apps with it
• Angular Material -- The Google Material Design implementation for Angular, Angular Material provides a rich suite of user interface controls that rarely leaves me wanting.
• Visual Studio Code -- I spend most of my day in front of VS Code and so should you!
• zone.js -- Zone.js is one of the most powerful libraries in my stack. A lot of the libraries I've built use it for one reason or another.

• streamatik -- Streamatik is a good looking Twitch multi-viewer.
• rezone -- I ❤️ zone.js, but I believe its API is difficult to use and somewhat overcomplicated. Zone.js also needs to become part of ECMAScript in order to continue working as new features like native async/await grow in usage, but standardization efforts have stalled for a number of reasons. Rezone aims to tackle both of these issues, creating a simpler, easier to use, and more intuitive API for zones, as well as proposes that its API become part of the ECMAScript standard, picking up where Domenic Denicola's Zones proposal left off