My memory makes for a poor database.

I was looking through my resume and saw some cool things I had totally forgot about.

About a decade ago there was a game studio called United Front Games.

It was the first job I had programming full-time.

In the games industry no less!

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I don’t remember any of those things.

I believe I did those things- I’ve only ever been punished for lying or embellishing on resumes/interviews/etc.

I stick to skillfully telling the truth.

And I do remember my time there.

But, it’s going on nigh a decade since that first game-programming job.

The things that have stuck with me do not correlate with that list of accomplishments.

I Remember Horror.

I was responsible for this tool/pipeline thing that built the game and made it available for daily playtests.

It was this C# windows desktop app thing- multithreaded for some reason- that connected a Perforce subversion tool to a MySQL database.

On build, the windows app triggered an external C++ pipeline script.