Hi, I'm Brian Schrader. I'm an independent software developer, writer, and musician living in San Diego, CA. This site is my little home on the internet where I go on (and on) about things that are important to me.

I own and run SkyRocket Software, my indie software company, where I make things some people like. I'm a co-founder of Adventurer's Codex, a tool for enhancing and tracking D&D games. And I'm the singer, song-writer, and guitarist of The Fourth Section.

Oh, and I wrote a book about how to be an Indie Developer!

I frequent lots of places on the Internet most of which I've included in the sidebar on the home page of this site. I read a lot, I write music, and I build things. I've open sourced a few different things, and I’ve built an HTCPCP-compliant Coffee Pot.

In the past, I worked for a research institute and I continue to hang around academia in the work I do for my company. I've worked on a few different things that have since been published and recently I've begun my own independent research projects.

Very occasionally, I write for a few local papers about topics like urbanism, climate change, and other realms of public policy.

I built this site in 2012 to teach myself programming and I've been blogging here ever since. Since then I've worked in government, medical research, and at a start-up. Technically I learned how to build planes and rockets in school, but I doubt I'd remember any of that now. 🚀

Contact Me

Shoot me an email at brian@brianschrader.com, but I might take a while to respond. You can ping me on Mastodon, though Twitter works too. You can also send WebMentions to any of my blog posts if that's more your thing.