I have a bachelor's degree from UCSC in philosophy and a certificate of achievement from Coding Dojo. I'm currently learning Unreal Engine. Now available: maxjann.com
Maxjann.com was really about building everything myself, rather than using Frameworks like Bootstrap to style everything, or Django to format all the routing, I wanted to see what I could accomplish building from the ground up, just with a folder, HTML, CSS, and pure vanilla JS. I wanted what I was doing to be fully replicable, and I tried to only use code I could write from memory, that way I could look at it later and truly understand how to modify it without breaking everything.
Currently I've working with Unreal Engine 5 to build games. View Demo Here. This is a screenshot from my latest demo of a third person game. I'm also building a new First Person Shooter game with the Shock Rifle Mechanics from Unreal Tournament 2004, and I'm revising the game "I am Ghost" which I originally designed in Unity.
My pride and joy. Made with Django/Python, hosted by AWS. This app is no longer live on the internet due to issues with pythonanywhere and AWS. Now I use netlify for everything and I have video demos only of this project on maxjann.com/projects
The first thing I wanted to build after bootcamp. My own version of facebook. This app is also no longer live on the internet but has a video demo available showing how it was fully functional. Getting people to actually use it is a different beast altogether.
My first iteration of a first person shooter game I built from the ground up. I've always wanted to make a first person shooter. This game is still available to play but I'm currently remaking it in Unreal Engine for better graphics.
Someone once told me to be a software engineer I would need to start by designing apps for myself to use. So I created this Music App over the years that shuffles music I've hardcoded into the site into 2 different playlists. The idea is to try both DJs out and then pick whichever one you're in the mood for. I think it's nice to have music played for you rather than having to choose every song, but you still can control which DJ is playing, and you can pause and play or skip to their next song. I use it every single day. Try the App!