about
Ever since I climbed onto my roof as a boy with a homemade telescope, I’ve been fascinated by technology and how things work. In high school, I co-founded the ‘Computer Club’ and typed my first BASIC program on an old Decwriter.
Since then, I’ve built a career making, learning, and writing about technology.
I’m especially interested in Linux and open source software, digital freedom and privacy, and giving new life to old technology. I prefer writing in plain text, and enjoy helping people understand technology and its place in the world. And when I’m not at a keyboard, I’m probably in the workshop.
I’ve also written a few books and articles, and write a blog about whatever tickles my fancy.
colophon
Remember colophons? Those short sections you sometimes find at the end of books that tell you about how the book was made? Something like:
“This book was set in Garamond type and printed on Mohawk Superfine paper by The Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont, in the year 1972”?
I love those things. So:
Everything used to make this static website is free. It’s made by hand, generated using Jekyll and the Minimal Mistakes theme.
I write everything in plain text (Markdown) using Zettlr, maintain the site with VSCodium, Firefox, and the command line, use Buttondown for mailing lists, and deploy everything with a simple bash script.
Text is set in Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, or a plain old default serif or sans-serif.