My name is Ivan Tam and I am a software developer with a focus toward information architecture, information design, and other bits of Web plumbing.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Resumé (HTML)
• About.me
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Flickr

Projects

• asciipr0n.net

  My blog. A cornucopia of thoughts, opinions, musings, allegations, suppositions, and more.

• 1983 Honda Nighthawk CB650SC

  My motorcycle. It's almost as old as I am.

• Other projects

README.txt

• "The Aesthetics of Failure"
• A Proposal for RESTful Location-awareness
• Hands on the G1: First Impressions
• Read more at asciipr0n.net

Bookshelf

• Practical Common Lisp

  Peter Seibel

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

  Susanna Clarke

• Even Faster Web Sites

  Steve Souders

• Metaphors We Live By

  George Lakoff

• Essential ActionScript 3.0

  Colin Moock

• Masterminds of Programming

  Federico Biancuzzi and Shane Warden (eds.)

Interests

• I'm a beginner longboarder.
• I've started sailing.
• I'm trying welding.
• I'm an amateur ludologist.

Friends

• Alana Pechon
• Amrit Bath
• Samat Jain
• Nate Agrin

Good Stuff

• VIM 7
• Slackware Linux
• Ubuntu
• Chrome Bags
• Superjail!