Hello, I'm Hayden!
I love building all sorts of things, but I mainly create software.
Currently I am a Software Architect working on Automation Tooling at Ford.
In my spare time I tend to work on many different side projects.
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After the Mixer streaming service closed in July of 2020, I worked to create an open-source implementation of their low-latency FTL streaming protocol.
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Mixperiment64 is a Covid-19 "quarantine project" to allow Mixer live streaming viewers to play N64 games with each other.
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Purdue.io provides a public API to access Purdue University's class scheduling system.
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Helping drive the automotive software revolution! Responsible for improving software quality through automation.
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Architected, built, and shipped new gaming surfaces like Controller Bar for Windows 11!
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Working on operating system components for cutting edge new Surface device form-factors.
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Creating a Foobar2000 Autoplaylist for Most Recent Music
I like to have a running playlist in my preferred music player (foobar2000) to show my entire library sorted by most recently added music first, since I have a tendency to want to play the hell out of new songs I find, and also enjoy taking trips through time by scrolling back to music from earlier eras and reliving memories from that period of my life.
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Setting P4merge as Default Git Merge Tool
Perforce’s p4merge tool has an excellent 3-way merge interface that VSCode (at least today) does not provide. The license also allows for free commercial use!
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Editing configuration.yaml on Home Assistant OS
I’ve recently started messing around with Home Automation, part of that has involved setting up an instance of Home Assistant - I opted to use the ready-to-run VM image that they provide for Hyper-V.