Welcome to the blog of Jon-Claude Simms. I am from the great city of Washington, DC and I love all things tech. These are the thoughts of a man trying to do all that he can to build on his master plan. This plan is to discuss technology, video games, Aura Studios, space, hip-hop, and any other topic that I deem worthy of speaking of. Hello, world. Jon-Claude has arrived.
March 18, 2025
‘ve been going to GDC for several years now, but this time I am going to attack it differently. I have approached this convention with a whatever will be, will be mentality, but with where we are in the world, I think I need to adapt.
March 13, 2024
As someone who has had the privilege of working with Angular since its early days with AngularJS to today’s modern Angular framework, I’ve seen firsthand how the ecosystem has evolved. Over the years, I’ve accumulated a wealth of knowledge — and, yes, a few hard-earned lessons
August 01, 2020
I’ve always been drawn to leadership. Throughout my career, I’ve actively pursued any leadership position that presented itself—even when I didn’t get them, I knew the right opportunity would eventually come along.
November 10, 2019
I have been working on this game for a few years, and as time has passed, the options to build it have grown. Unreal has changed their pricing model to make learning and building with the tool much more accessible for broke and aspiring engineers like myself.
January 24, 2017
Its been a long time coming, but 2017 has arrived and with it a lot of drama will follow. As long as I go into this year knowing that anything can happen, then I can mentally prepare for whatever. At […]
December 28, 2016
Another day, and another post on Jon-Claude.net. I have been working somewhat feverishly(well not really) on making my portfolio page something to be proud of. There is a lot more do to do, but yet again I am just building the foundation […]
December 04, 2016
It’s been a looong time coming, but Jon-Claude.net has finally gotten an upgrade. I have done some basic foundational work to give the site a more solid place to work off of. I intend to make this the official hub […]
September 02, 2014
When using complicated programs with lots of features(in my case the PHPStorm IDE), I am a fan of keeping start-up tips going for as long as possible. It may be an annoyance to have to close it out every time, […]
August 07, 2014
I found this picture courtesy of the Cassini spacecraft and NASA’s website and I just had to share. It is absolutely amazing.
July 24, 2014
Inkscape is a great free tool to use in order to manipulate SVGS, but it does have its fair share of quirks. One thing that sucked away a lot of time for me was figuring out how to make it […]