Michael Dowden

@mrdowden.com

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(he/him) Technology Leader, International Keynote Speaker, Author, Coder, Gamer. Founder @AndromedaGalactic.com, @LoreLink.com, & FlexePark. MBA, Firebase & Web GDE, Microsoft MVP. Advocate for ethics, accessibility, and human rights. mrdowden.com

Banksy's latest sculpture on Waterloo place in London. The artwork shows a suited figure, blinded by a large, blank flag, stepping off a plinth. The photo shows the sculpture in great detail against a white sky.
Photo of four vertical flags blowing in the wind. The leftmost flag is pink and white with the text "Mainz Plus" while the remaining flags are blue with white text, "JAX". The skyline has buildings up to the halfway point on the flags
Michael in a green shirt drinking a dark beverage in front of a red wall.
Michael wearing a dust respirator in a stylized, desaturated photo
DVD cover of the USA version of the movie, "The City of Lost Children"
Image from the movie The Fifth Element showing Father Vito Cornelius, Korben Dallas, and Leeloo in Korben's apartment.
Red LEGO poinsettia displayed in front of a LEGO Saturn V rocket and next to a small green Christmas dragon resting on his large red gift wrapped box.
Nachtaufnahme der Museumsinsel in Berlin mit dem Dom und dem Säulengang der Alten Nationalgalerie daneben. Die Gebäude sind beleuchtet und der Dom spiegelt sich im Wasser der Spree.
Michael drinking dark beer from a 1 liter stein
Michael in his pink Lore Link t-shirt riding up an escalator with his luggage.
Michael wearing his Lore Link uniform standing in front of the convention booth.
Michael wearing his burgundy colored Lore Link vest and flat cap, with name badge and pins.
An illustration on a glass door showing a cardinal bird wearing a scarf and hat and holding a pumpkin.
Morning sun shining off of the southwest airplane sitting at the gate.
Michael wearing burgundy color Lore Link gear, flat cap, and name tag, standing in front of Meeting Room 12.
Michael wearing a pink Lore Link T-shirt, flat cap, maroon red vest, a large name tag with he/him pronouns, and a couple large pins on the vest.
Large stone castle with exterior keep, curtain wall, and inner palace.
A short waterfall pours into a clear pool as green hills lead to green and brown mountain peaks in the background while clouds look down from above.
A large stone castle (built to 13th century plans) overlooks a bay at low tide with an arched stone bridge connecting it to the mainland.
Standing below a large castle with round towers and pointed roofs, with plenty of green vegetation over the lower walls around the structure. Michael is wearing a salmon colored shirt, dark grey hoodie, silver knotwork pendant, and a grey flat cap.
Large hillside divided by an ancient stone wall, sheep on the hillside and patches of shrubs with yellow flowers. The blue sky and ocean meet in the background with clouds floating gently overhead.
Oceanside view from the top of a cliff, showing water breaking on the rocks below, bare rocks on the cliff side and green grass on the crest.
Narrow crawling tunnel with thinly layered stones. View is out the tunnel from inside an ancient chamber toward the sunny outdoors.
Michael wearing a black t-shirt, black sunglasses, dark grey hoodie, and silver celtic medallion on a black leather cord. Behind him is a large, ancient stone worn by many years of weather. From the angle of the photo the deep blue sky is the only other item visible.
A red Telephone booth, inside the conference with a Welcome banner in the background.
Michael sitting behind a laptop and glass of golden ale at a wooden table with a window in the background.
A card stating "Michael Dowden (he/him) presents Algorithm Design for Web Developers"
A card telling people about "Michael Dowden (he/him) Presents Data Structures in TypeScript"
Michael sitting in a pub with British flags hanging over the bar
a to-go cup from FCB Coffee and a cinnamon bun
A photo of the Tower Bridge in London
Michael showing off his Next 25 conference badge with 6 skills pins and 5 collectors pins
Michael at Google Cloud Next holding a dinosaur sign reading "Erroarrr"
View of the mountain range Dents du Midi as seen from the ski slopes in the Alps. Pine trees are seen in the foreground and the sky above is gray and cloudy.
