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Read the manifestodylanpaulus.com
/about
Updated January 1, 2025
That's me, the one on the drums! #### About Hi, I’m Dylan. -------------- My interest in computers started when I was six years old, waking up for Christmas, ripping open a brand new Nintendo 64 gaming console, slamming in the Super Mario 64 cartridge, and seeing the red hat plumber in all his 3D glory. I knew that I wanted to do whatever made this game possible. Ever since then, I have been learning everything I can about software development. Fast-forward to today, I am a Staff Fullstack Software Engineer at AirGarage. #### Experience * Current Staff Fullstack Software Engineer @ AirGarage * 2024-2025 Staff Software Engineer @ Zeal * 2022-2024 Senior Software Engineer @ Rover.com * 2017-2022 Engineering Manager II @ Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories * 2015-2017 Web developer @ Sony PlayStation * 2014-2015 Student web developer @ Eastern Washington University #### Talks I've Given * 2022 Developing Software at SEL * 2022 Blazing Fast: An introduction to cache efficient code * 2021 NPM, Dependencies, and JS Modules * 2019 Making React Fast * 2019 Functional Programming Light (Boise Code Camp) #### Technologies I've Worked In C# Python HTML JavaScript/TypeScript CSS React Redux NextJS Remix NodeJS Webpack AstroJS Django ASPCore PostgreSQL Redis RabbitMQ Docker Kubernetes Helm Istio Tilt Azure AWS Git Jenkins Github Actions Nginx IIS React Native Expo Fastlane
That's me, the one on the drums! #### About Hi, I’m Dylan. -------------- My interest in computers started when I was six years old, waking up for Christmas, ripping open a brand new Nintendo 64 gaming console, slamming in the Super Mario 64 cartridge, and seeing the red hat plumber in all his 3D glory. I knew that I wanted to do whatever made this game possible. Ever since then, I have been learning everything I can about software development. Fast-forward to today, I am a Staff Fullstack Software Engineer at AirGarage. #### Experience * Current Staff Fullstack Software Engineer @ AirGarage * 2024-2025 Staff Software Engineer @ Zeal * 2022-2024 Senior Software Engineer @ Rover.com * 2017-2022 Engineering Manager II @ Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories * 2015-2017 Web developer @ Sony PlayStation * 2014-2015 Student web developer @ Eastern Washington University #### Talks I've Given * 2022 Developing Software at SEL * 2022 Blazing Fast: An introduction to cache efficient code * 2021 NPM, Dependencies, and JS Modules * 2019 Making React Fast * 2019 Functional Programming Light (Boise Code Camp) #### Technologies I've Worked In C# Python HTML JavaScript/TypeScript CSS React Redux NextJS Remix NodeJS Webpack AstroJS Django ASPCore PostgreSQL Redis RabbitMQ Docker Kubernetes Helm Istio Tilt Azure AWS Git Jenkins Github Actions Nginx IIS React Native Expo Fastlane
ideophone.org
/about
Updated January 1, 2025
Skip to content The Ideophone is an irregularly updated blog by Mark Dingemanse, Associate Professor in Language and Communication at Radboud University Nijmegen and PI of Elementary Particles of Conversation (2018-2023) and Futures of Language (2023-2028). I’ve been blogging since 2007. You can reach me at \`firstname.lastname@ru.nl\`. If you’d like to learn more about my work, check out my publications (for the academic point of view) or my press page (for my mission to make linguistics accessible to popular audiences). **Fun fact.** I started blogging as a fresh PhD candidate back in 2007. After a few months, my then-promotor called me into his office. He was worried I might be wasting my time and giving away my best ideas. Why was I not writing papers? I did not stop; I was having too much fun. A year later I submitted one of my posts as a commentary and it was published in _Science_. He called me into his office again and conceded that blogging was not so useless after all. Technical --------- This blog is built with open software. Like my personal site, it runs on WordPress, specifically a self-hosted WordPress Multisite installation, and it uses a customized child theme of Primer. A subset of posts has DOIs as part of a service from Rogue Scholar, which takes care of long-term archiving and consistent metadata. Some people have even been citing posts on this blog, as can be seen in this Google Scholar profile. For basic visitor statistics I use Matomo, an excellent open source alternative for Google Analytics. IP addresses are anonymized and data never leaves the server. For speed, I use Redis Object Cache and try to minimize the number of plugins I run. Copyright © 2025 The Ideophone
Skip to content The Ideophone is an irregularly updated blog by Mark Dingemanse, Associate Professor in Language and Communication at Radboud University Nijmegen and PI of Elementary Particles of Conversation (2018-2023) and Futures of Language (2023-2028). I’ve been blogging since 2007. You can reach me at \`firstname.lastname@ru.nl\`. If you’d like to learn more about my work, check out my publications (for the academic point of view) or my press page (for my mission to make linguistics accessible to popular audiences). **Fun fact.** I started blogging as a fresh PhD candidate back in 2007. After a few months, my then-promotor called me into his office. He was worried I might be wasting my time and giving away my best ideas. Why was I not writing papers? I did not stop; I was having too much fun. A year later I submitted one of my posts as a commentary and it was published in _Science_. He called me into his office again and conceded that blogging was not so useless after all. Technical --------- This blog is built with open software. Like my personal site, it runs on WordPress, specifically a self-hosted WordPress Multisite installation, and it uses a customized child theme of Primer. A subset of posts has DOIs as part of a service from Rogue Scholar, which takes care of long-term archiving and consistent metadata. Some people have even been citing posts on this blog, as can be seen in this Google Scholar profile. For basic visitor statistics I use Matomo, an excellent open source alternative for Google Analytics. IP addresses are anonymized and data never leaves the server. For speed, I use Redis Object Cache and try to minimize the number of plugins I run. Copyright © 2025 The Ideophone
imsky.co
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Updated January 1, 2025
January 2025 * * * Metadash needs more marketing and I’ve been working out a strategy to raise its profile for some time. Now is a good time to put the strategy into action and see what works. Marketing is fun, though not so simple for enterprise developer tools like Metadash. Building agents --------------- I’m integrating more AI agent technology into Metadash to help with complex cloud work. Agent tech seems promising, there are many open questions, and it’s improving rapidly. I’m excited to see where it goes in a few months. Publishing posts ---------------- In the next few weeks I’ll publish several posts I’ve been writing for a while. I’d like to publish at least one post a month to keep the habit going. (This is a now page.)
January 2025 * * * Metadash needs more marketing and I’ve been working out a strategy to raise its profile for some time. Now is a good time to put the strategy into action and see what works. Marketing is fun, though not so simple for enterprise developer tools like Metadash. Building agents --------------- I’m integrating more AI agent technology into Metadash to help with complex cloud work. Agent tech seems promising, there are many open questions, and it’s improving rapidly. I’m excited to see where it goes in a few months. Publishing posts ---------------- In the next few weeks I’ll publish several posts I’ve been writing for a while. I’d like to publish at least one post a month to keep the habit going. (This is a now page.)
jennabritton.com
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Updated January 1, 2025
**Writer. Strategist. Astrology afficionado. Recovering perfectionist.** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ And someone who believes your story has always been trying to guide you home to yourself. For as long as I can remember, I’ve looked to stories to help me understand the world — and myself. As a kid, I devoured books and kept journals I’d never let anyone read. As an adult, I became the person people came to when they needed help writing bios, dating profiles, personal statements, or explaining _what exactly they do for a living_ in a way that made sense. In a past life, I worked in public relations and digital marketing, earned a Master's degree in Education, and gave a TEDx talk on changing your internal narratives. I also spent a lot of time “achieving”, people-pleasing, and pretending I wasn’t deeply sensitive. It wasn’t until I began studying astrology and Human Design — alongside returning to my creative (rather than copy-) writing practice — that I realized I didn’t have to force-fit myself into someone else’s narrative. I could write a new one. Now, I help other people do the same. Whether you’re launching a personal brand, writing your next thought leadership piece, planning a career pivot, or simply trying to clarify what you actually want to be known for — I can help you uncover the deeper threads of your story and turn them into something authentic, intentional, and resonant. **My approach blends the spiritual with the strategic.** -------------------------------------------------------- ### _I work at the intersection of narrative, self, and spiritual knowledge, combining tools like:_ * Personal storytelling and narrative strategy * Astrology and Human Design * Mindset and identity work * Creative coaching and intuitive reflection I believe your work and your story should feel like you. Not a performance or a polished version of who you think you should be — but an expression of what you’ve lived, what you’ve learned, and what you’re here to offer. My Professional Bio ------------------- **Jenna Britton** is a writer, narrative strategist, and teacher helping creatives and thought leaders uncover and articulate their most authentic stories — so they can build purpose-driven lives, businesses, and legacies. With a background in content strategy, education, and personal development, Jenna blends intuitive tools like astrology and Human Design with storytelling and mindset work to guide clients toward deeper self-trust, visibility, and aligned action. A lifelong writer, Jenna has been publishing personal essays and advice since 2012. Her work has appeared in _Salon_, _Thought Catalog_, _Darling Magazine_, _The Everygirl_, and more. In 2016, she gave a TEDx Talk on the power of personal narrative to change your life. Today, she shares essays, interviews, and lessons on self-discovery in her weekly Substack newsletter, _And Also_.
**Writer. Strategist. Astrology afficionado. Recovering perfectionist.** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ And someone who believes your story has always been trying to guide you home to yourself. For as long as I can remember, I’ve looked to stories to help me understand the world — and myself. As a kid, I devoured books and kept journals I’d never let anyone read. As an adult, I became the person people came to when they needed help writing bios, dating profiles, personal statements, or explaining _what exactly they do for a living_ in a way that made sense. In a past life, I worked in public relations and digital marketing, earned a Master's degree in Education, and gave a TEDx talk on changing your internal narratives. I also spent a lot of time “achieving”, people-pleasing, and pretending I wasn’t deeply sensitive. It wasn’t until I began studying astrology and Human Design — alongside returning to my creative (rather than copy-) writing practice — that I realized I didn’t have to force-fit myself into someone else’s narrative. I could write a new one. Now, I help other people do the same. Whether you’re launching a personal brand, writing your next thought leadership piece, planning a career pivot, or simply trying to clarify what you actually want to be known for — I can help you uncover the deeper threads of your story and turn them into something authentic, intentional, and resonant. **My approach blends the spiritual with the strategic.** -------------------------------------------------------- ### _I work at the intersection of narrative, self, and spiritual knowledge, combining tools like:_ * Personal storytelling and narrative strategy * Astrology and Human Design * Mindset and identity work * Creative coaching and intuitive reflection I believe your work and your story should feel like you. Not a performance or a polished version of who you think you should be — but an expression of what you’ve lived, what you’ve learned, and what you’re here to offer. My Professional Bio ------------------- **Jenna Britton** is a writer, narrative strategist, and teacher helping creatives and thought leaders uncover and articulate their most authentic stories — so they can build purpose-driven lives, businesses, and legacies. With a background in content strategy, education, and personal development, Jenna blends intuitive tools like astrology and Human Design with storytelling and mindset work to guide clients toward deeper self-trust, visibility, and aligned action. A lifelong writer, Jenna has been publishing personal essays and advice since 2012. Her work has appeared in _Salon_, _Thought Catalog_, _Darling Magazine_, _The Everygirl_, and more. In 2016, she gave a TEDx Talk on the power of personal narrative to change your life. Today, she shares essays, interviews, and lessons on self-discovery in her weekly Substack newsletter, _And Also_.
jeromysonne.com
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Updated January 1, 2025
Hi, I’m Jeromy. I’m a full-time dad + husband, most of the time founder of Daypart. My home is in Austin, TX and I love it so much I hope to die here some day. I love Jesus, sauna bathing, and traveling whenever I can to the craziest places I can think of.
