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### Backstory



- Things I understand are way less exciting than things I don't understand.

- As a kid I got a copy of RPG Maker for the original Playstation and realized I

was spending weeks (ab)using the simple logic editor in that game to build

things it was never meant to build

- My dad said "hey that sounds like computer programming maybe try that"

- Checked out some Dummies books from the library and found coding fun.

- Taught myself Linux in the same way - checking out a Red Hat 7 book from the

library with the install CDs still in the back and just screwing around with

~how you could break~ what you could do with a "free OS" taught me a ton of basic operating system

theory.

- A few years later I was compiling my own Linux kernels with my own kconfig for kicks.

- A few more years later got a BS in Software Engineering.

- Open-source is the best software development paradigm I've come across - it's

the world I grew up in and it's the world I feel most comfortable in.



### What I do for money right now



Architect, designer, and programming language polyglot most at home with an

open-source stack in a Linux/Unix/macOS environment. Have been accused by

peers of being creative, intuitive, pessimistic, and a disciplined engineer, but I would like to take this opportunity to clear my name and reject those accusations. Except maybe "pessimistic", I'll cop to that.



Go/Javascript/Terraform/Shell/Python are what I work with daily.



### What I'm doing for fun right now



- Getting past the borrow checker hump with Rust

- Getting "good at" Rust

- Shaving yaks with Emacs (using Vim keybinds)

- Failing to keep up with quantum computing theory

- Reading books on macroeconomics

- Collecting, repairing, and modifying 90's-era video game consoles

- Playing old Japanese vertically-scrolling shoot-em-ups, badly

- Pretending to be a race car driver and watching F1

- Listening to 1978-1985-era UK post-punk

- Keeping up with the burgeoning FPGA-based video game hardware emulation scene.



### Dumb thing I'm most proud of doing



- Despite having no soldering or electronics experience, I replaced all the

  capacitors in the guts of an old CRT television without electrocuting myself, and it

  worked. I now use this television to play 90's-era video game consoles.



### What I think is important



- Keeping the joy, fun and sense of play and discovery at the center of all work, personal

  or professional, and protecting the right of others to keep it there too.