Andrew Monks

I play Go, ride my bicycle, and work on iOS apps and a distributed database system.

I watch movies most days. Recently,

★★★½☆ The Dreamed Adventure,

★★★★½ La Gradiva,

★★★½☆ Everything Else Is Noise,

★★½☆☆ Ray Gunn, and,

★★★★☆ The Man I Love.

I listen to albums most days, too. Lately,

★★★★☆ Aaliyah by Aaliyah,

★★★☆☆ A Sun Came by Sufjan Stevens,

★★★★★ Filth by Swans,

★★★★½ He Has Left Us Alone, but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms… by A Silver Mt. Zion, and,

★★★★★ The Unseen by Quasimoto.

Sometimes I read books. Most recently, I

read ★★★★☆ The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares,

read ★★★★★ Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino,

read ★★★★½ Piranesi by Susanna Clarke,

read ★★★★½ The Complete Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, and,

read ★★★★★ Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

I was a staff engineer at Samsara Inc., where I worked on the mobile app platform and the hiring program, and occasionally on mechanisms like SOC2 and open source license compliance.

• worked on sites and apps for big brands,
• performed as a VJ,
• made a few music videos,
• got a degree in studio art,
• operated a local record label,
• published a newsmagazine,
• helped put on a parody opera, and,
• street-performed as a balloon twister.