My name is Michael Hoskins, and this is my blog.

I tend to geek out on a lot of stuff, and have been an avid geek since before the term somehow morphed into a synonym for cool. I think I will never understand how that happened, but at least in the grown-up world, being intelligent is an asset.

Work

My day job is the User Experience Manager for a small software development agency. Since working at a newer business consumes most of my free time (holy crap, so much to do!), I stay pretty busy most of the time with that work.

I am available for freelance work through VarianceLab.

Play

My dream as a child was to make a living creating video games. I created a couple games at a previous job, experienced crunch time, and found out that crunch time is standard for game developers. I no longer want to make a living creating video games.

Thankfully, a huge portion of my favorite multimedia projects have me writing code for user interaction which is translated directly to screen animation. This is as close to game programming as I'd like to get.