About this site and author

After a long hiatus from keeping any sort of public blog or journal—and after a long break from operating anything at this domain—I decided in December of 2024 to get back to it. The goal is to publish something at least once a month, and if there's interest I may even enable a subscription newsletter; but in the meanwhile, you can subscribe to the RSS feed, because I'm old-school like that.

I'm a polynerd. If there's a theme to the site, it's this. I like to think about things, I like to sometimes write about what I think, and I like to nerd out about things. Often I'm an idiot, and sometimes that will show up here. But being a little dumb is how we learn and grow!

What kinds of things do I nerd out about? Lots, but often its:

  • Software development and Application Security (aka "AppSec")
    This is my profession for the past 20 years, and it's something I'm fairly passionate about. It's going to leak into my personal life a little, because why have borders on nerdiness?
  • Coffee
    Yeah, I get it, every middle-aged white hipster-lookin' dude is a coffee nerd. At least I try not to be a snob about it. But I love coffee: brewing, roasting, drinking, sharing with others. And I'm gonna gush a little. I'm not an expert, but I experiment and I learn whenever I can.
  • Electronics and microcomputing
    Arduino and ESP32 projects mostly, entirely as a hobbyist. A lot of it is making LEDs blink. I also like any kind of small-footprint, low-powered, low-cost computing environment. I run my home stack on an x64 platform the size of two decks of cards. My media system is a Raspberry Pi. If it's small or constrained in some way, I'm interested!
  • Weird cultural conceptions, misconceptions, constructs
    I like learning about language (including how it grows and changes), find broad misunderstandings fascinating (even if they're frustrating sometimes), and like social—and particularly socio-technical—systems.

By the way, I use Arch but I'm not a weirdo about it. I run Manjaro (aka "Arch without the work") and bounce between DEs on my human-facing systems. These days, that's mostly KDE Plasma and XFCE, though when I travel, I often use openbox to keep things light and easy on my battery. For embedded stuff, servers, etc. I use a variety of Linux distros. I should probably standardize, but where's the fun in that?

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I sometimes write about things where my personal interests and my employment overlap. Keep in mind that this is a personal site, and that means the opinions and views and ideas here are my own; they don't necessarily align with my employer's.