Caleb Heuer
Game Programmer at Open Source
Logan, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaleb Heuer is a game programmer with 10 years of software experience who blends a player-focused mindset with strong developer ergonomics, currently contributing to Wube Software and maintaining open-source projects for Linux and Factorio mods. He is an expert Lua scripter known for creating user-friendly Factorio mods and has even contributed API features and community-driven improvements that earned him source access to the game. Comfortable across the stack—React, Node, Rust-in-progress—and a dedicated terminal/Linux user who enhances developer tooling (notably improving syntax highlighting in the Kakoune editor), he favors clean, refactorable code and polished UX. Based in Logan, Utah, Caleb brings practical systems experience from technical support and full-stack web projects, and outside work he’s an avid gamer, anime fan, pianist, and aspiring lunar enthusiast.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Utah State UniversityCertificate, Computer Software Engineering, Certificate, Computer Software Engineering at Devmountain
Github Skills (12)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
text-editor10
kakoune10
modals9
modal-dialog9
go9
modal-windows9
cpp8
lua8
cplus8
console-application7
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
mawww/kakoune
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
mawww's experiment for a better code editor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 4 commits, 7 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Caleb primarily contributed to improving syntax highlighting for different programming languages within the Kakoune text editor. Their commits focused on enhancing the highlighting rules for Hare, Go, and Lua, ensuring correct identification and coloring of keywords, operators, functions, and other language-specific constructs. They addressed highlighting issues and added support for new language features like spread and generics operators. This work indicates a focus on improving the user experience for developers using Kakoune.
vimkakounec-plus-plusmodal-editingconsole-application
raiguard/pesticide
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:134 commits, 104 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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