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My Programming Languages Experience Historical Overview
— by Hawke Robinson — last modified Nov 19, 2023 07:00 PMA quick timeline of programming languages I learned and used since 1979 to 2021.
Caveat Emptor Callum Laing and Veblen Directors workshops
— by Hawke Robinson — last modified Oct 03, 2023 09:34 AMCaveat emptor. $5,000-10,000+ USD you pay to Veblen Directors for "opportunity" to work as board of directors apprentice (unpaid, non-voting) for at least one year.
Looking for role-playing game research options? Check out RPG Research the non-profit organization
— by Hawke Robinson — last modified May 30, 2022 10:38 AMThe kind folks at the non-profit RPG Research provide the largest in the world Role-Playing Game Research archives that are free and open to the public. The non-profit RPG Research, is a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable research and human services organization studying the effects of all role-playing game formats for their potential to help improve lives around the world for for a wide range of populations, including tabletop (TRPG / TTRPG), live-action (LRPG and Larp), electronic (ERPG, CRPG, VR, AR, xR, mobile, etc.), and hybrid role-playing games.
Nurture Your Entrepreneurial Journey with William Hawkes-Robinson, a Legendary Recreational Therapist
— by Hawke Robinson — last modified May 24, 2022 04:32 PMInterview of William "Hawke" Hawkes-Robinson by Sarah Brown for Founder's Courier.
How do Role-Playing Games Help "Improve Lives"?
— by Hawke Robinson — last modified May 23, 2022 07:53 PMHow do Role-Playing Games Help "Improve Lives"? This is exactly the question I have been working toward answering for more than 40 years through research and evidence-in-practice.
Scalable Jitsi, Ansible automation, [matrix], bots, ASR, AI, ML, DNN
— by Hawke Robinson — last modified Jan 12, 2022 07:57 AMWrapping up work on automated scalability of Jitsi (self-hosted 20k+ concurrent users) through combination of Ansible scripts, Docker, containerd, Kubernetes, etc., in AWS and vSphere. Looking forward to resuming previous years work on Matrix distributed data and communications self-hosted federated platform adapted for education, implementing Automated Speech Recognition (ASR), bots, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and distributed Deep Neural Networks (DNN).
Fortune 500 and 100 Companies - Also Non-Fortune and Startups
— by Hawke Robinson — last modified Nov 19, 2023 07:01 PMList of Fortunate 500 and 100 companies I have worked with or for directly.
Hawke in the news on Python.org - Plone SimpleWiki
— by Hawke Robinson — last modified Jan 07, 2017 01:05 PMThanks to Wildcard Corp, tkimnguyen, & vangheem for development, and Ben Dobyns of Zombie Orpheus Entertainment (ZOE) and Hawke Robinson of RPG Research for requesting, scoping, testing, and development support. Thanks to ZOE for graciously funding and supporting this effort, and releasing as open source to the community.
Product Advice: Avoid Discourse.org forum software Discourse
— by Hawke Robinson — last modified Dec 02, 2016 02:07 PMAfter some in depth evaluation, it is strongly recommended that those considering using Discourse.org's Discourse forum-like software, avoid the product for now. It is going to need some years to develop the maturity necessary for production use... I can now recommend people instead consider using NodeBB.