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Hampton Lintorn-Catlin
Maker.
Principal Engineer @ Square.
Inventor of Sass, Haml, Wikipedia Mobile, and more.
Husband of Malrase.
Principal Engineer @ Square.
Inventor of Sass, Haml, Wikipedia Mobile, and more.
Husband of Malrase.
Things I've Made
Sass
The CSS preprocessor that changed how the world writes stylesheets.
Haml
A markup language that makes HTML beautiful, DRY, and indentation-based.
Wikipedia Mobile
One of the first mobile websites and among the first apps in both the App Store and Android Market.
Wordset
The world's first open-source, collaborative dictionary. 177k meanings and 63,936 manual edits by volunteers.
Unquilt
A relaxing color-flood puzzle game for iOS and Android. Over 2 million sessions played.
Toneweaver
Generate musically harmonious sound packs from pure math. Zero audio files, zero dependencies.
HowFamous.Is
A FaceMash-style game for ranking celebrity fame. Who's more famous?
UUIDv7
High-performance UUID v7 implementations across Java, JS, Swift, Go, Ruby, and Rust.
Veue Shutdown
A low-latency, real-time interactive live streaming service. Twitch for everyone.
Things I've Said
Maintainable
Only add complexity when necessary — reframing technical debt as investment.
Jul 2024
Rocket to the Cloud
Sass, Haml, Wikimedia, and advice for starting out in open source.
Jan 2021
Ruby on Rails Podcast
Haml sparks joy — the story behind the template language.
Jan 2021
Startup Stories
Making product developers really care about customer happiness.
Jul 2019
The Allusionist
On Wordset and the messy evolution of English in EU institutions.
Sep 2015
The Versioning Show
Sass, Haml, and inventiveness — being first, being vulnerable, and keeping it weird.
2016
CDNify Podcast
On Sass, Haml, and the move to GeneHub for whole genome sequencing.
Sep 2014
The Changelog
Speedy Sass with libsass and open-sourcing our words with Wordset.
2014
ShopTalk Show
On Sass, Haml, Wikipedia Mobile, and mobilizing the web.
May 2013