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title="Handmade Reflections"
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mediatype="podcast"
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conference="Handmade Seattle 2023"
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[[videos]]
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title="Handmade Reflections"
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embed="https://player.vimeo.com/video/889284447?h=d0b24570f0"
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service="vimeo"
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download_link="https://vimeo.com/889284447/d0b24570f0"
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[[speakers]]
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name="Ben Visness"
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bio="""
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Head of [Handmade Network](https://handmade.network). WebAssembly engineer at Mozilla.
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image="/images/people/2023-bvisness.jpg"
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[[speakers]]
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name="Abner Coimbre"
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bio="""
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[Abner](https://abnercoimbre.com/) is the founder of Handmade Cities and sole organizer for our conferences.
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His professional story began when he left Puerto Rico for a yearlong internship at NASA. Abner was mentored on how they make software and after winning NASA’s Intern of the Year, he published an essay on their programming philosophy ([featured](https://observer.com/2017/07/a-look-into-nasa-coding-philosophy-kennedy-space-center-programming/) in the news.) He was promoted to launch control engineer.
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Abner also started the [Handmade Network](https://handmade.network), an online community learning to make quality software. He went on to work for Jonathan Blow multiple years and then Cyan Worlds to help ship the [Myst remake](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255560/Myst/).
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His concern of declining standards—both ethical and technical—pushed Abner to run tech conferences full-time, with ironclad conviction that we need independent organizers more than ever.
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"""
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image="/images/people/abner_2022.png"
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#### An in-depth convo among two good friends.
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Ben Visness, head of [Handmade Network](https://handmade.network), and Abner Coimbre, founder of [Handmade Cities](https://handmadecities.com), sit together for the first time on a multi-hour podcast.
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From unraveling the mystery of Abner’s Majora’s Mask obsession to exploring Ben’s projects and life interests, you’ll catch an entertaining glimpse into these leadership figures at Handmade.
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Get an inside look at their goals for 2024 with (at times) spicy commentary on the software world. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill discussion – it’s a spirited exchange.
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