Hi, I’m Jeromy. I’m a full-time dad + husband, most of the time founder of Daypart. My home is in Austin, TX and I love it so much I hope to die here some day. I love Jesus, sauna bathing, and traveling whenever I can to the craziest places I can think of.
jmac.org
/now
Updated January 1, 2025
The state of my life, in an occasionally updated nutshell. (Last updated January 1, 2025.) ### Home Amy and I continue to live with our two cats in our tiny co-op apartment in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan. This has been our home since 2021, and it suits us very well. ### Work After resigning from Google in July 2024, I returned to the world of open-source projects. In the fall, I was hired to document a new Memcached feature. I enter 2025 exploring other freelance writing opportunities, and am open to salaried work in the open-source space as well. Amy continues to work at Columbia Law School as its new Head of Library Technology. In April 2024, she was elected to the board of the American Library Association's Core division. ### Ongoing projects I co-administrate Masto.NYC, a Mastodon server for residents and businesses of the New York metropolitan area. The server is legally owned by Five Borough Fedi Project, a charitable nonprofit that I co-founded in 2024. In late 2024 I launched Venthuffer, an audio zine about the Steam Deck video game console. I completed a six-episode season in December, and look forward to publishing more in 2025. You can listen to it in any podcast app, or directly on the web. I keep a personal blog at Fogknife.com, and have written hundreds of essay-length posts there over the past decade. I continue to update it occasionally. * * * _This has been Jason McIntosh's **now page**, updated once in a while. You can learn more about now pages at nownownow.com, and consider adding one to your own website, too. Thanks for stopping by._
The state of my life, in an occasionally updated nutshell. (Last updated January 1, 2025.) ### Home Amy and I continue to live with our two cats in our tiny co-op apartment in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan. This has been our home since 2021, and it suits us very well. ### Work After resigning from Google in July 2024, I returned to the world of open-source projects. In the fall, I was hired to document a new Memcached feature. I enter 2025 exploring other freelance writing opportunities, and am open to salaried work in the open-source space as well. Amy continues to work at Columbia Law School as its new Head of Library Technology. In April 2024, she was elected to the board of the American Library Association's Core division. ### Ongoing projects I co-administrate Masto.NYC, a Mastodon server for residents and businesses of the New York metropolitan area. The server is legally owned by Five Borough Fedi Project, a charitable nonprofit that I co-founded in 2024. In late 2024 I launched Venthuffer, an audio zine about the Steam Deck video game console. I completed a six-episode season in December, and look forward to publishing more in 2025. You can listen to it in any podcast app, or directly on the web. I keep a personal blog at Fogknife.com, and have written hundreds of essay-length posts there over the past decade. I continue to update it occasionally. * * * _This has been Jason McIntosh's **now page**, updated once in a while. You can learn more about now pages at nownownow.com, and consider adding one to your own website, too. Thanks for stopping by._
josephthacker.com
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Updated January 1, 2025
### Joseph Thacker (rez0) I’m a Solo Founder, Bug Bounty Hunter, and startup Advisor who specializes in application security and AI. I’ve helped Fortune 500 companies find vulnerabilities that could have cost them millions, and I’ve submitted over 1,000 vulnerabilities across Hackerone and Bugcrowd. I love helping secure the planet by building, breaking, and teaching. Email me if you are interested in **AI consulting** (implementation help/advice or AI security assesments). I’m also available for **startup advising** at high velocity startups that need a technical advisor who is well-networked, at the bleeding edge of AI and Security, passionate, involved, and has a wide range of knowledge. On a more personal level, I’m a Christian, husband, and father. I love most things in life, but I’m particularly fond of hacking, ai-art, running, podcasts, and keylime pie. whereami -------- * email: \[email protected\] * twitter/x: rez0\_\_ * linkedin: Joseph Thacker * hackerone: rez0 * bugcrowd: rez0 * email list: Thacker Thoughts (subscribe to know when I post) "As water reflects the face, so one's life reflects the heart." Proverbs 27:19 affiliations ------------ * **Ethiack**: Advisor * **SPLX**: Advisor * **Caido**: Advisor * **HackerOne**: Hacker Advisory Board Member * **Cornerstone Haiti**: Board Member
### Joseph Thacker (rez0) I’m a Solo Founder, Bug Bounty Hunter, and startup Advisor who specializes in application security and AI. I’ve helped Fortune 500 companies find vulnerabilities that could have cost them millions, and I’ve submitted over 1,000 vulnerabilities across Hackerone and Bugcrowd. I love helping secure the planet by building, breaking, and teaching. Email me if you are interested in **AI consulting** (implementation help/advice or AI security assesments). I’m also available for **startup advising** at high velocity startups that need a technical advisor who is well-networked, at the bleeding edge of AI and Security, passionate, involved, and has a wide range of knowledge. On a more personal level, I’m a Christian, husband, and father. I love most things in life, but I’m particularly fond of hacking, ai-art, running, podcasts, and keylime pie. whereami -------- * email: \[email protected\] * twitter/x: rez0\_\_ * linkedin: Joseph Thacker * hackerone: rez0 * bugcrowd: rez0 * email list: Thacker Thoughts (subscribe to know when I post) "As water reflects the face, so one's life reflects the heart." Proverbs 27:19 affiliations ------------ * **Ethiack**: Advisor * **SPLX**: Advisor * **Caido**: Advisor * **HackerOne**: Hacker Advisory Board Member * **Cornerstone Haiti**: Board Member
joshbeard.me
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Updated January 1, 2025
* About Me * About This Site * What I'm Up To Now * What I Use * Old Computers This is my now page. I’ll try to update it every few months. ███████ ██████ ███ ██ ░░██░░░██ ██░░░░██░░██ █ ░██ ░██ ░██░██ ░██ ░██ ███░██ ░██ ░██░██ ░██ ░████░████ ███ ░██░░██████ ███░ ░░░██ ░░░ ░░ ░░░░░░ ░░░ ░░░ This is what I’m doing as of January 2025: * Raising two daughters with my wife in Colorado Springs, CO. * Working on some home improvement projects. * Getting into shape after years of neglect. * Programming in Go a lot.
* About Me * About This Site * What I'm Up To Now * What I Use * Old Computers This is my now page. I’ll try to update it every few months. ███████ ██████ ███ ██ ░░██░░░██ ██░░░░██░░██ █ ░██ ░██ ░██░██ ░██ ░██ ███░██ ░██ ░██░██ ░██ ░████░████ ███ ░██░░██████ ███░ ░░░██ ░░░ ░░ ░░░░░░ ░░░ ░░░ This is what I’m doing as of January 2025: * Raising two daughters with my wife in Colorado Springs, CO. * Working on some home improvement projects. * Getting into shape after years of neglect. * Programming in Go a lot.
kaspars.net
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Updated January 1, 2025
I live in Latvia with my wife Baiba and our two kids. I’m developing online courses for experienced WordPress developers and a suite of plugins and solutions for enterprise WordPress users at WP Elevator. Earlier in the year I wrapped up a 9 year journey at XWP as a director of systems engineering. In 2019 we discovered the FIRE movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early) and are still interested into all areas of personal finances and future planning. I highly recommend the Choose Fi podcast, The Simple Path to Wealth book by J.L. Collins, and the Bogleheads community. On January 1st, 2017 I started my video blog because writing regular blog posts was no longer as exciting and took more time. The most popular episode is about adding a display to the Orange Pi Zero micro-computer. I’m a big fan of the POSSE which is why every video has a blog entry on this site and all content is available through ActivityPub on Mastadon and other networks via ActivityPub kaspars.net/@kaspars. I’m also interested in cryptography and digital identity after getting my Latvian ID card in the summer of 2015. This led me to discover Yubico, FIDO U2F, PGP and everything related to JavaCards, encryption and authentication. I contribute to the two factor authentication plugin for WordPress. Last updated on January 2025. _This page is part of the /now movement created by Derek Sivers._
I live in Latvia with my wife Baiba and our two kids. I’m developing online courses for experienced WordPress developers and a suite of plugins and solutions for enterprise WordPress users at WP Elevator. Earlier in the year I wrapped up a 9 year journey at XWP as a director of systems engineering. In 2019 we discovered the FIRE movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early) and are still interested into all areas of personal finances and future planning. I highly recommend the Choose Fi podcast, The Simple Path to Wealth book by J.L. Collins, and the Bogleheads community. On January 1st, 2017 I started my video blog because writing regular blog posts was no longer as exciting and took more time. The most popular episode is about adding a display to the Orange Pi Zero micro-computer. I’m a big fan of the POSSE which is why every video has a blog entry on this site and all content is available through ActivityPub on Mastadon and other networks via ActivityPub kaspars.net/@kaspars. I’m also interested in cryptography and digital identity after getting my Latvian ID card in the summer of 2015. This led me to discover Yubico, FIDO U2F, PGP and everything related to JavaCards, encryption and authentication. I contribute to the two factor authentication plugin for WordPress. Last updated on January 2025. _This page is part of the /now movement created by Derek Sivers._
leininger.tech
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Updated January 1, 2025
About Me -------- David Leininger --------------- I like to consider myself a professional nerd. My brain is constantly torn between creativity and logic. I love finding examples of good UI and will dev-splain how to fix bad UI to anyone within earshot. I am a Staff Software Engineer for Design Systems and Accessibility at The New York Times, where I help design and build websites and apps. When I'm not at work, I volunteer with the live streaming at church, and I help run production at several Catholic youth conferences around the country. I live in St. Louis with my amazing wife and daughter two three daughters four five kids. They are all too good for me, but slum it with me because I’m kind of funny, I have power tools, and I'm an average cook. Extra Credit: ------------- I am a diehard Blues fan, LFC fan, and recently became a St Louis City SC fan. I'm a self-proclaimed pizza sommelier, and I could spend hours talking about the merits of pizza. I believe that breakfast food is the best kind of food. I don’t drink coffee, but I love coffee shops. I eat cupcakes by turning them into sandwiches. I like good bourbon. I have a lot of tattoos. I like building things with power tools. I've been to 49 states – here's looking at you Alaska.
