Software designer, founder, and amateur astronaut.
I’m Spencer, a software designer
and entrepreneur based in New York City. I’m the founder and CEO of Planetaria, where we
develop technologies that empower regular people to explore space on their own terms.
Most
companies try to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to visual design, but for
Planetaria we needed to create a brand that would still inspire us 100 years
from now when humanity has spread across our entire solar system.
When you’re
building a website for a company as ambitious as Planetaria, you need to make an
impression. I wanted people to visit our website and see animations that looked
more realistic than reality itself.
When we
released the first version of cosmOS last year, it was written in Go. Go is a
wonderful programming language, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen an article
on the front page of Hacker News about rewriting some important tool in Go and I
see articles on there about rewriting things in Rust every single week.