Mikito Takada (mixu)

I am currently working at Trifacta.

I was previously a Node.js software engineer at Zendesk. I wrote their real-time notification infrastructure (Radar) and many other things.

Before that I was a doctoral student (Information Systems Science) at Aalto University School of Economics. I have a Masters in Cognitive Science from Helsinki University, and am proud to be a United World College graduate.

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Books I've written (freely available)

• Single page apps in depth

  Single page web apps and good practices around writing single page apps

• Mixu's Node book

  Node.js patterns and core libraries, JS gotchas, control flow and Socket.io

Code highlights github/mixu >>

• markdown-styles

  CSS stylesheets / themes for Markdown

• nwm

  A dynamic window manager for X11 written with Node.js

• view.json

  A decoupled, framework-agnostic minimal view layer (WIP)

• minilog

  Client & server-side logging with Stream API-backends and counting, timing support

• npm_lazy

  A lazy local cache for npm

• gluejs

  Build CommonJS modules for the browser via a chainable API.

• unbundle

  A set of small libraries for building web apps (WIP).

• microee

  A tiny client and server -side EventEmitter for routing events.

• nplay

  Console-based mp3 player with Winamp key bindings and jump-to-file.

• radar

  High level API and backend for writing web apps that use push messaging

• snapshot

  Serialize circular references, custom objects and other types not supported by JSON

• token

  Time-limited, HMAC-based authentication token generation

• pixiedust

  RESTful lazy chainable API generator

• vectorclock

  A simple implementation of vector clocks in Javascript.

Recent blog posts blog.mixu.net >>

npm packages I've written npmjs.org >>

• gluejs. Build CommonJS modules for the browser via a chainable API.
• miniee. An EventEmitter-like client and server side library for routing events w/regexps.
• nwm. Dynamic window manager for X11.
• pixiedust. RESTful lazy chainable API generator.
• requireincontext. Wrapper to require() js files in a custom context.

Talks

• On single page apps at HTML5Conf 2012 in SF
• On real-time at larger scale at NodeConf 2012 in Portland
• On Node and Socket.io at Zendesk at Node.js Club SF on November 30th 2011 in San Francisco
• On Node.js at Frontend.fi on May 11th 2011 in Helsinki