About Me -------- David Leininger --------------- I like to consider myself a professional nerd. My brain is constantly torn between creativity and logic. I love finding examples of good UI and will dev-splain how to fix bad UI to anyone within earshot. I am a Staff Software Engineer for Design Systems and Accessibility at The New York Times, where I help design and build websites and apps. When I'm not at work, I volunteer with the live streaming at church, and I help run production at several Catholic youth conferences around the country. I live in St. Louis with my amazing wife and daughter two three daughters four five kids. They are all too good for me, but slum it with me because I’m kind of funny, I have power tools, and I'm an average cook. Extra Credit: ------------- I am a diehard Blues fan, LFC fan, and recently became a St Louis City SC fan. I'm a self-proclaimed pizza sommelier, and I could spend hours talking about the merits of pizza. I believe that breakfast food is the best kind of food. I don’t drink coffee, but I love coffee shops. I eat cupcakes by turning them into sandwiches. I like good bourbon. I have a lot of tattoos. I like building things with power tools. I've been to 49 states – here's looking at you Alaska.
levinofearth.com
/now
Updated January 1, 2025
What am I doing now? -------------------- This is a _now_ page, meant to tell you what I'm working on now. Updates: January 2025 | May 2024 | November 2023 | May 2023 | December 2022 | October 2022 | June 2022 | June 2022 | December 2021 | October 2021 | August 2021 January 2025 ------------ Hello World! * **Gumball Poetry**: going great. A new issue of poetry and art went into the machine @ The Stacks Coffeehouse in December. **gumballpoetry.org** for more info. * **Work / Ideacog** - I'm now working for the marvelous Microcosm Publishing on their software project, WorkingLit. If you're an independent publisher and need help running your business, check it out. * **Plotopolis** - is in a bit of limbo while I try to figure out what's next for it. * Also of note: * I have a new agent! We're working on an edit of _Let There Be Lighter Fluid_, which will go out some time this year. * It's been a crash course in solar power / energy generation and other bits as we continue to iterate on our small off-grid land. * A new novel is underway... about cities and neighborhoods and hospitals and gods. May 2024 -------- Hello Spring Updates from the last six months: * **Gumball Poetry**: I launched a 'revival' version of my literary journal **Gumball Poetry** for the Raymond Carver Writing Festival - turns out, it was still fun. Afterward, a single machine will be curated at the The Stacks Coffeehouse, starting at the end of June 2024. Please visit! * **Ideacog** - I launched a small tech consulting / fractional CTO service for non-profits. Do you have a non-profit that needs assistance? Read more at ideacog.net. * **Plotopolis** - the interactive literary journal is off to a slow start, mostly for want of good submissions. I will probably extend the launch window to 'sometime this year'. I still really like this idea and the technology, but it needs to launch with a gorgeous piece. (you should totally submit a piece!) * Also of note: * Back in school: I'm currently taking a Spanish literature course that focuses on iconic latina writers at PSU. * I studied with Jennifer Clement at Under the Volcano in Mexico * I discovered the writer Alvaro Enrigue (Thanks to David Naimon!)- I highly recommend _Sudden Death_ and _You Dreamed of Empires_ * I'm still playing with ideas for PitchPost. It's a fun technology, but lacks a focused application. I'll be releasing a few updates soon, and then I'll be considering whether it merits a mobile app. * I've joined the board of a sort of anti-AI startup... Or not 'anti-AI', exactly. Let's call it 'pro-human'. more details potentially to come when I have them. November 2023 ------------- The big news: I have launched a new literary journal! Plotopolis publishes interactive fiction to chat platforms. That's a mouthful, I know. Let me break it down: * Plotopolis is literary journal that pays pro rates (8 cents/word) * for (high-quality, literary) interactive fiction: Similar to Choose your own adventure works * to chat interface: Read/play our stories on Slack, Telegram, & Facebook Messenger Learn more at Plotopolis.com, or subscribe to our newsletter In other news, my short story collection _They Had Made a Sort of Peace. Hadn't They?_ was long-listed for the Dzanc Short Story prize. That makes two lists for the year (_In The Streets of the First City_ was short-listed for the Big Moose prize from Black Lawrence Press). So... what does that mean? Keep trying, I guess. And the novel I'm calling _Let There Be Lighter Fluid_ is feature complete and out to early readers. I'm working on building a cabin on a small patch of land near the Nehalem bay. Just check out this view: Click to make big. Glory be! May 2023 -------- Well hey! It's been SIX months since I've last updated here, and a busy 6 months indeed. I've been to Mexico and back, embarked on many new adventures, and spent a good deal of time thinking about what's next. **Writing:** * This story, On the Sun-lit Side of Venus, got nominated for a Pushcart! (audio and text at link). * My novel _In the Streets of the First City_ is a finalist for the Big Moose novel prize from Black Lawrence Press! * A novel I'm currently calling _Let There Be Light-er Fluid_ is draft complete and in edits. * I've been playing with interactive fiction (mostly choose-your-own-adventure style works), and differently delivery mechanisms...more to come later. * I spent a month at Under the Volcano, with some fantastic Spanish-speaking colleagues and working under Sheree Renée Thomas **Work:** * I re-launched ideacog.net. * I've increased my role at Street Books a little, to fill the technical gaps there. **Life:** * I am taking a lot of Spanish classes... * I bought myself a packraft ;-). Pics of adventures inevitably to follow. * Pics from the last six months include: Snow camping at a fire watchtower, a street art museum in Bisbee, AZ, the narrator working from a veranda in Teptoztlán, Mexico, Steelhead Falls, the Chiricahuas, and cats. Click on any for bigger view. December 2022 ------------- News: Today is my last day at the company I founded. I laid down the first bit of code for Walker Tracker in January of 2006 after my brother gave me a pedometer. I thought it'd be fun to have a place where all of us could track steps online. People from all over the world registered, and a thriving community was born. Through 2010 I did all of the programming, accounting, sales, product development, design, writing, marketing, and everything else. When I realized the hobby site implied very interesting business-to-business market possibilities, I brought on a partner, David Mays. In 2011 we hired our first employee, Taylor Welsh. Six years later, after having run through nearly every role at the company, Taylor took over as CEO. I couldn’t imagine a better person to run a company with. We sold Walker Tracker to Terryberry in April of 2022, and December 16th, 2022 will be my last day. **What a ride!** Here are a few notes on running a startup. * We never took on funding. We never put together a board. While we did interact with many sage advisors, it was our company to run from start to finish. It was often scary. There were many sleepless nights. But in retrospect, all of it was a joy. * We promoted from within, we didn't track time off, employees stayed with us for years and years. Companies seem obsessed with hiring 'rockstars'. We hired people we wanted to work with and gave them the opportunity to flourish. We didn't spend beyond our means, hiring instead when we had the budget for it. 'Work-life' balance feels like an empty HR phrase now, but I like to think that we lived this as if we'd invented it. * With a team never larger than 16, we pioneered the virtual walking challenge (and still run the best today, IMO), bringing a new kind of wellness to companies and organizations. I remember looking through our database to find dozens of competitors emails. They all registered into our software to see what we were doing. * While we grew to do much more than just walking, walking was our wheelhouse. We encouraged and nurtured the love of it in _a ~million people_. I'm really proud of that. We got cars off the road. People's lives were permanently changed for the better. I still love walking as much as when I started, and intend to do a number of 'long walks' (multi-day journeys) now that my time is freer. * We maneuvered market crises while we watched competitors fall. We ran a company with the values we wanted. We ignored the hockey stick. We played the long game. If I could name a single factor in our success, it would be diligence. * I love the start. I'm a 'zero to one' person. I like to workshop leadership and decision-making, I like the trenches. I like to sketch out and revise and re-sketch again, everything from a business plan to a software architecture. I like iteration, to market test, to release often and occasionally break things, and I like to question every assumption. I hate micro-managing and I'm not a huge fan of the deep-process stuff that stifles innovation in larger companies. I value fellow workers that like to just 'figure it out'. * You don't hear a lot of business books using the word 'nice', but we operated that way. Taylor and I were nice to each other. We were nice to our employees. We were kind to our contractors and agencies. We applauded successes and forgave slip-ups. And all along the way, our mode of operation paid us back in kind. People were loyal to us. They wanted us to succeed. I will miss my incredible team and the work I did there, and I'm thrilled to be moving forward to see what's next. October 2022 ------------ Writing: * The story On the Sun-lit Side of Venus, was published by _Apex Magazine_. (click the link to read it now) * A few friends and I have been playing around with starting a publishing collective. * Still working away at my weird road novel. Life: June 2022 --------- Work: Here's a big thing. We sold the company that I started as a hobby in 2006 🎉 ( I'm currently employed by the acquirer). Writing: * Short story: _How We Won the Demon War_ - forthcoming from a lovely anthology called Dreams For a Broken World, out November 1st, available for pre-order now! * The story _On the Sun-lit Side of Venus_, was accepted by Apex Magazine 🎉🎉 * A few friends and I have been playing around with the idea of starting an art collective. More details to come later. * Still working away at my weird road novel. Life: * My eldest son graduates from high school this Spring. The passage of time is utter crazyness. I'm unbelieveably psyched for him and the adventures he'll have. * We keep threatening to open a 'yard bar'... a very informal, but curated, intermittent cocktail hour in our yard. I will definitely keep you posted (sign up for the newsletter below to make sure that happens). A Few Recent Photos: December 2021 ------------- Big things in the works, but no major news to report other than: Writing: * Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin - reprinted my short story _Birds_, first published in Strange Horizons. It's out now and would make a fantastic holiday gift. * I turned in a story for a new anthology being edited by Julie Day, should come out next year. * Laura Moulton's book continues to sell well! * I am still working on a new roadtrip-ish novel (word count ~45k words as of December 1. And another POV character has entered the picture... Work: Walker Tracker as CTO/Founder Until next time! October 2021 ------------ This month I'm psyched about Laura Moulton's book debuting Loaners: Making of a Street Library. We have had many conversations about this book over the years and it's a delight to see it in the world. Please check it out. My novel 'The Disappearance of James Chazky' is with my agent and being shopped. I am working on a new roadtrip-ish novel (word count ~33k words as of October 1). It's the only first-person novel I've written. It has a distinctive voice, and the work is obsessed with NW Mythology and NW stories, and the everlasting battle between _systems_, and their _parts_... I did an epic trip via tiny motorboat, from Portland, Oregon to the mouth of the Columbia river with my son and a friend, marking my 4th river trip of the year so far. These days, I'm happiest out of the city. Work: WT as CTO/Founder August 2021 ----------- The novel 'The Disappearance of James Chazky' is with my agent and being shopped. I am working on a new road novel and a few short stories. I'm participating in the awesome Poetry Postcard Festival. It's Summer, so I'm floating rivers when I can. Work: WT as CTO/Founder Learn more about now pages here.
