Ethan Mateja

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Principal Software Engineer at PassiveLogic 🛠️
https://passivelogic.com
(Opinions are my own)

Disc Golf Scoundrel 🥏 🏴‍☠️

Photographer 📸

#OnThisDay in 1919, a disaster that came to be known as The Great Molasses Flood struck Boston. A survivor tells his story:

48 years ago today

No fun
Johnny Rotten the day after the Sex Pistols broke up, January 15, 1978

Photo by Michael Jang

'The Sex Pistols are dead, long live Public Image Limited'

#punk #punks #punkrock #sexpistols #johnnyrotten #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Bird in The Window

I'm very pleased with the outcome of this pigeon puddle photo taken at Barons Court London Underground station. I love that it's a multiple reflection shot, puddle and window!

Harrison Street
Thursday January 8th, 2026, 4:58 p.m.

#photography #StreetPhotography

Do I know someone who's looking for a solo (for now) lead role in an iOS-first platform project?

The previous lead dev had to leave for family reasons and FWIW was really proud of the code base, so no sloppy job to fix, but a real craft job.

Company is in founding stage, product MVP is actively being tested in closed beta and roll-out planned for this year.

They now need someone to take ownership and help ship and react to feedback.

#Firebase expertise: huge plus!

#job #jobposting #iosdev

how it started / how it's going
I want to be friends with this person who put a bucket of ice melt on a stick.

Wrote a custom C++ engine to render raw WAD geometry directly to the DAC.

Pure vector output, 1D occlusion culling, no rasterization tricks.

Running on a MOTU M4.

Rainy night in Osaka Japan.

Yasujiro Ozu is complicated for sure, but also brilliant! 📽️

http://www.criterionchannel.com/directed-by-yasujiro-ozu

Directed by Yasujiro Ozu - The Criterion Channel

Yasujiro Ozu was Japanese cinema’s great poet of everyday life, and, 120 years after his birth, he remains one of the most significant film artists who ever lived. From the late 1920s to the early ’60s, Ozu explored the rhythms and tensions of a country trying to reconcile modern and traditional ...

The Criterion Channel