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I write software, and sometimes I write about writing software. Sometimes I write about other things, too. When I am not writing, I am most likely reading, or playing with my dog, or cooking, or doing some combination of the three.
…The paragraph above was generated by GitHub Copilot during its very early stages of testing. I am not sure how I feel about that.
In any case, I am currently a Software Engineer at BizFlow Corp. I studied computer science, although I’ll be damned if I can remember half of it. I have in the past mostly dealt with webdev, focusing on the frontend, however I am currently more focused on a generalist idea of a software engineer. I am also toying with the idea of going back and reading all my college science textbooks cover to cover - as I feel like the older I get, the more I ‘forget.’
Here is my Resume if you care about that.
Two of the things I quite enjoy are History (focusing on Mediterranean history during the Grecko-Roman -including the Byzantines- period), and self-reliance as far as the internet goes- I host a ton of services (most of the services and projects you read on the Projects page are services I have forked and customized to suit my own needs, if they’re not a complete rewrite even) on some of my servers I own, thus reducing the reliance on external services for things I can do myself.
I don’t really have a stake in the “philosophy” of the software I host or create. Computers and software to me, are tools, just like a firearm, or a knife, or a rope, or a drill. They have a purpose, and I do not care if I am using a proprietary or an open source software as long as it helps me do what I aimed to do. I will prefer open source software(even better if I can self-host it so all my devices have access to it), as I can add to it and/or modify it to my liking, but I will choose proprietary software over it if it works better by a considerable margin.