What am I doing now? -------------------- This is a _now_ page, meant to tell you what I'm working on now. Updates: January 2025 | May 2024 | November 2023 | May 2023 | December 2022 | October 2022 | June 2022 | June 2022 | December 2021 | October 2021 | August 2021 January 2025 ------------ Hello World! * **Gumball Poetry**: going great. A new issue of poetry and art went into the machine @ The Stacks Coffeehouse in December. **gumballpoetry.org** for more info. * **Work / Ideacog** - I'm now working for the marvelous Microcosm Publishing on their software project, WorkingLit. If you're an independent publisher and need help running your business, check it out. * **Plotopolis** - is in a bit of limbo while I try to figure out what's next for it. * Also of note: * I have a new agent! We're working on an edit of _Let There Be Lighter Fluid_, which will go out some time this year. * It's been a crash course in solar power / energy generation and other bits as we continue to iterate on our small off-grid land. * A new novel is underway... about cities and neighborhoods and hospitals and gods. May 2024 -------- Hello Spring Updates from the last six months: * **Gumball Poetry**: I launched a 'revival' version of my literary journal **Gumball Poetry** for the Raymond Carver Writing Festival - turns out, it was still fun. Afterward, a single machine will be curated at the The Stacks Coffeehouse, starting at the end of June 2024. Please visit! * **Ideacog** - I launched a small tech consulting / fractional CTO service for non-profits. Do you have a non-profit that needs assistance? Read more at ideacog.net. * **Plotopolis** - the interactive literary journal is off to a slow start, mostly for want of good submissions. I will probably extend the launch window to 'sometime this year'. I still really like this idea and the technology, but it needs to launch with a gorgeous piece. (you should totally submit a piece!) * Also of note: * Back in school: I'm currently taking a Spanish literature course that focuses on iconic latina writers at PSU. * I studied with Jennifer Clement at Under the Volcano in Mexico * I discovered the writer Alvaro Enrigue (Thanks to David Naimon!)- I highly recommend _Sudden Death_ and _You Dreamed of Empires_ * I'm still playing with ideas for PitchPost. It's a fun technology, but lacks a focused application. I'll be releasing a few updates soon, and then I'll be considering whether it merits a mobile app. * I've joined the board of a sort of anti-AI startup... Or not 'anti-AI', exactly. Let's call it 'pro-human'. more details potentially to come when I have them. November 2023 ------------- The big news: I have launched a new literary journal! Plotopolis publishes interactive fiction to chat platforms. That's a mouthful, I know. Let me break it down: * Plotopolis is literary journal that pays pro rates (8 cents/word) * for (high-quality, literary) interactive fiction: Similar to Choose your own adventure works * to chat interface: Read/play our stories on Slack, Telegram, & Facebook Messenger Learn more at Plotopolis.com, or subscribe to our newsletter In other news, my short story collection _They Had Made a Sort of Peace. Hadn't They?_ was long-listed for the Dzanc Short Story prize. That makes two lists for the year (_In The Streets of the First City_ was short-listed for the Big Moose prize from Black Lawrence Press). So... what does that mean? Keep trying, I guess. And the novel I'm calling _Let There Be Lighter Fluid_ is feature complete and out to early readers. I'm working on building a cabin on a small patch of land near the Nehalem bay. Just check out this view: Click to make big. Glory be! May 2023 -------- Well hey! It's been SIX months since I've last updated here, and a busy 6 months indeed. I've been to Mexico and back, embarked on many new adventures, and spent a good deal of time thinking about what's next. **Writing:** * This story, On the Sun-lit Side of Venus, got nominated for a Pushcart! (audio and text at link). * My novel _In the Streets of the First City_ is a finalist for the Big Moose novel prize from Black Lawrence Press! * A novel I'm currently calling _Let There Be Light-er Fluid_ is draft complete and in edits. * I've been playing with interactive fiction (mostly choose-your-own-adventure style works), and differently delivery mechanisms...more to come later. * I spent a month at Under the Volcano, with some fantastic Spanish-speaking colleagues and working under Sheree Renée Thomas **Work:** * I re-launched ideacog.net. * I've increased my role at Street Books a little, to fill the technical gaps there. **Life:** * I am taking a lot of Spanish classes... * I bought myself a packraft ;-). Pics of adventures inevitably to follow. * Pics from the last six months include: Snow camping at a fire watchtower, a street art museum in Bisbee, AZ, the narrator working from a veranda in Teptoztlán, Mexico, Steelhead Falls, the Chiricahuas, and cats. Click on any for bigger view. December 2022 ------------- News: Today is my last day at the company I founded. I laid down the first bit of code for Walker Tracker in January of 2006 after my brother gave me a pedometer. I thought it'd be fun to have a place where all of us could track steps online. People from all over the world registered, and a thriving community was born. Through 2010 I did all of the programming, accounting, sales, product development, design, writing, marketing, and everything else. When I realized the hobby site implied very interesting business-to-business market possibilities, I brought on a partner, David Mays. In 2011 we hired our first employee, Taylor Welsh. Six years later, after having run through nearly every role at the company, Taylor took over as CEO. I couldn’t imagine a better person to run a company with. We sold Walker Tracker to Terryberry in April of 2022, and December 16th, 2022 will be my last day. **What a ride!** Here are a few notes on running a startup. * We never took on funding. We never put together a board. While we did interact with many sage advisors, it was our company to run from start to finish. It was often scary. There were many sleepless nights. But in retrospect, all of it was a joy. * We promoted from within, we didn't track time off, employees stayed with us for years and years. Companies seem obsessed with hiring 'rockstars'. We hired people we wanted to work with and gave them the opportunity to flourish. We didn't spend beyond our means, hiring instead when we had the budget for it. 'Work-life' balance feels like an empty HR phrase now, but I like to think that we lived this as if we'd invented it. * With a team never larger than 16, we pioneered the virtual walking challenge (and still run the best today, IMO), bringing a new kind of wellness to companies and organizations. I remember looking through our database to find dozens of competitors emails. They all registered into our software to see what we were doing. * While we grew to do much more than just walking, walking was our wheelhouse. We encouraged and nurtured the love of it in _a ~million people_. I'm really proud of that. We got cars off the road. People's lives were permanently changed for the better. I still love walking as much as when I started, and intend to do a number of 'long walks' (multi-day journeys) now that my time is freer. * We maneuvered market crises while we watched competitors fall. We ran a company with the values we wanted. We ignored the hockey stick. We played the long game. If I could name a single factor in our success, it would be diligence. * I love the start. I'm a 'zero to one' person. I like to workshop leadership and decision-making, I like the trenches. I like to sketch out and revise and re-sketch again, everything from a business plan to a software architecture. I like iteration, to market test, to release often and occasionally break things, and I like to question every assumption. I hate micro-managing and I'm not a huge fan of the deep-process stuff that stifles innovation in larger companies. I value fellow workers that like to just 'figure it out'. * You don't hear a lot of business books using the word 'nice', but we operated that way. Taylor and I were nice to each other. We were nice to our employees. We were kind to our contractors and agencies. We applauded successes and forgave slip-ups. And all along the way, our mode of operation paid us back in kind. People were loyal to us. They wanted us to succeed. I will miss my incredible team and the work I did there, and I'm thrilled to be moving forward to see what's next. October 2022 ------------ Writing: * The story On the Sun-lit Side of Venus, was published by _Apex Magazine_. (click the link to read it now) * A few friends and I have been playing around with starting a publishing collective. * Still working away at my weird road novel. Life: June 2022 --------- Work: Here's a big thing. We sold the company that I started as a hobby in 2006 🎉 ( I'm currently employed by the acquirer). Writing: * Short story: _How We Won the Demon War_ - forthcoming from a lovely anthology called Dreams For a Broken World, out November 1st, available for pre-order now! * The story _On the Sun-lit Side of Venus_, was accepted by Apex Magazine 🎉🎉 * A few friends and I have been playing around with the idea of starting an art collective. More details to come later. * Still working away at my weird road novel. Life: * My eldest son graduates from high school this Spring. The passage of time is utter crazyness. I'm unbelieveably psyched for him and the adventures he'll have. * We keep threatening to open a 'yard bar'... a very informal, but curated, intermittent cocktail hour in our yard. I will definitely keep you posted (sign up for the newsletter below to make sure that happens). A Few Recent Photos: December 2021 ------------- Big things in the works, but no major news to report other than: Writing: * Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin - reprinted my short story _Birds_, first published in Strange Horizons. It's out now and would make a fantastic holiday gift. * I turned in a story for a new anthology being edited by Julie Day, should come out next year. * Laura Moulton's book continues to sell well! * I am still working on a new roadtrip-ish novel (word count ~45k words as of December 1. And another POV character has entered the picture... Work: Walker Tracker as CTO/Founder Until next time! October 2021 ------------ This month I'm psyched about Laura Moulton's book debuting Loaners: Making of a Street Library. We have had many conversations about this book over the years and it's a delight to see it in the world. Please check it out. My novel 'The Disappearance of James Chazky' is with my agent and being shopped. I am working on a new roadtrip-ish novel (word count ~33k words as of October 1). It's the only first-person novel I've written. It has a distinctive voice, and the work is obsessed with NW Mythology and NW stories, and the everlasting battle between _systems_, and their _parts_... I did an epic trip via tiny motorboat, from Portland, Oregon to the mouth of the Columbia river with my son and a friend, marking my 4th river trip of the year so far. These days, I'm happiest out of the city. Work: WT as CTO/Founder August 2021 ----------- The novel 'The Disappearance of James Chazky' is with my agent and being shopped. I am working on a new road novel and a few short stories. I'm participating in the awesome Poetry Postcard Festival. It's Summer, so I'm floating rivers when I can. Work: WT as CTO/Founder Learn more about now pages here.
lukebennett.com.au
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Updated January 1, 2025
Hi, I’m Luke ------------ I’m a front-end web designer/developer. I’m passionate about building design systems and creating products that are both visually appealing and highly functional for all users. I work at Thinkmill — one of Australia’s leading design & development consultancies. I primarily work on the frontend and specialise in design systems. I'm a father to 7 kids: 3 of my own and 4 bonus kids that came with my amazing wife, Fern. When I’m not working, I’m usually spending time with my family. I’m passionate about the open web, design, typography, 90s alternative music, craft beer, coffee, and Tarantino movies. I own a Helvetica poster and have a sticker of a Mac Classic on my car. I also have a small collection of cutthroat and safety razors, which is a bit ironic since I have a beard and rarely shave! This website is built with the following stack: * Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework that makes it quick and easy to build maintainable UIs. * Keystatic: Content management for your codebase. * Astro: A framework that leverages islands architecture to ship less client-side JavaScript. * Vercel: Serverless hosting from the company behind Next.js. © 2025 Luke Bennett. All rights reserved.
