About Me

Hi! My name is Jackson Roberts. I graduated in May 2021 from the University of Colorado Boulder. I currently work at WorldQL. Previously, I worked at Halp (acquired by Atlassian) where I built the first version of their Jira Server integration now used by customers. Further back, I worked at Section.io on their CDN product.

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I can be contacted via email at [email protected]

Socials #

GitHub, Twitter, LinkedIn, Hacker News

Some of my interests and projects #

• Game development and modding
  • WorldQL: Making massively-multiplayer development accessible to any developer.
  • Mammoth: Scalable (1000+ players) Minecraft server architecture powered by WorldQL.
  • Potion Factory: An incremental game I made back in high school which was played by over 75,000 people.
• Decentralized systems and blockchain
  • Moracle: A prototype oracle service for the Lisk blockchain. Here's me speaking about it at Lisk.js 2019 in Berlin.
• Hackathons!
  • Picture of my team at HyconHacks in Seoul, SK. We took second place and ₩10,000,000 with our blockchain-based permission management tool.
  • 1st place overall at HackCU 2018
  • Best use of Snap Kit at HackCU 2019
  • Best use of IBM Bluemix at AT&T Mobile Hackathon
  • An article about my first ever hackathon win in 2013. I've been a hacker nearly my whole life!
  • Probably a few others I'm forgetting...

Unpopular Opinions #

• Art (and NFT) sales enable less money laundering than you think. Most high-priced art and collectible purchases are legitimate.
• We will never experience mass unemployment due to advances in artificial intelligence.
  • Furthermore, AI's most important impact on the workplace will be making it more social.
  • Most work is social in nature, a field in which humans will always reign supreme. AI replaces gruntwork, leaving workers more time to communicate with their peers.
• Even experienced developers should use a git GUI. I learned the command line first, but Sublime Merge saves me so much time and sanity.
• The best combat in a Zelda game is in A Link Between Worlds. I think that it outshines combat in any of the 3D Zelda games by offering responsive gameplay without a targeting system.