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title: "A Breakdown of My Indie Life"
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description: "Allen Webster, creator of 4coder and programmer at Epic Games, digs deep into Abner Coimbre's life as an indie organizer."
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date: 2023-04-17T05:00:00Z
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image: "/images/news/breakdown_of_an_indie_life.webp"
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categories: ["Press Release"]
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author: "Abner Coimbre"
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#### Allen Digs Into My Affairs
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[Allen Webster](https://mr4th.com/), creator of 4coder and systems programmer at RAD (now part of Epic Games), interviewed me in earnest about my life as an indie organizer—where I must confess I’ve never opened up like this before.
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Have you ever asked yourself, while attending one of our conferences:
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* What does Abner do as a full-time organizer?
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* What does it actually _look like_, day in and day out?
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* Why the obsession with being sponsor-free?
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* Aren’t there good tech companies that can help him grow the conferences even faster?
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If you’ve wondered along these lines before then this video should hopefully prove fun and enlightening. You’ll learn about my strange (but, in my view, necessary) career path that’s been a bit of a black box until now.
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#### Follow Along More Conversations
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This is the first in a series of important discussions Allen is having with industry figures. He’s zooming in on angles most us programmers tend to miss and tries to understand what people are doing in a broader sense. I think it’s a very worthwhile and interesting project! (Fun fact: the awesome visualizer you see in the video was programmed by Allen himself. [Over a weekend jam.](https://handmade.network/jam))
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Join Allen’s [newsletter](https://newsletter.mr4th.com/) to know when his next conversation gets published.
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#### Post-Interview Notes
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Nearing the end of my conversation with Allen I accidentally imply you must go through the first 25 to 30 episodes of [Handmade Hero](https://guide.handmadehero.org/) in order to attend [Handmade Boston](https://handmadecities.com/boston). **Please note you’re not actually required to go through all the episodes.** (All the power to you if you decide to though!) This is just a rule of thumb to convey the real expectations:
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1. That you’re already comfortable with the kind of programming shown in Handmade hero.
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2. Alternatively, that you’ve written some substantial application or game in a systems language like C.
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And you should be good to go.
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