Welcome!

I’m Adam Sinck, a software engineer from America living in Germany. I like writing software, solving Rubik’s puzzles, reading, keyboards, and gaming. But most importantly I like hummus.

As a software engineer, I like writing tools and improving my environment. For instance, I have a suite of tools in a greasemonkey type of extension, that improves YouTube drastically - hiding end-video cards that otherwise block the video, adding a views:likes ratio, etc. I’ve also written programs for quizzing myself on various topics, shuffling the speaking order of the daily standup meetings, converting text to the NATO alphabet since my last name is impossible to spell over the phone, and for anything else where I need something that I can write.

Electronic privacy is important to me, which is one of the reasons I live in Europe now. As a software engineer, I can see the insidious spyware telemetry throughout software from “big tech”. I’m thankful for the protections in Europe, like GDPR, that give consumers the right to data privacy.

I love keyboards, and can talk all day about them. My primary keyboard is a brown-switch TKL mechanical keyboard, and my work keyboard is a 104 key with red switches. I’ve got a portable 75% keyboard that I take with me anytime I think I might want to type on my phone, which has scissor switches but the keystrokes feel good anyway.

I love learning too, and right now I’m trying to learn steno typing with Plover (on a StenoKeyboards Polyglot). It’s a journey… On qwerty I can type ~100WPM, and with my skills in stenography I can type at 20-30WPM. I can already see the potential though, and when I can type something without hesitation it flows so much more smoothly than qwerty. I’m looking forward to when I can type faster and more effortlessly than qwerty.

And for other, more casual fun, I like reading (Brandon Sanderson!) and playing games (like Satisfactory). Satisfactory is a factory building videogame, where sometimes I make beautiful architecture and clean factories; other times I make spaghetti. Let’s Game it Out is my inspiration.

On the left you can find more info about my career, and browse tutorials.