Filip Hráček

Hi, I’m Filip. I’m a pro­gram­ming buff with formal train­ing in jour­nal­ism. I worked in Sili­con Valley, now I’m based in Prague. I build games, teach pro­gram­ming, explain things, and create silly soft­ware experiments.

Projects

• Giant Robot Game in development
• Knights of San Francisco iOS/Android game
• egamebook.com text game framework
• Insignificant Little Vermin sword & sorcery adventure
• Unsure Calculator tool and notation
• linkcheck link checker
• @year_progress mastodon bot
• @year_progress twitter bot
• Star map 2D self-organizing map
• conference_darwin evolutionary algorithm for conference schedules

Experiments

• Automatic Donald Trump Markov chain
• Life-time value calculator
• Fuzzy logic for web analytics proof-of-concept
• A.I. eshop cart proof-of-concept
• Startup namer web app
• Significant prime number finder web app
• Font with a story experiment
• Genetically brewed neural network ship captains experiment
• DJ notation proposal
• youtubeology.com research
• tmzns.com timezones converter
• YouTube subtitles prettifier web tool
• Script Prompter web tool
• Slot machine experiment
• Lorem ipsumize web tool
• Calendar linker web tool for Google Calendar
• docsToBlogger web tool
• mailto: persistence proof-of-concept
• Alojz.cz weather NLG system  (in Czech)
• Stav mobilního webu research  (in Czech)
• tisicknih.cz book recommendation engine  (in Czech)
• Github — all other projects

Social

• Filip’s newsletter
• Raindead Games Discord server
• Mastodon
• Twitter
• Github
• LinkedIn
• StackOverflow
• filip.hracekdeletethisifyourenotarobot@gmailthisaswell.com

Writing

• Filip’s newsletter (see above)
• Self-Improving Developer book
• Medium
  • Player agency in an open world, versus combinatorial explosion
  • Skyrim rendered in text
  • How Google builds web frameworks
  • The ‘Hello Word’ fallacy
  • Why I’m joining the Dart team, of all places
  • What kills toddlers in the U.S. [scatter plot]
• Runtime.cz blog  (in Czech)
• Vasil.cz collaborative blog  (in Czech)
• Centrum zábavy free ebook  (in Czech)

Public speaking

• YouTube channel
• Futuristic UI @ WebExpo 2023
• Secrets to Effortless Code Editing in Android Studio Udemy course
• Quick Start to Game Development in Flutter @ Flutter Vikings 2022
• Candid DevRel: The Flutter Boring Show @ DevRelCon SF 2019
• Pragmatic State Management in Flutter @ Google I/O 2019
• Announcing Flutter 1.0 demo @ Flutter Live 2018
• Build reactive mobile apps with Flutter @ Google I/O 2018
• Nové technologie mobilního webu @ WebExpo 2015  (in Czech)
• Přednáška o mobilech @ mDevCamp 2015  (in Czech)
• TL;DR přehled statistik @ mDevCamp 2014  (in Czech)
• Tipy a triky pro profesionální uživatele @ mDevCamp 2014  (in Czech)
• Technologie, o kterých byste měli vědět @ OMG Future 2013  (in Czech)
• Dart 1.0 @ DevFest Prague 2013  (in Czech)
• Google BigQuery and other tools for big data @ BigClean 2012
• Why Dart? @ dotJS 2012

Music

• Philip Age DJ sets
• Philip Age tracks

About this page

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