Getting a Windows Hello fingerprint reader to work on Linux
A cheap USB fingerprint reader only worked with Windows Hello. I got it working on Linux by running its maker's own matching engine, with no Wine and no rewrite.
Creative Technologist
I started in marketing and design, and for more than fifteen years that meant campaigns, websites, email and brand. Now I design and build software, from the interface down to a keyboard's device driver.
Open to creative technology roles and contract work.
Latest work
“Good design asks nothing more of people than the moment demands.”
Ectomatter
Set up your keyboard, mouse and screen in one app.
Ectolens
Screenshots and screen recordings from one key.
Contentingency
Content planning and approval for small marketing teams.
Ectoprompt
A teleprompter that follows your voice.
Expertise
I turn work that's messy, underbuilt, or hard to explain into systems people can actually use.
- Interfaces and appsWeb, desktop and Android apps, designed and built by me start to finish.
- Brand identityLogos, brand standards and the templates that keep a whole team on-brand.
- Content and campaignsEmail, social and video campaigns, from strategy to the finished piece.
- Hardware and devicesDrivers and apps that make keyboards, mice and screens work on Linux.
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“A strong designer and an equally strong digital marketer… incredibly technical, and he never stops learning.”
“Incredibly versatile and able to fill almost every need a company could have… second to no one I've come across in his field.”
“Surgical across multiple disciplines. You can trust Grant will provide a solution that meets objectives.”
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Hiring for a creative technology role, or working on something that needs to become clearer, stronger, more useful, or more real? I'd like to hear about it.