Hi, I’m Luke ------------ I’m a front-end web designer/developer. I’m passionate about building design systems and creating products that are both visually appealing and highly functional for all users. I work at Thinkmill — one of Australia’s leading design & development consultancies. I primarily work on the frontend and specialise in design systems. I'm a father to 7 kids: 3 of my own and 4 bonus kids that came with my amazing wife, Fern. When I’m not working, I’m usually spending time with my family. I’m passionate about the open web, design, typography, 90s alternative music, craft beer, coffee, and Tarantino movies. I own a Helvetica poster and have a sticker of a Mac Classic on my car. I also have a small collection of cutthroat and safety razors, which is a bit ironic since I have a beard and rarely shave! This website is built with the following stack: * Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework that makes it quick and easy to build maintainable UIs. * Keystatic: Content management for your codebase. * Astro: A framework that leverages islands architecture to ship less client-side JavaScript. * Vercel: Serverless hosting from the company behind Next.js. © 2025 Luke Bennett. All rights reserved.
lukebennett.com.au
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Updated January 1, 2025
Hi there, I’m Luke Bennett — a developer living in beautiful Port Macquarie, on Australia’s Mid North Coast. I work at Thinkmill — one of Australia’s leading design & development consultancies. I primarily work on the frontend and specialise in design systems. I'm a father to 7 kids: 3 of my own, and 4 bonus kids that came with my amazing wife Fern. When I’m not working, I’m usually spending time with my family. I’m passionate about the open web, design, typography, 90’s alternative music, craft beer, coffee, and Tarantino movies. I own a Helvetica poster and have a sticker of a Mac Classic on my car. I also have a small collection of cutthroat and safety razors, which is a bit ironic since I have a beard and rarely shave! This website is built with the following stack: * Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework that makes it quick and easy to build maintainable UIs. * Keystatic: Content management for your codebase. * Astro: A framework that leverages islands architecture to ship less client-side JavaScript. * Vercel: Serverless hosting from the company behind Next.js. © 2025 Luke Bennett. All rights reserved.
Hi there, I’m Luke Bennett — a developer living in beautiful Port Macquarie, on Australia’s Mid North Coast. I work at Thinkmill — one of Australia’s leading design & development consultancies. I primarily work on the frontend and specialise in design systems. I'm a father to 7 kids: 3 of my own, and 4 bonus kids that came with my amazing wife Fern. When I’m not working, I’m usually spending time with my family. I’m passionate about the open web, design, typography, 90’s alternative music, craft beer, coffee, and Tarantino movies. I own a Helvetica poster and have a sticker of a Mac Classic on my car. I also have a small collection of cutthroat and safety razors, which is a bit ironic since I have a beard and rarely shave! This website is built with the following stack: * Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework that makes it quick and easy to build maintainable UIs. * Keystatic: Content management for your codebase. * Astro: A framework that leverages islands architecture to ship less client-side JavaScript. * Vercel: Serverless hosting from the company behind Next.js. © 2025 Luke Bennett. All rights reserved.
maximullaris.com
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Updated January 1, 2025
* LinkedIn * GitHub * Email Blog ---- * You might not need parameterized tests (March 2025) * One method for easier JDBC (January 2025) * Notes on 0x MySQL literals (November 2024) * Don’t use complex expressions in if conditions (August 2024) * mdbooker – turn your README.md into a documentation site (March 2024) * Experimenting with GC-less (heap-less) Java (February 2024) * Using GAWK coprocess to speed up the script 50x (February 2024) * Makesure vs Just command runners on examples (December 2023) * makesure v0.9.21 – what’s new? (October 2023) * fhtagn – a tiny CLI programs tester written in AWK (June 2023) * A story about one refactoring of the parser grammar in IntelliJ-AWK (May 2023) * Bytebeating with GAWK (April 2023) * Rewriting Spring Boot integration tests for 10x speedup (April 2023) * AWK technical notes (March 2023) * Fascination with AWK (March 2023) * Adding parameterized goals to makesure (March 2023) * makesure vs make (March 2023) * makesure – make with a human face (February 2023) * Create bilingual books yourself (February 2023) * Code Coverage for GoAWK (December 2022) * Develop a utility on GraalVM (May 2019) * Y-Combinator in Mercury (May 2011) * Implementing Brainfuck interpreter in Mercury (February 2011) * Abusing Python’s list comprehensions (December 2008)
* LinkedIn * GitHub * Email Blog ---- * You might not need parameterized tests (March 2025) * One method for easier JDBC (January 2025) * Notes on 0x MySQL literals (November 2024) * Don’t use complex expressions in if conditions (August 2024) * mdbooker – turn your README.md into a documentation site (March 2024) * Experimenting with GC-less (heap-less) Java (February 2024) * Using GAWK coprocess to speed up the script 50x (February 2024) * Makesure vs Just command runners on examples (December 2023) * makesure v0.9.21 – what’s new? (October 2023) * fhtagn – a tiny CLI programs tester written in AWK (June 2023) * A story about one refactoring of the parser grammar in IntelliJ-AWK (May 2023) * Bytebeating with GAWK (April 2023) * Rewriting Spring Boot integration tests for 10x speedup (April 2023) * AWK technical notes (March 2023) * Fascination with AWK (March 2023) * Adding parameterized goals to makesure (March 2023) * makesure vs make (March 2023) * makesure – make with a human face (February 2023) * Create bilingual books yourself (February 2023) * Code Coverage for GoAWK (December 2022) * Develop a utility on GraalVM (May 2019) * Y-Combinator in Mercury (May 2011) * Implementing Brainfuck interpreter in Mercury (February 2011) * Abusing Python’s list comprehensions (December 2008)
mearso.co.uk
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Updated January 1, 2025
About me -------- Hello I’m Kevin Mears I work as a web designer for the University of South Wales. One of my earliest memories is of doodling on waste punch cards from the days when computer programs ran on paper, I’m still amazed by technology and love drawing. I especially like to draw sketchnotes of talks, video, meeting, lectures amongst other things, and you can find lots of those on this site. You’ll also sometimes see the results of me tweaking, testing and investigating on this site, preferring to build some knowledge and have fun rather than ‘build my brand’. I featured in the seminal Zen of CSS Design book and having been designing websites for over 15 years I’m gratified to find that it still excites and delights me. Get in touch at * Twitter * Letterboxd * Instagram * LinkedIn Personal Website of Kevin Mears
About me -------- Hello I’m Kevin Mears I work as a web designer for the University of South Wales. One of my earliest memories is of doodling on waste punch cards from the days when computer programs ran on paper, I’m still amazed by technology and love drawing. I especially like to draw sketchnotes of talks, video, meeting, lectures amongst other things, and you can find lots of those on this site. You’ll also sometimes see the results of me tweaking, testing and investigating on this site, preferring to build some knowledge and have fun rather than ‘build my brand’. I featured in the seminal Zen of CSS Design book and having been designing websites for over 15 years I’m gratified to find that it still excites and delights me. Get in touch at * Twitter * Letterboxd * Instagram * LinkedIn Personal Website of Kevin Mears
niagaralauncher.app
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Updated January 1, 2025
A modern + minimalist Android home screen optimized for one-✋ access and staying focused. Learn more on Google Play Get press kit (for reviewers) Support · Blog · Twitter · Imprint · Terms · Privacy Policy © 2017-2025 Peter Huber
A modern + minimalist Android home screen optimized for one-✋ access and staying focused. Learn more on Google Play Get press kit (for reviewers) Support · Blog · Twitter · Imprint · Terms · Privacy Policy © 2017-2025 Peter Huber
niagaralauncher.com
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Updated January 1, 2025
A modern + minimalist Android home screen optimized for one-✋ access and staying focused. Learn more on Google Play Get press kit (for reviewers) Support · Blog · Twitter · Imprint · Terms · Privacy Policy © 2017-2025 Peter Huber
A modern + minimalist Android home screen optimized for one-✋ access and staying focused. Learn more on Google Play Get press kit (for reviewers) Support · Blog · Twitter · Imprint · Terms · Privacy Policy © 2017-2025 Peter Huber
oneforthecode.com
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Updated January 1, 2025
I’m a developer with a passion for building websites, apps, and scalable systems. When I’m not coding, you can find me on the mats practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, playing guitar, or hanging out with my family. ### 🔭 What I'm Up To * Check out my Now page to see what I’m currently working on. Feel free to shoot me an email at \[email protected\].
