About
Hello! I’m YJ Soon, from and in Singapore. Depending on the time of day, I’m a teacher, programmer, designer, person who draws chickens (phrased this way because “chicken drawer” would be a notably different activity), and/or business owner.
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Work
- Tinkertanker: The company I co-founded with my friends Akmal and Steven.
- Tinkercademy: Education branding of Tinkertanker. We teach coding and making to learners of all ages.
- Swift Accelerator: A year-long talent development programme I run for aspiring young app developers, supported by IMDA and Apple.
- Tinkerer’s Guide to the micro:bit Galaxy: A book we wrote during the pandemic.
- IC Photo was our first iOS app. Hundreds of thousands of downloads! Years and years of neglect!
- Get Hacking: Online store run by Tinker Class, a joint venture between Tinkertanker and Classroom HK.
- Tinkermind: A maker education company that Tinkertanker holds a minority stake in.
Projects
- Programming projects
- This blog, running on Astro on the Astro Paper theme.
- Bamboobot Cert Generator: Interactive NextJS app to generate certificates of achievement with text embedded in PDF.
- DF Style Linked List WordPress plugin: An old WordPress plugin for my old blog, to make “link posts” a la Daring Fireball. Haven’t touched for over a decade, sorry!
- Super, super old 3D animations my friends and I made in high school in the late 90s, using 3D Studio R4 or something: