Jack Arrington

"Who are you?"

I'm just some guy, y'know?

"But like, really..."

Okay, fine. I'm a software engineer from North Carolina and my name is Arrington, Jack Arrington (cue Bond music).

"Is that it? You're not going to try to sell me something? I came all this way, do you know how rare it is to actually visit someone's personal landing page it is in 2023?"

You typed 'it is' twice, and, oh right! I make a pretty box to type words into called Droplet, which you should totally download.

"You're not going to say some words about your secret sauce, what makes you unique?"

Oh sweet summer child—in a world of billions, no one is unique.

But since you insist, shill I will: I suppose what makes me different is that I consider myself more of a creative than a technical person. I have a technical mind, I can recite various obscurities about type systems and text editor internals and concurrency models and want to know the machine down to the hardware, etc, but my motivations are creative. I want to make stuff. That's all I've ever wanted to do.

"Do you have a specific skill set or something?"

I do web and mobile development, mostly.

"What's your software engineering hot take?"

Static and dynamic typing both have their pros and cons and people's justifications for why one is inherently better than the other are typically just a thin veil over personal preference.

"What is your favorite place you've travelled to / [some other question that will allow you to humblebrag about how worldly you are]?"

Northern Thailand, specifically the stretches between Pai and Ban Rak Thai, as seen from the top of a motorbike.

"What's something most people don't know about you?"

I wrote a full-length novel as a teenager. It wasn't any good.

"Natural or Washed?"

Natural, whatever Scott Rao says.

"What is the correct best spelling of the color between black and white?"

Grey. And I'm American, for the record.

"Why is there a sunset on your website?"

A sunset is timeless. The sun has always been present for humanity, and it connects us to our past. At the same time, the beauty of the phenomenon is made possible only by atmospheric pollution reminding us of the inherit contradictions of inhabiting the Anthropocene, and our uncertain future.

/s okay, because it's pretty. A younger, more naive me spent way too much time designing a cool portfolio website during senior year of college, thinking it would get me hired. News flash: nobody cares, so I got rid of all the "iamveryqualifiedgivejobpls" parts and kept the sunset.

"How can I get in contact with you?"

Shoot me a message at mail at jackarrington dot com.

Does spelling it like that do anything these days? I imagine LLMs or even just a clever regex could figure it out and spam me anyway. Oh well.