(fourth RacketCon): Daniel Prager — YouPatch: A Racket-powered startup
youpatch.com began as a hack in
Racket to save my wife PatchAndi 10 or so hours of effort to turn an image of
Groucho Marx into the design for a patchwork quilt, and evolved into a bootstrapped startup aimed at democratising the hitherto elite art of pixel quilt making. In this talk I recount the YouPatch story so far, discuss Racket's advantages for exploratory programming, and look at the options that face a creative programmer when (s)he comes up with an original idea.
Daniel has been programming creatively since his teenage years in the
1980s, starting with
Turbo Pascal and
Z80 assembly on a 64K CP/M machine, and most recently in Racket.
In between he took his PhD in mathematics (specifically computational
General Relativity) before crossing into software development and leadership, w
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