Hello Steemit Community,
I'm Chris Wilson a mobile app and game developer based in the North of England on the outskirts of Manchester. A few years ago I was an active Administrator in the Cocos2d forums with a number of successful apps under my belt and regularly blogging my coding experiments.
Having always worked directly for my clients I got caught out for a while by the changing industry. People in tech appeared to be in competition to award themselves the most grandiose job title, "Creative visionary", "Digital Prophet", "Dream Alchemist" while development changed from the joy of communication and experimentation to one of "Just get it done, we'll worry about the consequences later".
At the same time I had a number of other factors that popped up out of nowhere;
- A client attempted to sue my company and me personally over a ridiculous IP claim (They lost).
- I Developed double vision and was sent to have my head examined (everything OK).
- For the first time in 15 years of freelancing had 2 clients deciding not to pay (Not nice, but resolved).
- We had to up sticks and move to the big smoke so my wife could train as a teacher.
It was at this point that Apple decided to put the boot in and pull an app, Sketchshare I had written with a friend just as it was taking off. The irony being it was taking off because they had promoted it in the App store as the iPad app of the week on one of those big banner things. That's another story for another time with a hopefully happier ending :)
A couple of years pass...
I'm now back in a much happier place and don't take things quite as seriously any more. I have two amazing daughters who love everything Science and Tech, live in a great village and get to pop into Manchester regularly to keep up with all the tech stuff going on in the North.
I really miss the community of the cocos2d forums, it was a fantastic time with an amazing bunch of developers and I'm looking forward to getting stuck into steemit.
The plan is to use my new found joy of techs to get the projects I've been working on finished, up onto steemit and simultaneously defeat the instant gratification monkey. These projects range from code experiments and electronics tinkering to a range of STEM activities aimed at educators and students.
Gallery of half finished stuff built watching YouTube videos
Hopefully with a bit of momentum I might even get a SuperTurboActionPig update out before Apple pulls that as well ;)
- Website: https://www.abitofcode.com
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/abitofcode
- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/abitofcode
Cheers
Chris
Hey there, welcome to the Steemit Community 😀 It's really an awesome place if you ask me and I'm just here for a few days so far. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do 😉 Have fun on Steemit!
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Welcome to Steemit Chris! I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do! :-)
Welcome to Steem @abitofcode I have sent you a tip
Thank you very much!
Welcome Chris. I love you gadgets, i was always intrigued by inventions and electronics. Since you are a developer, i am already convinced you are going to be a worthy follow. Can't wait for post about that roboclock. Cheers!
Looking forward to getting it working again. The design is based on one off the internet, there's a very similar version working here
Hold on for a second, i'm searching for my jaw. :)
Chris I am in awe of what you do and cant wait to see more of your posts. Very cheeky first post btw, I love it. Feel free to check out mine as well. I just joined the community too!
Cheers! Just had a look at your camping trip, fantastic photos!
Thanks so much! Going to try to post at least a couple times a week on here. I fricking love this place haha
Congratulations on landing yourself on the hippest and fast growing Social Media platform on the planet.Get ready buckle up !!!!! we going to mars with STEEMIT SHUTTLE!!!!!
THANK YOU
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Wow So much things you have done in the past years ... Loved those unfinished projects ..Reminded me of my college .... It is good that you support your wife ..Welcome to the family :) .. would love to read more posts by you .. keep posting
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Will follow you back! See you around.
I've a tonne of stuff that's almost there, one of my concerns was that I was passing my bad habit down to my eldest daughter.
bearly there ;)
Ha Ha ... Bearly There !
Welcome to steemit, happy to have you here
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Warm welcome to the steemians World !
Cheers! Current status = melting in Attic
Welcome to the platform, I wish everything work out for you. It’s not easy here but not difficult neither but just ask an extra effort, engagement is the key good luck I’m @goodaytraders Start by following people and they will do the same.
Ta, v much. I'm working my way through the FAQ's at the moment!
Welcome to family :) Follow me back and I will surprised you on August 1 ;)
Welcome to steemit. You are welcome to look at my post