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Extra Future is the work of Phil Nelson, a creative director, writer, designer, video creator and programmer from Michigan who now lives Out West. He has been writing and coding on the internet for as long as he can remember.
You may remember him from founding GameWikis.org (acquired by Wikia.com), working on the Structure Sensor, Bridge Headset, and Structure Sensor Mark II with Occipital Inc, running the million dollar OpenCV AI Kit and OAK-D-LITE Kickstarter campaigns, co-hosting OpenCV Live, indie live streaming channel RetroStrange or indie gaming website Set Side B. He collects vintage video game stuff.
Phil is available to help you make money at your job. You can contract him to do stuff. If you’d like to talk business send an email to [email protected], or hit up the Contact page.
How It’s Made
In the development and maintenance of Extra Future and his other projects, Phil uses the following software extensively:
- macOS
- Nova for editing HTML, CSS, and JS
- Final Cut Pro for video editing
- Audacity for quick audio production or recording
- Audio Hijack for recording random inputs
- Acorn for making cool graphics
- Sketch for creating vector and bitmap graphics
- Soulver for doing math of any kind
- iTerm for a slick hotkey-enabled terminal window anywhere on macOS