About Me

Thanks for visiting my blog! Yes, I know it's a bit unusual to keep a personal blog in <CURRENT_YEAR>. I do it because I enjoy it. I still think medium length blog entries are my favorite way of recording my thoughts, and communicating with the world. Also, I think that keeping a personal blog is a good way for me to stay up to date on web technologies. And I'm not convinced that social media platforms that prioritize visual communication through pictures and videos are really superior to good old fashioned text.

I am a programmer, musician, gardener, art collector, and reader who proudly lives and works in Silicon Valley. I completed my doctorate in 2013 at The University of California at Santa Cruz. I completed my masters in 2010 at Northern Illinois University. Currently, I work for a large bay area tech company in social media. I formerly worked in ecommerce, social media, games, education, maps, and funeral home software, if you can believe that. In the mid 2000s, I worked as a pianist and composer, and I played in a bar band in Pittsburgh called Six Feet Under Sound. From 2013-2015 I worked as a lecturer at San Jose State University in the Department of Computer Science, where I enjoyed teaching computer science fundamentals and introducing students to Java. I spend my weekends painting, playing the piano, making apps, and writing blog posts about all the things I love.

Publications

If you're looking for my books about sound synthesis in Java or Processing, you can find them here.

And here is a smattering of my other publications.

Music

If you're looking for my music, you can find it in a few places.

My algorithmic music is on evanxmerz.bandcamp.com
My work as a DJ under the pseudonym FYNIX can be found at fynixmusic.com/

Social media

I post somewhat frequently on social media. I guess that's a side effect of working in social media for a lot of my career.

My profile on Instagram: @evanxmerz
My facebook page about my garden: Evan's California Garden

My blog

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