Alex Kempton is a Creative Developer based in London with 12 years of experience building engaging front-end experiences and interactive web projects. As founder of Fun With Triangles he blends design sensibility with front-end engineering to produce polished, portfolio-driven work—contact via alex@funwithtriangles.net for commissions. His background includes a hands-on role as Front End Designer/Developer at Black Diamond Digital, where he sharpened UX and implementation skills across client projects. Alex also contributes to open-source tooling and has worked on backend logic for real-time projects like a Reddit r/place automation script, including WebSocket integration, proxy handling, and image stitching. Comfortable across the stack, he favors pragmatic solutions that prioritize performance and real-time user interaction. Notably, his public portfolio and willingness to handle both creative and backend concerns make him a versatile collaborator for product-focused teams.
Script to draw an image onto r/place (https://www.reddit.com/r/place/)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 17 commits, 8 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alex primarily worked on the back-end logic of the Reddit place script. Their contributions involved implementing a mechanism to wait when all pixels were correctly placed, integrating WebSocket connections for real-time updates, and optimizing the process of retrieving and stitching canvas images. They also implemented features related to proxy usage and refreshing access tokens.
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
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