Steven Hugg
Founder, Author at 8bitworkshop.com
Florida, United States
Summary
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SeniorSteven Hugg is a versatile software founder and author with 15 years of experience spanning embedded systems to consumer mobile apps and web platforms. He bootstrapped Voxilate’s HeyTell to 30M registered users, led embedded firmware and IoT work at GridPoint, and now builds 8bitworkshop, an online IDE and retro-gaming education platform while writing books on vintage consoles. A hands-on generalist, he contributes performance-focused optimizations to the cc65 C compiler for 6502 systems and combines hardware-level insight with modern product thinking. He’s launched AI-driven mobile games and once ran a successful startup from a Hyundai, reflecting uncommon resourcefulness and a knack for shipping delightful, pragmatic tools.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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amazon-web-services
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amazon-ec2
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Github Skills (20)
assembly10
c1110
c1710
code-generation10
assembler10
compiler-optimization10
650210
amazon-web-services9
sys9
amazon-ec29
embedded9
uitableview6
android6
iphone6
physics-engine6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cc65/cc65
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
cc65 - a freeware C compiler for 6502 based systems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Steven primarily focused on optimizing the cc65 C compiler. Their contributions involved implementing and refining optimizations for pointer loads and array indexing, specifically targeting 6502-based systems. They added new optimization patterns to improve code generation, fixed bugs related to these optimizations, and cleaned up existing code. These changes directly impact the efficiency and performance of code compiled with cc65.
6502c-compiler
sehugg/awesome-8bitgamedev
Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
A curated list of awesome resources for 8-bit retro game development
Contributions:28 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
game-development
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