I'm Maya, a figure skating reporter and storyteller based in Latvia. I write for a variety of international sports outlets, sharing the stories behind the jumps, spins, and rivalries on the ice. You might hear me discussing the sport on podcasts like The Skating Lesson, or see me helping organize competitions such as the ISU Challenger Series. Whether through words, interviews, or events, I’m passionate about bringing figure skating to life for fans and readers alike.
Most companies try to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to visual design, but for Planetaria we needed to create a brand that would still inspire us 100 years from now when humanity has spread across our entire solar system.
When you’re building a website for a company as ambitious as Planetaria, you need to make an impression. I wanted people to visit our website and see animations that looked more realistic than reality itself.
When we released the first version of cosmOS last year, it was written in Go. Go is a wonderful programming language, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen an article on the front page of Hacker News about rewriting some important tool in Go and I see articles on there about rewriting things in Rust every single week.
