Jordan Last

Jordan Last is builder at Demergent Labs, full-stack software developer focused on the web, distributed systems, blockchain, security, and open source. Deep into Ethereum and DFINITY. My birth coincided with the birth of the web. We grew up together. I remember fondly one of our first encounters. I was in elementary school, and our teacher showed us a little website called Yahooligans. I was hooked...games, chat rooms, little cartoon people - it was amazing! This was a foundational experience for me. As the web and I matured, I yearned to put my own creations out there. My early attempts were very rudimentary, and the web and the internet remained a big mystery to me. How did it all work? I knew it had everything to do with software and programming, so I tried it out, but never got very far. Some time has passed since those early days, and now I'm living the dream I had as a child. I'm learning to understand the web and the internet, and to feel the joy of daily creation on one of the most powerful platforms available. I believe in the web platform. I believe it has changed the world and will continue to change the world, and that we must move the web platform to places that it's never been before. To do this, I believe in managing complexity and writing software that is elegant yet maintains low cognitive overhead, and thus can grow.