I’m a developer with a passion for building websites, apps, and scalable systems. When I’m not coding, you can find me on the mats practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, playing guitar, or hanging out with my family. ### 🔭 What I'm Up To * Check out my Now page to see what I’m currently working on. Feel free to shoot me an email at \[email protected\].
optimiced.com
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Updated January 1, 2025
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_ ---------------------- optimiced.com is the virtual home of Michel Bozgounov. Made with coffee and love. * Blog * блог * \[S.M.\] * \[twitter\] * \[dribbble\] * \[500px\] ©2006-2025 optimiced.com | hosted by DreamHostperezbox.com
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Updated January 1, 2025
As a senior-level technology and cybersecurity executive, I bring over two decades of experience in leading and managing innovative startups, established businesses, and complex security portfolios. I have a proven track record of founding and scaling successful businesses, driving strategic vision, and delivering significant financial growth. I excel in managing large, diverse teams across multiple countries, advising on cybersecurity investments, and providing executive leadership to high-profile organizations. My key professional skills encompass operational management, product development, market strategy, and strategic partnerships. Today, I am the Founder of CleanBrowsing, a DNS-based content filtering service, NOC, which provides speed and security for websites, and Trunc, a log management platform. These ventures reflect my commitment to advancing technology and making cybersecurity solutions accessible. Academically, I hold both undergraduate and graduate degrees in technology management and a graduate certificate in Information Security. These programs helped build my foundation in the principles of technology, business and security, enabling me to develop the strategic and operational skills necessary for leading high-tech ventures. My education has been asset in shaping my approach to building and managing technology startups, as well as in driving innovation and efficiency within my organizations. In my spare time, I engage in various hobbies, including Olympic Weightlifting, Crossfit, and Ranching. These activities help keep me physically and mentally active, while contributing to my overall well-being and creativity.
As a senior-level technology and cybersecurity executive, I bring over two decades of experience in leading and managing innovative startups, established businesses, and complex security portfolios. I have a proven track record of founding and scaling successful businesses, driving strategic vision, and delivering significant financial growth. I excel in managing large, diverse teams across multiple countries, advising on cybersecurity investments, and providing executive leadership to high-profile organizations. My key professional skills encompass operational management, product development, market strategy, and strategic partnerships. Today, I am the Founder of CleanBrowsing, a DNS-based content filtering service, NOC, which provides speed and security for websites, and Trunc, a log management platform. These ventures reflect my commitment to advancing technology and making cybersecurity solutions accessible. Academically, I hold both undergraduate and graduate degrees in technology management and a graduate certificate in Information Security. These programs helped build my foundation in the principles of technology, business and security, enabling me to develop the strategic and operational skills necessary for leading high-tech ventures. My education has been asset in shaping my approach to building and managing technology startups, as well as in driving innovation and efficiency within my organizations. In my spare time, I engage in various hobbies, including Olympic Weightlifting, Crossfit, and Ranching. These activities help keep me physically and mentally active, while contributing to my overall well-being and creativity.
reyammer.io
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Updated January 1, 2025
I am **Yanick Fratantonio** (aka @reyammer), a Senior Research Scientist at Google. Before this position, I have been an Assistant Professor at EURECOM, and a Senior Security Researcher at Cisco Talos. (Why did I leave academia? I wrote a long post about it.) My research focuses on **systems security and privacy**, and it covers a wide range of aspects, such as mobile security, reverse engineering, malware analysis, binary analysis, and web security. My research has highlighted systemic flaws in many aspects of mobile devices and developed program analysis techniques to analyze Android, Windows, and Linux malware. More recently, I have been working on security and deep learning. I'm the tech lead for **Magika**, an AI-powered file type detection tool. Magika is designed to be working at scale, fast even on a single CPU. Magika is available on GitHub , and it is fast and accurate enough to be used in critical production pipelines at Google, among other things, to scan Gmail, Drive, and Safe Browsing files. ### Contact Information ### Research These days I work on security and deep learning, and I'm interested in research that is robust enough to go beyond academic prototypes. One my recent projects is Magika, an approach to detect a file's content type via a highly specialized deep learning model: Magika outperforms existing solutions, it is fast and accurate enough to be used in a number of critical production pipelines at Google (including Gmail, Drive, and Safe Browsing, scanning hundreds billions of samples every week), adopted by popular online services (e.g., VirusTotal, abuse.ch), and integrated with popular open source projects (e.g., Apache Tika, Microsoft's markitdown). Magika's python package has been already installed millions of times. Check out the Magika's GitHub repo and the associated ICSE'25 paper for more information. My prior research has highlighted systemic flaws in many aspects of mobile devices, including Graphic User Interfaces (GUI deception, a11y attacks, phishing against password managers, and clickjacking), bootloaders, hardware memory modules, cryptography, dynamic code loading, authentication, and fingerprint API. I also worked on the detection and analysis of malicious logic bombs, native code components, Windows shellcode, and more recently Linux malware. Last, I research about privacy aspects, such as data leaks and emerging ultrasound-based cross-device tracking mechanisms. ### Teaching When I was teaching at EURECOM, I have created a new class on Mobile Security (MOBISEC), first taught in Fall 2018. This was designed to be an hands-on course, and it covers topics such as the mobile ecosystem, the design and architecture of mobile operating systems, application analysis, reverse engineering, malware detection, vulnerability assessment, automatic static and dynamic analysis, and exploitation and mitigation techniques. All the material/slides/recordings are available at mobisec.reyammer.io, and all the wargame-like challenges (featuring an APK analysis system!) are available at challs.reyammer.io. ### Hacking I am a big fan of Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions and wargames — that is how I and many friends got into security. I'm a founding member of the Order Of the Overflow (OOO) team, the current now-retired DEF CON CTF organizers. I am also a core member of the Shellphish hacking team with which I played many competitions and organized many editions of the UCSB iCTF. I was also involved with the NOPS team, the EURECOM's hacking team, acting as their hackademic advisor. ### Professional Highlights * My work has appeared and I have been a speaker in many major security & privacy (IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ACM CCS, NDSS, PETS, Black Hat) and software engineering (ICSE, FSE) venues. * Magika started as a research prototype, but it found adoption in Google-scale critical production pipelines, and it is now a popular open source project with millions of installations. * I'm serving as the PC Chair for RAID 2025 and I have served as PC Co-chair for RAID 2024. * I have served as PC Co-chair of WOOT 2023. * Our work "Cloak & Dagger" on Android UI attacks won the Distinguished Practical Paper Award at IEEE S&P 2017. * Our work "Drammer" on rowhammer attacks on mobile devices won the Pwnie Award for Best Privilege Escalation Bug 2017 and the CSAW Applied Research Best Paper Award 2017. * I have received the "2015 Outstanding Student Award" from the Computer Science deptartment at UC Santa Barbara. * My research has been covered by many international press venues, such as SlashDot, WIRED, Ars Technica, etc. See press coverage. * I am part of Shellphish, NOPS, and OOO, the now-retired DEF CON CTF organizers.
I am **Yanick Fratantonio** (aka @reyammer), a Senior Research Scientist at Google. Before this position, I have been an Assistant Professor at EURECOM, and a Senior Security Researcher at Cisco Talos. (Why did I leave academia? I wrote a long post about it.) My research focuses on **systems security and privacy**, and it covers a wide range of aspects, such as mobile security, reverse engineering, malware analysis, binary analysis, and web security. My research has highlighted systemic flaws in many aspects of mobile devices and developed program analysis techniques to analyze Android, Windows, and Linux malware. More recently, I have been working on security and deep learning. I'm the tech lead for **Magika**, an AI-powered file type detection tool. Magika is designed to be working at scale, fast even on a single CPU. Magika is available on GitHub , and it is fast and accurate enough to be used in critical production pipelines at Google, among other things, to scan Gmail, Drive, and Safe Browsing files. ### Contact Information ### Research These days I work on security and deep learning, and I'm interested in research that is robust enough to go beyond academic prototypes. One my recent projects is Magika, an approach to detect a file's content type via a highly specialized deep learning model: Magika outperforms existing solutions, it is fast and accurate enough to be used in a number of critical production pipelines at Google (including Gmail, Drive, and Safe Browsing, scanning hundreds billions of samples every week), adopted by popular online services (e.g., VirusTotal, abuse.ch), and integrated with popular open source projects (e.g., Apache Tika, Microsoft's markitdown). Magika's python package has been already installed millions of times. Check out the Magika's GitHub repo and the associated ICSE'25 paper for more information. My prior research has highlighted systemic flaws in many aspects of mobile devices, including Graphic User Interfaces (GUI deception, a11y attacks, phishing against password managers, and clickjacking), bootloaders, hardware memory modules, cryptography, dynamic code loading, authentication, and fingerprint API. I also worked on the detection and analysis of malicious logic bombs, native code components, Windows shellcode, and more recently Linux malware. Last, I research about privacy aspects, such as data leaks and emerging ultrasound-based cross-device tracking mechanisms. ### Teaching When I was teaching at EURECOM, I have created a new class on Mobile Security (MOBISEC), first taught in Fall 2018. This was designed to be an hands-on course, and it covers topics such as the mobile ecosystem, the design and architecture of mobile operating systems, application analysis, reverse engineering, malware detection, vulnerability assessment, automatic static and dynamic analysis, and exploitation and mitigation techniques. All the material/slides/recordings are available at mobisec.reyammer.io, and all the wargame-like challenges (featuring an APK analysis system!) are available at challs.reyammer.io. ### Hacking I am a big fan of Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions and wargames — that is how I and many friends got into security. I'm a founding member of the Order Of the Overflow (OOO) team, the current now-retired DEF CON CTF organizers. I am also a core member of the Shellphish hacking team with which I played many competitions and organized many editions of the UCSB iCTF. I was also involved with the NOPS team, the EURECOM's hacking team, acting as their hackademic advisor. ### Professional Highlights * My work has appeared and I have been a speaker in many major security & privacy (IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ACM CCS, NDSS, PETS, Black Hat) and software engineering (ICSE, FSE) venues. * Magika started as a research prototype, but it found adoption in Google-scale critical production pipelines, and it is now a popular open source project with millions of installations. * I'm serving as the PC Chair for RAID 2025 and I have served as PC Co-chair for RAID 2024. * I have served as PC Co-chair of WOOT 2023. * Our work "Cloak & Dagger" on Android UI attacks won the Distinguished Practical Paper Award at IEEE S&P 2017. * Our work "Drammer" on rowhammer attacks on mobile devices won the Pwnie Award for Best Privilege Escalation Bug 2017 and the CSAW Applied Research Best Paper Award 2017. * I have received the "2015 Outstanding Student Award" from the Computer Science deptartment at UC Santa Barbara. * My research has been covered by many international press venues, such as SlashDot, WIRED, Ars Technica, etc. See press coverage. * I am part of Shellphish, NOPS, and OOO, the now-retired DEF CON CTF organizers.
