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title: Abner Coimbre
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email: abner@handmadecities.com
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image: "/images/people/abner_2022.png"
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description: this is meta description
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social:
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- name: youtube
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icon: fa-brands fa-youtube
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link: https://youtube.com/abnercoimbre
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- name: twitch
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icon: fa-brands fa-twitch
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link: https://twitch.tv/abnercoimbre
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- name: website
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icon: fa fa-terminal
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link: https://terminal.click
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[Abner](https://abnercoimbre.com) is the founder of Handmade Cities and sole organizer for our conferences.<br>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 engineers.<br><br>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/).<br><br>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. |