Screenshot of Steam showing the installation progress of Sid Meier's Civilization VII, downloading 3.39 of 14.01 GB with 0 of 37 achievements.
Mental Age Test: Your mental age is 24
Pencil sketch illustration depicting a large stone menhir decorated with swirl patterns stands in a grassy plain surrounded by medieval-style, thatch-roof huts. The illustration is intended to evoke a rustic village.
Cover of the book for Triangle Agency by Caleb Zane Huett & Sean Ireland. The tagline is: "Click in. Save the World." The cover is mostly white with a feminine character in a deep blue pantsuit with red tie and red high heels carrying a reddish hard briefcase.
Orange book cover with green text reading Aftermath! A role playing game set in a post-holocaust world. By Paul Hume and Robert Charrette. Fantasy Games Unlimited Inc. Cover art shows two characters with hodgepodge gear carrying weapons and walking on a pile of rubble and bodies, all against a dark green sky.
Traveller core rulebook update 2022. Shows two human-looking characters, an android, a rat-like humanoid and a demon-looking character weilding weapons with a spaceship flying overhead.
The cover to the Starfinder Second Edition Playtest Rulebook, by Jessica Catalan, Thurston Hillman, Jenny Jarzabski, Mike Kimmel, and Dustin Knight. The space background is in blues and purples, and there is a group of adventurers fighting a group of giant centipedes.
Alien The Roleplaying Game rulebook cover. It is mostly black, with a person in a bulky space suit walking towards the camera in the middle of the cover. Behind them is an Alien Xenomorph, with the segmented tail making a circular frame around the person in the space suit.
White page with black text that reads: The Final Fantasy Role Playing Game Third Edition
Star Wars Edge of the Empire Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook. Shows Star Wars and Fantasy Flight logos and the text in brown against a mostly white background. Shown in the center is the Millennium Falcon in a space battle alongside Han Solo and Chewbacca.
Firefly Role Playing Game Core Book. Shows the cast of the Firefly TV series with an earth-like planet in the top left corner and the Serenity blasting through space in the bottom right corner.
Three books display on a wood background. The rule book for Legends of the Ancient World which is a white sheet with black text decorated by a small red dragon picture, then two adventure books: The Sorcerer's Manor and Little Black Book.
Cover of the Feng Shui 2 core rulebook. It's a red cover, with various images of action movie archetypes in wedges around the title.
Cover of the Blades in the Dark core book. It's a darker cover, with a man, face half in shadow, coming at the camera with a pair of knives. His hood is pulled up over his head, and there are what appears to be burning embers off to his side, causing it to glow orange.
Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master Guide, decorated to look like an elaborate locked spell book, mostly in blues with gold metal bits and a large central gold sphere, corroded or weathered.
Hollow Earth Expedition showing two explorers dressed up like Henry and Indiana Jones, a woman in what's left of a red dress, all facing down a dinosaur while winged reptiles fly overhead.
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, cover shows heavily armed characters (dwarves, I think) charging into battle directly towards the viewer.
7th Sea cover showing two sword wielding swashbucklers fighting together, surrounded by bandits, in the middle of a town with a Spanish-architecture tower looming overhead.
Cover of Middle Earth Role Playing second edition, shows two hobbits and a ranger on a hilltop facing down two evil looking dark figures with swords.
Red cover of the D&D Basic set player's manual from 1977 showing a warrior with sword and shield fighting a red dragon. The blue expert rules handbook peeks behind this first book.
Cover of the Trigun RPG showing the text in red, a d20 system badge. The main subject is Vash wearing his signature red coat, sporting spiked yellow hair, and holding a massive revolver pointing up. His face is hidden behind his black gloves.