richardlucas.com
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Updated January 1, 2025
(updated January 2025) I'm a business and social entrepreneur with over 650 employees in technology companies in Europe and the USA. My activities centre around **entrepreneurship**, **leading pro entrepreneurship communities**, **projects fighting social isolation and loneliness**, **alumni activation, event hosting**, and public speaking about leadership and entrepreneurship. My modus vivendi is to get things up and running, then hand over to others. ** Entrepreneurship** My businesses are listed on my Linkedin profile – with all of those businesses having clients, staff, management, revenue and sometimes profits. I’ve done nothing that people will have heard of, but some of the businesses – like Argos Multilingual – are among the best companies in the world in their sector, others like Zalamo and ISL are market leaders in their niches, and others like Unicard and SKK Global are very strong in some of the markets they are active in. PMR has a powerful brand in Poland. I have been on the management board of some of these businesses, CEO of two of them, and am on the Supervisory Board of three. If you want to do business with them and the idea makes sense I can help make introductions but I am not the ultimate decision maker, so don’t think that persuading me will be enough. ### Angel Investing I was angel investing before I knew that this term existed. Some of my investments are regarded as successful even though they have never paid me a dividend, salary, consulting fee or made a profit. I exited Targeted Provision, Crowdcube, Everuptive (formerly Notatek.pl), Untitled Kingdom, Racing Life, Lovekrakow.pl Syndicate Room and Vantage Power. I made many more investments that never made it. I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time, to have the risk tolerance to trust in my instincts even though I was often wrong.For 15 years I was very active in the world of TED.com and TEDx. I organised over 30 TEDx events. I teach entrepreneurship and run workshops in universities, business schools, schools and at community events. I don’t have any need/desire for “work/life balance”. I like being productive and doing things that matter to me and hopefully other people. Some projects I lead or support/(ed) include Open Coffee Lisbon, Lisbon Newcomers Welcome Club, CAMentrepreneurs, Village in the City, Open Coffee Krakow, Krakow Enterprise Mondays and the Wojtek the Soldier Bear project - which I have written about here. I’m particularly interested in changing the way that schools and universities interact with their alumni with respect to the support of entrepreneurship. I have been a Couchsurfer and still occasionally host and stay with people. Although my formal commitment to TED and TEDx ended in 2021, I remain in close contact with and continue to support TEDxKazimierz, which I founded and led until January 2021. I hosted TED Circles while TED supported this innovative form of discussion group based on TED content. and you can find my TED.com profile here. ### Podcasting The New Books Network has grown to be almost certainly the largest non-fiction author interview podcast in the world, with over 140,000 downloads a day (data from December 2021). The NBN Entrepreneurship and Leadership podcast which I founded with my business partner and friend Kimon Fountoukidis is a small part of a much bigger picture. I can and do share advice for people looking for investors in my most popular blog post **_Questions from a potential investor, mentor or partner_** and what not to do! If you are ambitious, want to have a great life but don’t know what to do, watch my TEDxTarnow talk on “ Opportunity Readiness”. _If you want to meet me to talk about your business idea, please read this_ _first__._ ### **Public speaking, hosting and event improvement consulting** If you want me to help with, host or speak at your event, take a look at "Will you attend/speak at/sponsor my event ?. I wrote it in a bad mood when the event I was speaking at started late. The ten thousand hours I have spent preparing speakers for the TEDxKazimierz stage, hosting, and organising events have had a noticeable impact on me. I don’t accept badly organised events. I have experience in making events much better than normal - if the organisers are interested. My own speaking and hosting skills have improved in recent years - I’m good now and always aim to get better. ### Let’s have a coffee My Linkedin and Twitter profiles can be found below - or you can get in touch via the contact page. I am open to new ideas - assuming you come to me with the right expectations.
(updated January 2025) I'm a business and social entrepreneur with over 650 employees in technology companies in Europe and the USA. My activities centre around **entrepreneurship**, **leading pro entrepreneurship communities**, **projects fighting social isolation and loneliness**, **alumni activation, event hosting**, and public speaking about leadership and entrepreneurship. My modus vivendi is to get things up and running, then hand over to others. ** Entrepreneurship** My businesses are listed on my Linkedin profile – with all of those businesses having clients, staff, management, revenue and sometimes profits. I’ve done nothing that people will have heard of, but some of the businesses – like Argos Multilingual – are among the best companies in the world in their sector, others like Zalamo and ISL are market leaders in their niches, and others like Unicard and SKK Global are very strong in some of the markets they are active in. PMR has a powerful brand in Poland. I have been on the management board of some of these businesses, CEO of two of them, and am on the Supervisory Board of three. If you want to do business with them and the idea makes sense I can help make introductions but I am not the ultimate decision maker, so don’t think that persuading me will be enough. ### Angel Investing I was angel investing before I knew that this term existed. Some of my investments are regarded as successful even though they have never paid me a dividend, salary, consulting fee or made a profit. I exited Targeted Provision, Crowdcube, Everuptive (formerly Notatek.pl), Untitled Kingdom, Racing Life, Lovekrakow.pl Syndicate Room and Vantage Power. I made many more investments that never made it. I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time, to have the risk tolerance to trust in my instincts even though I was often wrong.For 15 years I was very active in the world of TED.com and TEDx. I organised over 30 TEDx events. I teach entrepreneurship and run workshops in universities, business schools, schools and at community events. I don’t have any need/desire for “work/life balance”. I like being productive and doing things that matter to me and hopefully other people. Some projects I lead or support/(ed) include Open Coffee Lisbon, Lisbon Newcomers Welcome Club, CAMentrepreneurs, Village in the City, Open Coffee Krakow, Krakow Enterprise Mondays and the Wojtek the Soldier Bear project - which I have written about here. I’m particularly interested in changing the way that schools and universities interact with their alumni with respect to the support of entrepreneurship. I have been a Couchsurfer and still occasionally host and stay with people. Although my formal commitment to TED and TEDx ended in 2021, I remain in close contact with and continue to support TEDxKazimierz, which I founded and led until January 2021. I hosted TED Circles while TED supported this innovative form of discussion group based on TED content. and you can find my TED.com profile here. ### Podcasting The New Books Network has grown to be almost certainly the largest non-fiction author interview podcast in the world, with over 140,000 downloads a day (data from December 2021). The NBN Entrepreneurship and Leadership podcast which I founded with my business partner and friend Kimon Fountoukidis is a small part of a much bigger picture. I can and do share advice for people looking for investors in my most popular blog post **_Questions from a potential investor, mentor or partner_** and what not to do! If you are ambitious, want to have a great life but don’t know what to do, watch my TEDxTarnow talk on “ Opportunity Readiness”. _If you want to meet me to talk about your business idea, please read this_ _first__._ ### **Public speaking, hosting and event improvement consulting** If you want me to help with, host or speak at your event, take a look at "Will you attend/speak at/sponsor my event ?. I wrote it in a bad mood when the event I was speaking at started late. The ten thousand hours I have spent preparing speakers for the TEDxKazimierz stage, hosting, and organising events have had a noticeable impact on me. I don’t accept badly organised events. I have experience in making events much better than normal - if the organisers are interested. My own speaking and hosting skills have improved in recent years - I’m good now and always aim to get better. ### Let’s have a coffee My Linkedin and Twitter profiles can be found below - or you can get in touch via the contact page. I am open to new ideas - assuming you come to me with the right expectations.
rihards.com
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Updated January 1, 2025
* Living in Kerava, Finland * Working as a Principal Tech Lead at Exove. * (Trying to) catch up with my to read list, currently reading the Witcher book series. * Listening to podcasts, some favourites: 99% Invisible, Our Fake History, Planet Money, Oh God, What Now, The Bunker, The Bugle, All Points North, Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. * Interested in reading more about leadership, organizations and work culture. This page was inspired by the NowNowNow project. To find out more about it check the about page.
* Living in Kerava, Finland * Working as a Principal Tech Lead at Exove. * (Trying to) catch up with my to read list, currently reading the Witcher book series. * Listening to podcasts, some favourites: 99% Invisible, Our Fake History, Planet Money, Oh God, What Now, The Bunker, The Bugle, All Points North, Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. * Interested in reading more about leadership, organizations and work culture. This page was inspired by the NowNowNow project. To find out more about it check the about page.
