Taylor Edmiston

Entrepreneur, early adopter, and software engineer experienced in startups.

Photographer · Pythonista · Minimalist

My technical interests include creating product features, developing APIs, and designing backend architecture. I especially value craftsmanship, elegance, and code quality.

I enjoy going on adventures, and the travel and culture industries are exciting to me. I also appreciate projects that improve the accessibility of knowledge.

A few of my recent favorite startups are: Airbnb, Crema.co, Pinboard, VSCO, and Work Hard Anywhere.

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Latest

Pokemon Go Strategy #001: Find your gold mines The first in a series of posts about playing Pokemon Go more effectively.

Projects

Queen City Brunch

Making the world a better place through brunch discovery

Launch

Photography

My photography portfolio from home and across the world

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Sandpaper UX

A microblog about creating better app experiences

Browse

Notes

A place to accumulate knowledge from what I'm reading

Read

AeroPress

A collection of brew guides for the AeroPress coffee maker

Brew

Recent Events

PyOhio 2016 Columbus • Attendee July 2016
Lisnr Hackathon #2 Cincinnati • Participant, 3rd Place June 2016
PyCon 2016 Portland • Attendee May 2016

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OCEAN Demo Day 2016 Cincinnati • Attendee April 2016
ArtsWave Tech Hackathon Cincinnati • Mentor April 2016
Lisnr Hackathon #1 Cincinnati • Participant December 2015
Brandery Demo Day 2015 Cincinnati • Attendee October 2015
PyOhio 2015 Columbus • Attendee August 2015
AngelHack Cincinnati 2015 Cincinnati • Organizer July 2015
Startup Pow Wow #6: LISNR Cincinnati • Co-Organizer May 2015
PyCon 2015 Montreal • Attendee April 2015
HackOTR Cincinnati • Mentor March 2015
R/GA Demo Day 2015 NYC • Batchmate February 2015

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Writing & Talks

Sandpaper UX - 2 Years Reflections on running a tiny software photo blog
Snapshot: A Simple Django App I gave a talk at Revolution UC introducing Django. From the Instagram API, we built a feed to flip through new photos from people you follow.
PyCon 2016 Recap: 1000 Words and Runnin' My experience at PyCon in Portland
PyCon 2015: Are we still changing the world? My thoughts around language traction and the future of Python. It front paged Hacker News drawing 4k uniques to our blog.
LISNR and SXSW 2015 in 5 Questions An illustrated Medium post detailing the history of Lisnr and SXSW. It was well received with hundreds of views and 70+ full reads.
Pokemon Go Strategy #001: Find your gold mines The first in a series of posts about playing Pokemon Go more effectively.

Open Source

I share some projects on GitHub and smaller ideas on Gist.

I've made small corrections to docs and/or sample code in leading repos, for example, the official Instagram client for Python, the most popular Twitter client for Python, Heroku's Flask config integration, and a one-liner in Django.

I value open source and the opportunities it creates for startups today. I'd like to contribute more in the future.

Community

Hacker News 2748
Kickstarter 15 backed
Stack Overflow 936 rep / 29 badges
Tetris Battle Rank 110/110

Books

What I'm reading lately.

Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths What happens when we apply algorithmic thinking of computer science to problems in real life? Recommended by Trevor Blackwell via Y Combinator's Summer Reading List.
Food Photography by Corinna Gissemann Exactly what it sounds like (shamelessly). Focuses on ideas like framing and cropping food in unique ways and exploring lighting techniques.
Vagabonding by Rolf Potts Advice and recommendations for traveling the world. Vagabonding is like a meta travel guidebook, mostly focused on international exploration mixed with a bit of philosophy.