Dalton Nell
President at Nomadic Developers
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDalton Nell is a C++-focused software engineer and president of Nomadic Developers with 14 years of hands-on programming experience building cross-platform, Unicode-aware applications on Linux that also run on Windows and macOS. He blends freelance and contract work—ranging from hobby game engines and small Linux utilities to a PHP/JQuery database site for the Utah Fraternal Order of Police—with open-source contributions such as integrating slop and cursor blending into the maim screenshot utility. Comfortable shipping full projects solo, he mentors and formerly managed junior developers while keeping a pragmatic, Linux-first development workflow. Driven originally by a desire to make universally enjoyable games, he aspires to work at Valve and brings a gamer’s attention to low-level detail and user experience.
14 years of coding experience
The University of UtahRegular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Copper Hills HighComputer Science, Computer Science at Salt Lake Community College
Github Skills (5)
command-line-arguments10
x1110
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
argument-parsing10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
naelstrof/maim
Sep 2013 - Dec 2022
maim (make image) takes screenshots of your desktop. It has options to take only a region, and relies on slop to query for regions. maim is supposed to be an improved scrot.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 1 review, 225 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dalton primarily focused on integrating and updating the `slop` selection tool within the `maim` screenshot utility. They implemented the integration of `slop`, including various options, and they incorporated changes to handle geometry and file paths, also updating to the most recent version of maim. They have also incorporated changes to correctly blend the system's cursor into screenshots. This work involved modifying the command line argument parsing, and underlying X11 screen grabbing.
querytakesmaimelectronimproved
naelstrof/KoboldKare
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
A public repo for the game KoboldKare
Contributions:8 reviews, 734 commits, 72 PRs in 3 years 8 months
public-repogame
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