satish.com.in
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Updated January 1, 2025
Hi there ! ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ, నమస్కారం, नमस्ते ! My name is Satish B. Setty, a Bharatiya born in the mercantile Arya Vaishya community. I’m an ordinary tax-paying citizen and a double Masters’ graduate (M.Tech and MBA) by education and profession for the past 20+ years. As an inclusive meritocrat, I associate with people based on their intrinsic merit and skills, irrespective of their identity markers (gender, skin colour, socio-economic class etc.). My interests lie in historical Hinduism, spirituality, Indology, mathematics and linguistics apart from software engineering and business management. Comments and opinions on my articles are welcome. You can submit them to Reddit and tag me the discussion or mail them to me directly: satish.com.in ‹@› mаіl (click on it). Tech and Things --------------- I’ve been using Debian Testing as my desktop daily driver since Etch - from i3 window manager to heavyweights like KDE. Right now, MATE desktop strikes a good balance. VS-Code is a memory hog and unavailable in the terminal. Neovim is not neo enough. And so Emacs it is. Parentheses all the way! I like C, Python and Lisp, but have dabbled with various languages from time to time (C++, Java, Rust, Nim, Zig, Fortran 2k8, Haskell, etc.). This blog is composed in extended Markdown from which Python scripts crunch out HTML. I’m proficient in Kannada and Telugu. Know enough Sanskrit to delight in simple verses from the Ramayana. Can manage broken Hindi. > People: HH Chinnajeeyar Swami, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Richard Stallman, M.K.Gandhi > Books: Mahabharata (Bhagavad Gita), Malgudi Days, The Design of Everyday Things > Music: Ambient, Downtempo, Carnatic instrumental, old Kannada songs > Movies: any good sci-fi > Hobbies: cycling, running > Map projections: Kavrayskiy VII > Winkel Tripel > Robinson > Wagner VI Value System ------------ I do not qualify for any Reservation or Quota, for, the Indian Consitution has permanently boxed me in the ‘General’ category based on my birth alone and it can’t be changed (state-sponsored hereditary segregationism). Hence, I had to work extra hard, relying on my merit alone, to accomplish what I am today. I usually don’t care so much about Hindu religiosity, but do like to live by the principles of Dharma, Ahimsa and Vegetarianism. I’m inclined towards Vaishnava philosophy and occasionally do meditation. My contemplations are on a separate page. As is normal, the older I get the more I’m inquisitive about my roots and heritage. I believe in leading a value-based life where every activity is done with _real_ knowledge of _sharing_. There are five levels of realisation: bodily, familial, societal, environmental and Spiritual. One level should not contradict the other. And one’s work need not be different for different levels. With one action, everything should be attained. In my teenage, I was fortunate to read Swami Prabhupāda’s _Bhagavad Gita As It Is_. It shaped my worldview at a nascent age. However, these days I’m enthusiastic about Sri Vaishnavism of Ramanujacharya, thanks to the teachings of Sri Tridandi Chinnajeeyar Swamiji. His message of spiritual, social and gender equality, anti-discrimination, inclusiveness and _sēvā_ attitude (_kaiṅkarya_) resonates in my heart. > Serve all beings as service to God. Not just service to humans, but pujya jeeyar swamiji emphasises the Vedic principle of service to _all_ beings, living and non-living, i.e., animals, plants and environment included. > Worship your own, respect all. In other words, acknowledge your identity but don’t discriminate against others just based on their identity. Mutual respect (not one-sided “tolerance”) is necessary. As long as one identifies oneself with the bodily attributes (gender, race, ethnicity, caste, etc.), self-realisation is not possible. The essential position of a _jīva_ (living entity) is that of His servitor. As a monolatrous, panentheist realist, this universe is not illusory but a real manifestation of the body of Lord Viṣṇu, who is both transcendent and immanent in it. Can you “see” God? Bhagavad Ramanuja says, yes – the whole world around you is the body of God because He is the indwelling soul (_antaryāmi_) of all creation. Equality is not possible until you focus on the inner spirit self in every living entity. Ideas of equality based on bodily identities (gender equality, caste equality, animal rights, etc.) fail to realise this concept. Other influential teachers have been Sri Aurobindo, Prof. Dr. K.S.Narayanacharya of Karnataka, Swami Dr. Raghavacharya Maharaj of Ayodhya Ramlala Sadan, Swami Rajendra Das Maharaj of Malook Peeth and Sri Hita Premanand Maharaj of Vrindavan. ### Practice You only need to practise few qualities for a fulfilling life: > ahiṃsā-satyā’stēya-brahmacaryā’parigrahā yamāḥ //Yōga-sutra 2.30// Non-injury (_ahiṃsā_), truth, non-stealing, continence, non-possessiveness. > ṡauca-santōṣa-tapaḥ-svādhyāyēṡvarapraṇidhānāni niyamāḥ //Yōga-sutras 2.32// Purity, contentment, austerity, self-study and worship of Īṡvara. > maitrī-karuṇā-muditōpekṣā iti catasraḥ bhāvanāḥ citta-prasādakarāḥ //Sāṅkhya-sutra-bhāṣya 20// Maitrī, karuṇā, muditā and upēkṣā are the four favourite meditations for purifying the thoughts. Maitrī is friendliness towards all who are happy (even to one’s enemies). Karuṇā is compassion towards all who are in distress. Muditā is goodwill towards all persons who are virtuous (even if they are one’s antagonists or of a different persuasion). Upēkṣā is indifference towards the sinful, i.e., not minding the frailties of others. > tasya vācakaḥ praṇavaḥ //Yōga-sutras 1.27// Let us pray to the omniscient, omnipotent and merciful Īṡvara verbally expressed by _praṇava_ (Ōṃ). ### Political views Pursuit of wealth (_artha_) is one of the four pillars of Hinduism, especially when it is used for the collective good. Generally speaking, the implementation of a market economy brings prosperity to its people. But capitalism is not the only form of market economy! * Free markets are too free to abuse workers. * Laissez-faire are too invisible with their hands plundering the environment. * Socialists are too devious – “All the rich are crooks (trust me bro), except myself.” * Liberals are so liberal that they wage wars against nations to donate democracy. * Progressives are so scientific until it negates their snowflake beliefs. * Communists are so equal and united in watching poverty porn together. * Secularists are so secular that Islam is the unsaid state religion. Anyways. A social market economy with emphasis on sustainable ecology is the need of the hour. You can read more about my views here and here. ### Disclaimer Website content is copyrighted © Satish B. Setty and distributed under CC BY-SA International License, with attribution via backlink to the page you took content from, including its title and license notice. **All views expressed on this website are my own and do not reflect the views of my current or past employers or their clients.**
Hi there ! ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ, నమస్కారం, नमस्ते ! My name is Satish B. Setty, a Bharatiya born in the mercantile Arya Vaishya community. I’m an ordinary tax-paying citizen and a double Masters’ graduate (M.Tech and MBA) by education and profession for the past 20+ years. As an inclusive meritocrat, I associate with people based on their intrinsic merit and skills, irrespective of their identity markers (gender, skin colour, socio-economic class etc.). My interests lie in historical Hinduism, spirituality, Indology, mathematics and linguistics apart from software engineering and business management. Comments and opinions on my articles are welcome. You can submit them to Reddit and tag me the discussion or mail them to me directly: satish.com.in ‹@› mаіl (click on it). Tech and Things --------------- I’ve been using Debian Testing as my desktop daily driver since Etch - from i3 window manager to heavyweights like KDE. Right now, MATE desktop strikes a good balance. VS-Code is a memory hog and unavailable in the terminal. Neovim is not neo enough. And so Emacs it is. Parentheses all the way! I like C, Python and Lisp, but have dabbled with various languages from time to time (C++, Java, Rust, Nim, Zig, Fortran 2k8, Haskell, etc.). This blog is composed in extended Markdown from which Python scripts crunch out HTML. I’m proficient in Kannada and Telugu. Know enough Sanskrit to delight in simple verses from the Ramayana. Can manage broken Hindi. > People: HH Chinnajeeyar Swami, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Richard Stallman, M.K.Gandhi > Books: Mahabharata (Bhagavad Gita), Malgudi Days, The Design of Everyday Things > Music: Ambient, Downtempo, Carnatic instrumental, old Kannada songs > Movies: any good sci-fi > Hobbies: cycling, running > Map projections: Kavrayskiy VII > Winkel Tripel > Robinson > Wagner VI Value System ------------ I do not qualify for any Reservation or Quota, for, the Indian Consitution has permanently boxed me in the ‘General’ category based on my birth alone and it can’t be changed (state-sponsored hereditary segregationism). Hence, I had to work extra hard, relying on my merit alone, to accomplish what I am today. I usually don’t care so much about Hindu religiosity, but do like to live by the principles of Dharma, Ahimsa and Vegetarianism. I’m inclined towards Vaishnava philosophy and occasionally do meditation. My contemplations are on a separate page. As is normal, the older I get the more I’m inquisitive about my roots and heritage. I believe in leading a value-based life where every activity is done with _real_ knowledge of _sharing_. There are five levels of realisation: bodily, familial, societal, environmental and Spiritual. One level should not contradict the other. And one’s work need not be different for different levels. With one action, everything should be attained. In my teenage, I was fortunate to read Swami Prabhupāda’s _Bhagavad Gita As It Is_. It shaped my worldview at a nascent age. However, these days I’m enthusiastic about Sri Vaishnavism of Ramanujacharya, thanks to the teachings of Sri Tridandi Chinnajeeyar Swamiji. His message of spiritual, social and gender equality, anti-discrimination, inclusiveness and _sēvā_ attitude (_kaiṅkarya_) resonates in my heart. > Serve all beings as service to God. Not just service to humans, but pujya jeeyar swamiji emphasises the Vedic principle of service to _all_ beings, living and non-living, i.e., animals, plants and environment included. > Worship your own, respect all. In other words, acknowledge your identity but don’t discriminate against others just based on their identity. Mutual respect (not one-sided “tolerance”) is necessary. As long as one identifies oneself with the bodily attributes (gender, race, ethnicity, caste, etc.), self-realisation is not possible. The essential position of a _jīva_ (living entity) is that of His servitor. As a monolatrous, panentheist realist, this universe is not illusory but a real manifestation of the body of Lord Viṣṇu, who is both transcendent and immanent in it. Can you “see” God? Bhagavad Ramanuja says, yes – the whole world around you is the body of God because He is the indwelling soul (_antaryāmi_) of all creation. Equality is not possible until you focus on the inner spirit self in every living entity. Ideas of equality based on bodily identities (gender equality, caste equality, animal rights, etc.) fail to realise this concept. Other influential teachers have been Sri Aurobindo, Prof. Dr. K.S.Narayanacharya of Karnataka, Swami Dr. Raghavacharya Maharaj of Ayodhya Ramlala Sadan, Swami Rajendra Das Maharaj of Malook Peeth and Sri Hita Premanand Maharaj of Vrindavan. ### Practice You only need to practise few qualities for a fulfilling life: > ahiṃsā-satyā’stēya-brahmacaryā’parigrahā yamāḥ //Yōga-sutra 2.30// Non-injury (_ahiṃsā_), truth, non-stealing, continence, non-possessiveness. > ṡauca-santōṣa-tapaḥ-svādhyāyēṡvarapraṇidhānāni niyamāḥ //Yōga-sutras 2.32// Purity, contentment, austerity, self-study and worship of Īṡvara. > maitrī-karuṇā-muditōpekṣā iti catasraḥ bhāvanāḥ citta-prasādakarāḥ //Sāṅkhya-sutra-bhāṣya 20// Maitrī, karuṇā, muditā and upēkṣā are the four favourite meditations for purifying the thoughts. Maitrī is friendliness towards all who are happy (even to one’s enemies). Karuṇā is compassion towards all who are in distress. Muditā is goodwill towards all persons who are virtuous (even if they are one’s antagonists or of a different persuasion). Upēkṣā is indifference towards the sinful, i.e., not minding the frailties of others. > tasya vācakaḥ praṇavaḥ //Yōga-sutras 1.27// Let us pray to the omniscient, omnipotent and merciful Īṡvara verbally expressed by _praṇava_ (Ōṃ). ### Political views Pursuit of wealth (_artha_) is one of the four pillars of Hinduism, especially when it is used for the collective good. Generally speaking, the implementation of a market economy brings prosperity to its people. But capitalism is not the only form of market economy! * Free markets are too free to abuse workers. * Laissez-faire are too invisible with their hands plundering the environment. * Socialists are too devious – “All the rich are crooks (trust me bro), except myself.” * Liberals are so liberal that they wage wars against nations to donate democracy. * Progressives are so scientific until it negates their snowflake beliefs. * Communists are so equal and united in watching poverty porn together. * Secularists are so secular that Islam is the unsaid state religion. Anyways. A social market economy with emphasis on sustainable ecology is the need of the hour. You can read more about my views here and here. ### Disclaimer Website content is copyrighted © Satish B. Setty and distributed under CC BY-SA International License, with attribution via backlink to the page you took content from, including its title and license notice. **All views expressed on this website are my own and do not reflect the views of my current or past employers or their clients.**
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