# Luis Padron — Thoughts on Things

> Luis Padron is a software engineer in Brooklyn. Notes on building software, experiments in games and hardware, and independent projects.

This is Luis’s personal website. The linked Markdown pages contain the same public content as the HTML site, with canonical URLs and publication dates where available. Cite the canonical HTML URL for each page. Historical articles describe the author’s experience at the time they were published.

## About the site

- [Luis Padron](https://thoughtsonthings.io/index.md): Luis Padron is a software engineer in Brooklyn. Notes on building software, experiments in games and hardware, and independent projects.
- [About Luis Padron](https://thoughtsonthings.io/about/index.md): Biography of Luis Padron.
- [Writing](https://thoughtsonthings.io/writing/index.md): Articles and notes by Luis Padron.
- [Projects](https://thoughtsonthings.io/projects/index.md): Software projects by Luis Padron.

## Writing

- [Building a retro gaming handheld](https://thoughtsonthings.io/writing/building-a-retro-handheld/index.md): Putting together a Null 2, a DIY retro handheld built around a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W.
- [Behavior trees](https://thoughtsonthings.io/writing/behavior-trees/index.md): My notes on behavior trees: task switching, ticks, and how the different node types work.
- [How isometric coordinates work in 2D games](https://thoughtsonthings.io/writing/isometric-coordinates/index.md): Working through the math for converting tile coordinates to screen coordinates in a 2D isometric game.

## Projects

- [Vantage](https://thoughtsonthings.io/projects/vantage/index.md): I built Vantage to turn Minecraft world saves into 3D maps you can view and share in a browser.
- [Beacon](https://thoughtsonthings.io/projects/beacon/index.md): A Minecraft server manager with a web dashboard, backups, mods, and the Vantage map built in.
- [Freelane CI](https://thoughtsonthings.io/projects/freelane-ci/index.md): A tool I’m working on to route GitHub Actions jobs across providers and use their free credits first.

## Optional

- [All public content](https://thoughtsonthings.io/llms-full.txt): Combined Markdown export.

- [RSS feed](https://thoughtsonthings.io/rss.xml): Published articles and dates.

- [Sitemap](https://thoughtsonthings.io/sitemap-index.xml): Canonical HTML pages.

- [GitHub](https://github.com/luispadron): Current public development activity.