Isaac Harper
A wave breaking on a sandy beach under haze
Software engineer at Monogram, living on the road in the western US.
I build software for clients at Monogram, and everything else from a tiny house I built somewhere in the western US.
Current status
- Rebuilding a 1963 Yamaha YG1T
- At work: client builds for Monogram
- Latest post: a 20Hz serverless world
Work
- 01. Roamadic. 2026
A persistent low poly world you share with whoever else is around. Three worlds, one link, no signup, running entirely on serverless functions.
- 02. Trailer Electric System. 2024
Designed and built a complete off-grid electrical system for our tiny house on wheels
- 03. 1963 Yamaha YG1T Restoration. 2024
A 1960s Yamaha YG1 brought back to life around a modern Lifan 154FMI engine, wired from scratch on a 6V system and headed for the DMV with no title in the chain.
- 04. Shulker Pocket. 2026
A scrollable off-hand tool belt for Minecraft. Sneak and scroll to rotate items through a shulker box.
Writing
- Running a 20Hz game world on serverless functions. Aug 27, 2026
My multiplayer game's whole backend runs on Vercel functions and one Redis database, no game server anywhere. How a leased 20Hz simulation survives on infrastructure that is designed to die, and what it actually costs.
- Seventeen experiments on a wall of flipping dots. Nov 8, 2025
The portfolio has a lab page now, seventeen small demos running on the same flip-dot grid as the rest of the site. Why each one costs almost nothing to add, and the one rendering lesson that shaped all of them.
- The aspens will outlive the crew. Mar 19, 2024
A season with Arizona Conservation Corps, cutting ponderosa to save an aspen grove that will not come back for thirty years. I write software now and nothing I ship works on that timescale.