Michael Plotke
I'm a senior software engineer with a track record of leading teams in building and deploying successful products.
I wrote a story of leadership and impact at Poll Everywhere, my most recent employer.
Public Code
This portfolio website generated via the Zola static site engine and written in SCSS and vanilla JS.
A Takahashi method inspired presentation application written in Nim and using WebUI.
A Gemini server written in PHP.
A website for my JavaScript Advent of Code solutions built on hyperHTML.
An ambiance mod for Minetest written in Lua.
A command line hangman game written in C (and including a complete English word list).
Tech Posts
Introduction to C Programming - Coding a Command Line Hangman Game, walking though the hangman game mentioned above.
Building a Command Line Alarm Clock for Linux with Bash , which contains substantial information about shell scripting in general.
Using ANSI Color Codes to Colorize Your Bash Prompt on Linux , which covers how prompts are constructed and how color works in terminals.
Introduction to Coding with SASS via Including ANSI Output in HTML, where I explain how I easily included the colored terminal output in the above prompt article.
Experiments
I currently use LEO, the Gemini server mentioned above, to serve a capsule from a 2008 Samsung NC10 netbook sitting in my basement running 32-bit Void Linux. You can find it at gemini://plotke.me/ using a Gemini client, like Lagrange.
Efficient selection of cells in a massive table with visualization using CSS Grid and various React performance optimization techniques.
Displaying digital clock style numbers using React and SCSS.
Subtle spinners using CSS animations.