Who are ya?

My name is Tim Horton (of no relation to the fast-food chain). I'm a recent graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, NY. I'm primarily a Mac user, but I dabble in whatever's necessary to do the job. I spend most of my free time either with a computer or a camera, programming, or taking pictures — Cocoa and Nikon being my preferences in those areas. I was a participant in Google Summer of Code '08; I spent my summer writing an engine allowing Evas to run natively under Mac OS X's rendering engine, Quartz. I returned again in 2009, this time working on 2.5D games for the Gnome Games collection. I spent the summer of 2010 interning in San Diego, CA, at Qualcomm, Inc., working on QChat and various supporting projects. I'm also a proponent of free and open licenses, placing most of my code under one of the various BSD-derived licenses and many photographs and video under various Creative Commons licenses.

What's this thing?

For a long while, I've been writing code, taking pictures, and thinking about things — creating lots of things that I really feel should be shared. I created this site as a means to that end, and, even if no one ever pays any attention, I've at least created an organized home for my ideas for myself! Everything here is here in a format that I understand, and you're all welcome to it. I'm willing to field questions, requests, hate mail, whatever, about anything on this site (or elsewhere!) through email, though I'll certainly not reply to everything!