Hi, I'm Heather from Calgary AB! This is my personal website.

I make software, electronic gadgets, music, and games. I compete in (and sometimes help organize) Super Smash Bros. Melee tournaments. I like jogging, reading, and hanging out with my friends.

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MESS

(2023-2026)*


[GitHub]
The Melee Empirical Strategy Solver is a collection of research and study tools for Super Smash Bros Melee (Nintendo, 2001). The eventual goal is to develop a computational engine to determine optimal (i.e., equilibrium) and human-implementable strategies.

Wireless PhobGCC

(2022, 2025-2026)


[GitHub]
TX/RX with a custom baseband modulation aiming to achieve 1 kHz polling with sub-1ms latency. Implemented with nRF24 series chips in 2022; currently working on a revision using nRF52 SOCs.

Circuitbending

(2024-2026)*

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Wordle Variant

(2024-2026)

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Slippi Web Uploader

(2025)

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to be added: Small Network Updates

to be added: game dev

Books NOW READING: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
Gödel, Escher, Bach | Douglas Hofstadter (1979)
Gripping non-fiction dedicated to the most beautiful parts of mathematics, reasoning, and the human experience. For me, a quasi-religious text.
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges (1944)
Unforgettable, dense, and essential short stories that haunt and delight. The one that stuck with me most was "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" but any one of them could leave you completely enflamed.
Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
A book that got me back 'into' reading as an adult. Vonnegut is a sharp humourist with a highly digestible style. I think it's a good "first" Vonnegut for anybody.
Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
One passage about human carelessness left me sobbing and shuddering in public.
House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski (2000)
A deluge of clever experiments surrounding authorship and interactivity. It still manages to be subtle, touching, and wicked.
If on a winter's night a traveler | Italo Calvino (1979)
Swirling and hilarious; a short and colourful love letter to reading.
Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
Nabokov uses an audacious command of the English language to paint a hypnotizing car accident. Really funny and dark.
Video Games NOW PLAYING: Dark Souls, again!
  • Dark Souls (2011)
  • Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (1997)
  • Hollow Knight (2017); Hollow Knight: Silksong (2025)
  • Outer Wilds (2019)
  • Portal (2007) & Portal 2 (2011)
  • Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (the DS pixel art ones) (2006, 2008)
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)
  • Tunic (2022)
  • World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (2008)
    • Podcasts
  • Maintenance Phase (2020-current)
  • Reply All (2014-2022)
  • Very Bad Wizards (2012-current)
  • The Yard (2021-current)
    • Cool Articles under construction :]

    oooooo you wanna hire me so bad

    (under construction :])