About Me
[Updated March, 2023]
Hi, I’m Roger Allen. I live near Portland, Oregon. I am a GPU Architect at NVIDIA. Originally, I am from the small town of Friendship, WI. I went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I’ve worked at a few Silicon Valley companies: Amdahl, Kubota Graphics, Silicon Graphics and 3dfx. I also did some stints co-oping at both Apple and IBM during my college years.
I’m writing this blog in the hopes of unifying a few online presences I have created over the years. We’ll see how this goes. I am not consistent in creating content, but if there is a common theme below it is to own your own means of production. Github seems like a good partner to use, but having a git repo means I can easily re-purpose my content if I want.
For public conversation I mostly tweet, or toot. (It is 2023 as I write this and it is no longer clear if we’ll be able to tweet for too much longer)
Since 2015 I’ve been running a bot that creates evolutionary imagery based on favorites & retweets as a fitness score. The bot is called “tweegeemee” and you can find it on Twitter, Mastodon and on Tumblr. There is also a website http://www.tweegeemee.com where you can explore all the images ever created.
I first got on the web when I worked at Silicon Graphics in the 90’s. I was at http://reality.sgi.com/rog/ wayback archive starting in 1996.
Way back in 2002 (maybe a bit earlier?) I create http://www.rogerandwendy.com/roger/index.htm wayback archive and I had a few explorations there. I’ve moved most of them to this site.
I started a blog on blogspot in 2004 but without anything driving my posts, this kind of fizzled.
I moved to blogging on posterous and I have a few articles there, but they got bought by Twitter and they eventually went away.
I had a spot on bitbucket prior to 2011 since I was exposed to hg before git, but git & github won that battle, and it hurt my brain to intermix git & hg.
I created my github account in 2011 to hack on the Overtone project, mainly. Along the way, I’ve found myself extremely impressed with the git flow and the github site. I wrote some blog entries about Overtone and creating sounds & music. Overtone was a fun project but I’ve moved on to different things.
I did make a soundcloud for my Overtone & music. Hope to add more here, eventually.